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Are you sure that GRUB2 saves the config as a binary? I think on my Arch update-grub generates /boot/grub/grub.cfg which looks somewhat similar to good old menu.lst.
A laboratory experiment on fruit flies is also described a bit further down the page.
More than when I worked retail.

If I looked at when I used to do customer-facing work. I could get by on four hours a night. Show up with blood shot eyes and bumble through the day without any fear of messing up.

Since my development career has taken off I can't go less than 9 hours of sleep. It seriously impacts my work performance to not have a full night's rest and I will even stop work and go home for a nap (or hit the gym, seems like a 50/50 which will work to pep up the energy) if I start feeling my internal engines roaring down.

I have done some late night commits. I do wake up in the middle of the night with a burning idea. I occassionally stay up to work on a personal project but I can only afford to do that maybe once or twice a month. I do sometimes miss the days of menial service industry work where I could just stay up and binge-watch a show on Netflix, read a novel cover-to-cover, or code through the night on a personal project knowing that being exhausted at work wouldn't ding me on the next review.
Maybe, but more downvotes were for the initial comment
LastPass's Chrome (and Firefox and IE) extension is a big part of their product and they definitely have some revenue.
AutoCAD has an free education version:

http://www.autodesk.com/education/free-software/all

Very easy to obtain, but it can't be used for commercial applications obviously.

There's also OpenSCAD (GPL):

http://www.openscad.org
You don't know much about evolution, it seems
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The information revealed was: forced real name and existence of page.

I do not want the existence of a profile to be known. I do not want social networks, search engines, and government organizations crawling and recording information from a profile page connected directly to my cellphone.

I explained this: on Facebook, if you click a link to my profile it will say "sorry this link is invalid".

If you click it on Google, despite my best attempts, it will say "Hey, this user exists, here is their full name, oh, they don't share anything else with you".

That's an invasion of my privacy, to me, to have a public page that resolves and identifies me against my will.

The fact that you're OK with 700 automated bots crawling a blank profile shows me that you don't respect your own information and data and are okay with literally dozens of organizations collecting personal information about you without your permission or knowledge. What do you think those 700 clicks are? People hitting a blank profile? They're bots, and they're data harvesters. The existence of a profile is great information to help build more complete profiles of me, my devices and accounts, and ultimately my browsing history, locations, purchasing histories, advertising history, etc.
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...but that doesn't mean that's what they do.
Ok fair enough. But, if I were you, just to be 100% excited about this strategy, I'd ask myself these questions:

1. Am I measuring the quality of the email addresses before an after the introduction of the popup?

2. Am I measuring the number of visitors who abandoned my site (closed my page) immediately after I interrupted their visit with my popup?

Ultimately, the question ought to be: what am I really measuring? Is it the number of new rows in my emails table or the impact on brand perception and ultimately bottom line?
What's "recent" about that trend? It goes back at least the six years I've been here.
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Agreed. My point is that back then, most console versions of arcade games were "watered down" software ports after the fact. PlayChoice 10 was one of the first, more popular exceptions to this (the software remained practically unchanged).
This is very interesting, there is definitely a big opportunity for CAD software that does things differently. A lot of the supposedly 'BIM enabled' and 'parametric' CAD software in use in the construction industry suffers from over defined and inflexible representations of real world objects, which often fail in the edge cases. I don't think software should be defining what it thinks a wall or a slab is or how they connect to each other, I think they should be giving architects and engineers better tools for defining and categorising these things ourselves.
a, b = {a: 1, b: 2}.values
I thought the lesson was "adding generics after the point where you have to care about backwards compatibility is fraught with peril".
Glad to see they are requiring Java 8. Should make writing play applications in Java a lot nicer.
this. I've been looking for something to replace facebook messenger to use with my friends. Whatever it is, it would need mobile push notifications. Currently I'm using tinfoil facebook so not getting push messages causes me to miss long portions of conversations in my group chat and I don't want to just use another service, I'd rather host it
I really liked that part. You don't really get the feel for how fast this giant bot is moving and jumping until you see some humans struggling to keep up with it.
That’s a really boring opinion that is tremendously uninteresting and completely unsurprising. I do not know why anyone feels the need to express an opinion so utterly boring and predictable. It’s just cliche, zero substance.

I mean, if you think something is not interesting why add to that uninterestingness by saying something that itself is so utterly uninteresting.

