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Interesting that you mention Star Wars, because it's one of the few franchises that has been able to continually reinvent itself over the years, while raking it in from various video games, comic books, furniture etc.

Angry Birds tried to do the same. A few years ago you couldn't walk past a park or school without seeing a kid in an Angry Birds shirt or carrying one of those goody stuffed pigs. Only problem is that they milked the franchise without letting it evolve, or invest the profits in other opportunities (they tried, but how can you go from mega-hit to fresh start and hit the same lightning rod twice?). Just like that tacky wall-mounted singing fish, Angry Birds had a typical product lifetime, and Rovio should have expected their one trick pony to obey the currents of time.
To this point, I am a car guy, I was a car salesman for many years, and always had a nice car. A few years ago when I moved to Seattle, I decided to take a chance on public transit and Uber and decided to only have a single car for my family of four. It worked out! I actually can't stand to even drive anymore, and when my wife and I go out we try to avoid driving ourselves whenever possible. We still need the vehicle for long trips and for things like going to home depot, but it gets driven far less. I've also found myself taking the bus to destinations I normally wouldn't because the bus stop is a few miles from where I want to be, knowing that when I arrive I can get an Uber for the last little leg of the trip.
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Huh, the youtube link says "This video has been removed as a violation of YouTube's policy against spam, scams, and commercially deceptive content."
As many others may be discovering today, the Free App of the Day is gone and all free apps are moved to "Amazon Underground". According to Amazon, these are special editions of apps that don't even include in-app purchases. Their statement says they worked out an arrangement with developers to pay them per-minute the app is used and Amazon picks up that charge.This is a separate section on Amazon.com and requires a separate Android app.

link: http://www.amazon.com/b/ref=nav_shopall_adr_banjo?ie=UTF8&no...

More information on how they made the apps free: https://www.amazon.com/gp/feature.html?ie=UTF8&docId=1003016...

Edit: to add more information as discovered.
Cloaking for testing new screen sizes? It's a beta, after all.
> I run web crawlers for fun and profit

Not my fun and profit, though.
This is very good news (that there is a fight). Open sourced currency that could be forked at any moment is a feature not a bug.

The fact that government currencies can't be forked, and thus never guarantee they stay competitive, is the main reason a bitcoin like currency is nearly certainly the future.

The downside is some medium/long term uncertainty in that exact currency. However this is a NECESSARY component.
The only quirk to me is using "much" to modify an adjective ("feasible"), which in my experience (admittedly southern American English) a native speaker would not choose to do.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Determiner
(If you want to hate English slightly more :-) )
Distros are undeniably becoming more alike thanks to systemd, but from this premise does not in any way follow that package interoperability will be improved, which was the topic at hand.

(To be pedantic, there is no "standardization" so to speak of. It's more like an informal fiat than anything.)
If you upgrade VirtualBox to 5.0+ it shouldn't kernel panic anymore
I think it's much more likely that s' is and has always been incorrect, but the error is so frequently committed that it has become "correct". Language does evolve, after all.

Snark: Given the current rate of apostrophe-abuse, I look forward to the apostrophe merging with the S at the end of words to form a new final-S character, which eventually usurps S entirely re'sulting word's that were 'spelled wrong becoming correct, and creating very weird form's of po's'se's'sive noun's: Jame's''s.
I think they did try that - I loved the Rovio game Retry, which was a tiny plane flying through a Sonic-The-Hedgehog-like world, with a Flappy Bird mechanic and a retro 80s synthpop aesthetic:

http://www.rovio.com/en/our-work/games/view/71/retry

Levels were split into checkpoints (ala Sonic), and you could save your place at a checkpoint by either watching a video ad, spending a coin (collected in game or bought with real money), or you could fly on and get a bonus for completing a level without any saved checkpoints. I'm not much of a gamer, but I've apparently spent nearly 15 hours playing Retry (yikes).
It is the same issue with pay day loans. What is the alternative when someone needs the money now: to tell them no and that they just have to face the consequences of not having the money now?
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Huge improvements to $TECHNOLOGY are always "just around the corner".
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It was eerily disturbing. I can understand removing it, I wouldnt doubt it broke the rules.
As a counter-example, Supercell is extremely successful with Hay Day and Boom Beach besides Clash of Clans.