I’m really a fan of amateur thinking and talking about art because I am also quite clueless about art (contemporary and all other art), so I think it’s great to talk about it even if you are clueless, but I do try to avoid clichés and if I don’t get something I assume that I either don’t know the context (context does tremendous things to elevate all human endeavors and can make something that seems superficially boring or worthless very interesting) or that there really is nothing to it – but I don’t really possess the ability to judge what’s what.

I think that’s a very reasonable assumption to make when looking at contemporary art and you are clueless about art – and you also avoid dealing in clichés as a result.
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And another post that shows more clearly that you don't know much about what evolution is
If you separate each account's folders/inbox into a separate sqlite database, with the accounts/configuration in another, it probably wouldn't be to bad at even moderate scale.

But for < 100 users one sqlite db would probably be sufficient. (on a relatively fast drive/ssd)
"I think the original intent of the spec was to allow some flexibility... in practice supporting this flexibility lead to some vulnerabilities."

This statement applies to roughly half of all security issues I have ever seen.

I'm not making a joke or being flippant, and it reenforces what you need to consider when designing specs or APIs. Specs have surface area just like code does, and decreasing it often has positive outcomes for security.
>He calls for a moritorium until we can get a neural net to learn Asimov's 1st Law.

Consider the worst things that governments will do to get an advantage. I mean the downright most inhumane things they have actually done.

Now given this, what chance is there that they will respect a moratorium on research. If violating basic human rights for a small advantage is part of their MO, then it would be foolish to think that a lesser breach of ethical obligations for a greater advantage would not happen.

All we would achieve by a moratorium is a slight slow down in how soon governments access this technology while locking the technology away from access by the general public.

That said, the ability for government militaries to become autonomous and not made up of individuals who have at least some chance of resisting the worst orders is a very scary notion.

We may be approaching the next Great Filter.
I hate when they have an |X| in the corner to close it, but that |X| is just part of the popup, so it takes you to the other page, as though you wanted to click the ad.
Those are called "exit intent" popups. The idea is this: If the person is about to close the page anyway, why not take a shot at offering them something? There's nothing to lose.
The problem is in identifying the best people, especially when there might not be a strong correlation between things like academic performance or and entrepreneurial success.

It seems like screening for people who can build an MVP and a compelling pitch deck could be one of the best ways to do this.
Pretty amazing effort, very clean UI and works flawlessly so far...
Seems about right, maybe my memory tricked me. Thanks.
The answer to this question is the same as the answer to all business questions on HN: copy how patio11 does it. http://www.kalzumeus.com/blog/
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Well, maybe. I guess it depends on how you look at it. There are angels who spread their risk significantly and invest in a ton of startups (think, Ron Conway).

Then there are wealthy individuals/families (e.g. Bill Gates, or the Walton family) who have less formal investing guidelines but occasionally back good entrepreneurs. This could be through seed capital, growth capital, or capital for a private equity style leveraged buyout. Raising capital this way is much more about relationships than the VC game is. It's a lot less formal. These people usually want to (help you) build sustainable companies, nit you're not really competing against a ton of other people/deals (like you are with VC firms). Even if someone came to them with a decent idea, they probably wouldn't back them.
Yeah, so?

If you have to ask, I can't explain it to you.
Sounds nice. Just yesterday I saw another version of not too intrusive popup - it came after about 20 seconds at the bottom right, not obscuring the content, but noticable (some animation, don't remember exactly), and in the popup the headline was "Hey, at least it's not centered" or something like that. I actually smiled at that, so it got a positive initial impression. I didn't sign up because I wasn't that interested in the content of the site, but still nicely done.
Since I browse, search, and watch videos on my phone, they have a decent amount of that information. But where Google will correlate all of that data in order to show me advertisements, Verizon will modify my traffic to make me more trackable and then sell my data to other advertisers.
That sounds right. A robot has to sense something in its environment, then control something based on that measurement. Its not a high bar: even your thermostat is a robot.
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Are we looking at the same thing? [1] I'm not seeing this at all. The only thing I see is about the history of SMB.

[1] https://www.nintendo.co.uk/games/oms/mario30/index.html
Considering that when I found some large holes and reported them I was then harassed by the FBI and given nothing... I think hackers should exploit the holes and then sell them to the highest bidder.

Helping protect people just gets you harassed.
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When I met one of those I felt like I just received a license to say I speak 5 languages.

The 1st: my mother tongue.

The 2nd: I'm native-level, studied all my life, use it everyday.

The 3rd: I'm somewhere between advanced-survival and fluent-colloquial depending on my BAC; spoken in the country I live in so I don't put that much effort.

The 4th: just basic knowledge but really closely related to the 1st, so communication is fluent even if I'm making up words and abusing the rules of grammar.

The 5th: I study it every day since over a year, I speak retarded and understand correctly pronounced simple phrases 60% of the time. Can survive in the countries where it's spoken and it's a nice perk with people; they become surprisingly friendly because very few people speak the language other than natives.
>this is no different than what every species on this planet has been doing for a few billion years now.

You might want to ask those species how that worked out for them. Also, consider how slow the change use to be compared to the life expectancy of the species.
Are you seriously attempting to discredit evolution as a science based on one word in the title of a single book?

You don't need a definition of "species" to understand or work with evolution.
I don't understand the suggestion that cooperation and complex social systems are the province of primates. Haven't they heard of dogs, cats, pigs, deer, or the countless other animals that hunt or defend themselves cooperatively, and which have complex hierarchies in group behavior?
Yes, voting is compulsory (required by law) in Brazil. Citizens can also cast a null/blank ballot if they feel that the candidates on the ballot should not be elected. Despite this, only 76% of citizens actually voted in the last presidential election. 69% of the population voted for one of the candidates, only 7% voted null/blank. [1]

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brazilian_general_election,_20...
Erlang and Python have destructuring as well - it's a pretty established shorthand.
I wrote:

> (And yes, I know that UTF-8 is self-synchronizing. But that doesn't help with the problem I'm talking about, and if you think it does then you haven't understood the problem.)

I would like to retract this, and apologize for the snarky tone. I had mis-remembered the design of UTF-8, and so pretty much everything I said was wrong (well, not all of it was wrong, but the parts that weren't were exactly what you were saying).

I'd edit or delete my comment if I could, but the deadline has passed so this is the best I can do.
Your real name, apart from almost certainly not being unique, isn't private information anyway, so no privacy is being lost.

> The fact that you're OK with 700 automated bots crawling a blank profile shows me that you don't respect your own information and data and are okay with literally dozens of organizations collecting personal information about you without your permission or knowledge.

"blank profile" ... "personal information" -- this isn't even coherent.

> without your permission

They implicitly have my permission to crawl anything I allow to be public. That's what making something public means!
Thanks, this advice will definitely help. I know he's open to feedback so I'll make sure to be proactive.
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That's actually exactly what you can already do with cmail ;)

Each user can optionally be assigned a "user database", storing only the mails in her own inbox (which also allows users to have direct control over their own mail database).

If this is not used, mail is stored in the master database.

As you said, most normal deployments should not run into those limits, but its worth keeping them in mind.
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You're missing the point here. Slice works with only part of the compound about to be ripped apart. However, destructuring with commas is generic. Example that has no simple slice method call:

let [,second,,fourth,,sixth]
I guess improving XMPP isn't as cool as building something brand new?
> How to persuade the CEO to remain focus on his role...

This is a classic instance of Managing Up. Stuart Diamond has some solid advice in this area; turn every instance of potential conflict into an instance of advisement. He often uses a disarmingly simple conversation starter "Are you happy?"

Recommend his book. Here's his presentation @ Google; which covers a lot of the content > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZOZo6Lx70ok
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Corporate profits plunged by $125B, how can the WSJ spin that as "U.S. corporate profits rebounded in the first quarter of the year."? From the actual press release:

"Profits from current production (corporate profits with inventory valuation adjustment (IVA) and
capital consumption adjustment (CCAdj)) decreased $125.5 billion in the first quarter, compared with a
decrease of $30.4 billion in the fourth.

Profits of domestic financial corporations decreased $2.6 billion in the first quarter, compared with a decrease of $12.5 billion in the fourth. Profits of domestic nonfinancial corporations decreased $100.4 billion, in contrast to an increase of $18.1 billion. The rest-of-the-world component of profits decreased $22.4 billion, compared with a decrease of $36.1 billion. This measure is calculated as the difference between receipts from the rest of the world and payments to the rest of the world. In the first quarter, receipts decreased $28.9 billion, and payments decreased $6.5 billion."