Maybe it isn't all just luck.
Kids, that's why.
I think this stigma and bigotry is an SF Bay Area thing. Or at any rate, I have never seen it here in Seattle. Plenty of well-off Amazon employees on the bus every morning.

I wonder if it has to do with the Bay Area being so spread out and car-centric, that only quite lower-class people don't have cars. Just a hypothesis from an outsider.
Use StartSSL[1], or self-signed certificates if you just use HTTPS for admin access to some of your sites. You can easily find many online tutorials on how to setup TLS/SSL on your web server after a bit of googling, such as this one[2] on the DigitalOcean community site.

P.S. Judging from your username, it seems like you have played agar.io too much. :)

[1] http://www.startssl.com

[2] https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-set-...

Edit: If you can wait until November this year, use Let's Encrypt[3] when it is generally available to the public. At this moment you can also use CloudFlare, which provides free SSL branded as "Universal SSL" if you use their CDN.

[3] https://letsencrypt.org/2015/08/07/updated-lets-encrypt-laun...
It's funny because that's a general sentiment among Sanders supporters. They like the way he sounds but don't really follow politics. The reality is his policy isn't all that good. It's just very utopian sounding so people love it. Take his Free College For all Bill. It sounds nice doesn't it? Free College for all! I can support that! But in reality it's quite flawed. Beyond the fact that it's just a new 50 billion dollar tax (and the expectation that States will cover the other 20 billion) applied wholesale over the current 70 billion dollars in tuition paid by public college school students, it's got some really questionable clauses that would undoubtedly raise prices.

Here are some choice requirements put on the schools:
(6) provide an assurance that not later than 5 years after the date of enactment of this Act, not less than 75 percent of instruction at public institutions of higher education in the State is provided by
10 tenured or tenure-track faculty;

(B) Increasing the number and percentage of full-time instructional faculty.

(C) Providing all faculty with professional supports to help students succeed, such as pro-
9 fessional development opportunities, office
10 space, and shared governance in the institution.

(D) Compensating part-time faculty for work done outside of the classroom relating to instruction, such as holding office hours.

(E) Strengthening and ensuring all students have access to student support services such as academic advising, counseling, and tutoring.

On top of that it actually states states must:

ensure that public institutions of higher education in the State maintain per-pupil expenditures on instruction at levels that meet or exceed the expenditures for the previous fiscal year;

Even if the 70 billion dollars in taxes comes, how are states supposed to support all of this 10+ years down the line? There are absolutely no cose saving measures in his plan. It is all just utopian fluff.

Source (worth the read): http://www.sanders.senate.gov/download/collegeforall/?inline...
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Would disagree.

The thing that a sizable amount of cancer research funds should focus on is preventation of telomere extension. Selectively or periodically turn off all mechanisms of telomere extension, which covers telomerase activities and ALT, the alternative lengthening of telomeres processes. All cancers abuse telomere extension in order to thrive, it is required for rapid cellular replication. Normal cells are not so much in need of it, so turn it all of for some period of time until the cancer is gone then restore telomere extension capabilities. This will work for all cancer types.

Telomerase interdiction can be achieved via RNAi or similar methods, while the hurdle to blocking ALT is that it isn't well understood at this time; the targets till need to be listed and understood. It will probably be the case that targeting telomere extension interdiction to cancer cells will be superior or even necessary, but fortunately selective targeting of cancer cells is a going concern in research, with considerable progress achieved already and more in the works.
>> They covered up the problem without handling it.

Exactly. Taking anti-depressants lifelong for depression is like taking painkiller lifelong for toothache. Unfortunately healing is not as profitable as selling drugs. Because of this it can be really hard to find a doctor who is interesed in healing you instead of in your money.

Edit: I forgot to write about the alternative solutions. Two of them are discussed in the followig books:

- A Guide to the Good Life: The Ancient Art of Stoic Joy by William B. Irvine

- How I Found Freedom in an Unfree World by Harry Browne
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Ask HN: Anyone moved to uncommon country? How was the experience?
For software people, US is the top choice followed by Australia, Germany, UK etc. Has anyone moved to a country that is not in this list? How did it turn out?

In other words, are there countries to move to, that have less immigration headaches and are more friendly (like these - you can work for yourself, climate is decent, internet is decent, it is not super expensive etc)?
Ask HN: What do most startups use for IT support?
Do they use some sort of service, internal team, or do it themselves?
I'm genuinely curious why you like him. I don't really understand the appeal because whenever I listen to him speak it is along the lines of 'we have people starving and oh we have millionaires.' Okay, great so what? Should we not have either? How does one fix the other?

Anyways, I've been asking people who like him to really explain because I don't get it and often just see 'he speaks truth, you are an idiot if you don't get it'. Um okay.
Uh no, the end game is autonomous logistics; getting someone or something from point A to point B. More automation is good, we're sorely lacking in automation.

The real issue is distribution of profits. If the money gained stays at the top levels and doesn't move around much, you get stagnation and a poorer standard of living.
Eh, there will be community supported LD_LIBRARY_PATH wrappers, effectively making it run on "linux" even of they only support ubuntu.

I'll take that over zero linux support anyday. Usually it's pretty easy to make these things run by yourself too. ldd the binary, fetch the missing libraries and/or grab the ubuntu packages set the library path and you're done.
Or possibly saves power, if work is being offloaded from the CPU.
Who would approve the percentage? This seems to be very similar to the deal they are suing about right now. Next up they file suit against the lawyer for taking too big a cut?
Good examples, but I would be willing to bet that at some point all those things have been covered by different patents. The company who patented a chair rocking mechanism would not be affected by the inventor who made a door with soft springs (although I have never seen a door that works exactly that way).
I find the wording interesting. Either that's a default message applied to things outside the described scope, or someone at youtube thought that video was fake.
348 according to http://www.quora.com/Airbnb-in-2015/How-many-front-end-engin..., assuming all 'nerds' are engineers, which usually isn't true of course, but http://nerds.airbnb.com makes me think maybe they are.
Why other Lisp tutorials don't teach -> is, firstly, that other Lisp's don't have that, except as some add-on library feature. Secondly, it's a syntactic sugar that has quite a bit going on under the hood: implicit parameters, a lambda function being expressed as #(+ % 2) with this % thingy, and return values of forms being passed as arguments to other forms that are not syntactically enclosed. You have to understand that (range 10) is just called normally, but then its return value becomes an extra invisible argument to the (map ...) form.

Newcomers should learn the underlying ordinary evaluation first.
Because you wouldn't have to code all these drivers to make the result an useful OS?

Writing a driver framework compatibility layer is quite a separate and doable activity from adopting an entire kernel. Haiku actually does have some FreeBSD driver compatibility, and then efforts like DDE have been around for running Linux 2.6 drivers on other systems. More recently rump kernels.

You're being rude.

You're being ignorant.

Well its depends whether your goal is to have an OS running in very few configurations or if your goal is to have an OS which is able to be run by many.

Absolute nonsense, as elaborated above.
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Lebanon has a similar thing. Stand by the highway, get in the next private bus/van that comes by, pay the driver $1-$2 when you get off at your destination. You can go anywhere in the country for $2; it's amazing.
I've heard a nice explanation of the difference between learning English and learning German:

The rules of English are relatively simple but there are a ton of exceptions that take a long time to get right and will give it away you're not a native speaker.

German doesn't have as many exceptions so you can easily reach near-native levels of fluency once you know all the rules, but there are far more rules you need to be aware of (and even then you'll need to keep track of grammatical gender).

In other words, you can learn German by simply following all the rules and memorizing the vocabulary, but it's far easier to do for English (where you'll miss a ton of exceptions if you only do that).

Let's just say I'm happy I'm a native German speaker already -- I probably couldn't be bothered to become as fluent in it as I'm in English as a second language.
What I've experienced as someone who has helped onboard new-hires is that we meet with the new-hire daily for a week or two, and throughout that process if we find documentation has gotten stale the mentor usually updates it (e.g., yeah, our baseline OS has changed to xyz, what is here is old, here's where you get the bits for the new stuff), because the new-hire probably has no idea how to fix it yet.
> Even if you don't allow them to be sold off, nothing is stopping someone from entering an agreement where they have to pay the same amount monthly to a person X in exchange for a lump sum received now. So they still receive their checks but they have to pay that money to someone anyway.

Such an arrangement would be an unsecured personal loan, which would not survive a bankruptcy filing.