Or, in an actual graph:

http://i.imgur.com/YidRIWh.jpg
Except getting your site on a junkware blacklist.
...and this is another one of the reasons why I keep JavaScript off by default.
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Why is state and local government spending counted as negative for GDP?
Honestly, most of the time when I'm reading something and I get a half-way popup like that, or a popup after I click the 2nd page of a multi-page article, I just leave. I find it almost disrespectful to the user.
and to be accurate, Vs Super Mario Bros (the arcade release) is different from the home version. The levels are harder. The difficulty ramp as you progress is much steeper. It's actually a very fun version of SMB because of the changes.
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I read this a few years ago in university, Carleton University Bachelor of Commerce Information Systems Concentration. One of my favorite course material readings that I 'had to read'.

I would recommend it to anyone who works in the IT world and especially to any new CIOs out there.

Edit: especially to any new and old* CIOs out there.
This is really good! Love the clean style. We tried to do something similar a while ago with http://www.zonino.co.uk although we scraped the jobs from startups sites which works quite nicely. Haven't updated for a ages though. You could consider doing something similar. I echo the comments about location filters! Please make that a priority!
Even after all of this quantitative easing ? Makes me wonder what will happen once it's stopped.

EDIT:
I'm also talkin about the extremely low interest rates or basically ZIRP. There's really not much more the FED can do. But if this means that the era of zero interest rates is here to stay for longer then the party in Silicon valley is about to get even wilder.

I'd like the opinion of some people more knowledgeable about economics as to why recovery is taking so long. It's already 7 years since the crash. How long could it potentially take ?

It's not like this state of affairs can last forever can it?
There was the Playchoice release and also Vs Super Mario Bros. Vs Super Mario Bros is a true arcade version of SMB, which had harder and different levels from the home version.

http://www.mariowiki.com/VS._Super_Mario_Bros. (You need to manually add the trailing period, HN is stripping it)
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bringing back portfolio sites in a very simple way. great tool for getting inspired.
Secular stagnation. Basically, what happened to Japan in the previous decades is now going to happen to much of the developed world. A prolonged period of no growth with no monetary policy tools to help solve the problem, and no political will to implement a more active fiscal policy.
Since Google owns Boston Dynamics, perhaps this has been 'spun out' or is otherwise detached. There are some pretty strict IP rules in Google and at MIT so it would make sense to spin this out. But either way it is confusing to have the same name on a robot that looks the same but with two different parent institutions.
I love when it s a persistent bar that occupies 30% of the device screen and can't be dismissed. Saves me a lot of time o would have wasted on reading the page, I just close.
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A lot of this centers around what proficiency means. With a few weeks of training you can be a tourist in a foreign city just fine. Getting to the proficiency of a native 10 year old is vastly harder. Another huge jump is having the language skills to get a job more complex than dishwasher in another language. Not to mention being a poet.

IMO, basic proficiency is simply the ability to communicate unaided with effort on both parties. Which really only takes the language skills of ~5-7 year old native child.
You find them annoying, but your customers probably wont.

Remember you are not the best case when deciding what is effective at capturing your audience. You are more "internet savvy" or whatever...

Popups, email marketing, retargeted ads, et al are very, very effective means of capturing an audience online.
How many of those 232 signed up because they want to receive e-mails from you, and how many signed up because they thought they had to in order to proceed?

If you put up a prompt saying "enter your e-mail address" then a lot of people will obey regardless of your reason for prompting. Most computer users don't really understand computers and have no idea when a site would legitimately require an e-mail address and when a site just wants it so they can send you spam. This is especially true when you use a popup that blocks access to the page. It would be easy to assume that signing up is required in order to continue reading the page.
The article says the magnets pulse at 15 Hz. And most of the video is sped up, so it would look extremely jittery.
There's no way I finish reading anything that pops up halfway through. That's just more callous manipulation of my browser. I leave instantly. If the back button doesn't work, I kill it.

How many of those 11,848 people didn't finish your article? Do you care?
I studied math & physics - never took a CS class. I have made my way to a lead frontend engineer position in under 2 1/2 years, and I am courted by many companies. For me, the ability to solve problems quickly without oversight has proven to be valuable. It took a lot of hard work to get to that point, but I am absolutely of the opinion that a CS degree is not necessary. In fact, I once roomed with one who apparently couldn't find a job coding for a living & was not particularly intelligent.
Which is why the popup is actually a timesaver to tell you the content isn't worth reading.
It's not. They're saying that that spending decreased, contributing to a decline in GDP.
> You might piss off one person, but 10 more sign up. You decide if it's worth it or not.

The current top post says he has a 1.96% success rate.

So it's more like "piss off 98 people, sign up 2". I'm not convinced that's worth it.
How many of those 232 have generated revenue?
Sadly, sometimes it IS worth reading.