This is why you see commercials on late-night TV for structured settlement cash-outs, but you don't see commercials offering to pay you a lump sum in return for handing over your Social Security payments.

The Social Security system pays out $700 billion in benefits each year. The entire structured settlement market is only about $6 billion a year. However, Social Security payments cannot be assigned, and structured settlements can.

These companies don't want to give out unsecured loans to poor people with lead poisoning who don't have jobs. They want to pay pennies on the dollar for a guaranteed stream of payments.
Who provides the lawyer? The company? They'll shop around til they find one in their favor. The individual? Good luck being able to find a lawyer, but here are some brochures from the company with lawyers we recommend. A government regulations entity? Now let's add regulatory capture to the mix.
For those that want something close today, there's https://pypi.python.org/pypi/say

fmt("Hello, {name}! You have {len(msgs)} waiting.")

Interpolates local variables and expressions. It uses the format method, and has all of format's output formatting.
He didn't have to. "My last laptop had a latch you had to slide to open," would have sufficed.

It is just like the iPhone. The patent is as absurd as would be 'rotate the door handle to enable the door to open (on a computer)' or 'toggle the light switch from the bottom position to the top position to turn on the lights (on a computer)' or 'slide the slider one way to increase the volume, and the other way to decrease the volume (on a computer)' or 'push the brake pedal to apply the braking mechanism (on a computer)'... etc^3
Uber isn't a ride-sharing service - it's a ride-hailing service. The only thing that makes people want to use Uber over a Yellow Cab is that with Uber I open an app, click "Request Uber," the app shows me where the cab is, gives an accurate time of their arrival, and gives me information about my driver. You want to compete with Uber? Those are fairly straight-forward features to add to existing cab-hailing apps. Uber's technological advantage can thus be nullified easily, leaving it only to compete on price. Plus, taxis have an advantage because of the heavier regulation around taxis making them (theoretically) safer.

The sooner the world's cabs companies beef up their technology infrastructure the sooner this upheaval will stop. There will be no further privatization of public transport assuming the taxi companies realize this soon. Oh, and cab medallions are already privately owned.
if passing array by reference to an external function means 'deliberately getting rid of' the size information...
Just glancing at the article, it struck me how similar this picture from the article is:
http://pop.h-cdn.co/assets/15/35/1440426015-desalinization-2...

To an 1880's Ogden cigarettes card demonstrating how to make an emergency filter inside of a bucket:
http://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/510d47da-d09a-a3d9-...

150 years later, and the method is pretty much identical.
What exactly is a "political expert"?
Even so, Angry Birds 2 has a level of polish that makes the original look like some indie side project. If there's such thing as a AAA casual game, this is it.

Which really shows how sad this business is -- a true sequel to a smash hit that goes way beyond the original sells so poorly that it leads to mass layoffs.
Binary compatibility is certainly a major issue but I think you are downplaying the compatibility headaches introduced by the way each distributions are solving the same issues with slightly different methods. I'm thinking of: logging, default character sets, locale, timezones, mount points & encrypted block storage, basic OS versioning information, networking, service management, networking. And I'm forgetting a plethora of others areas.
There were/are attempts to have standardization around some this, like the FHS or the LSB for example. But it's hard to argue that systemd was far more successful into bringing a semblance of order than any past attempts. There's still a long way to go.

The general lack of compatibility between distributions usually leads software publishers to packaging and testing only one or two versions of their software. The community will then try to repackage it for other distributions.
When the apps are not 100% open-source, it usually leads to huge delays for updates and broken packages after a while.
Kate Heddleston is freaking awesome, if you don't know. Her talk at Pycon 2015 about diversity in engineering environments is fantastic. Well explained in language free of activist rhetoric -- it was a pragmatic and thoughtful speech. Her blog expands on much of what she covers and should be read.

On the topic of on-boarding -- super important to get right! The idea of making your people the best they can be is lost, I think, on our generation. My grandfather-in-law was a mechanical engineer at Chrysler back in the day when they had a special school they ran to train their new recruits. When he started he had no idea of how cars worked but they picked him up from school and gave him the training he needed to become an important figure in their company.

Focusing on hiring the best because hiring someone mediocre will damage your business is negative thinking that can kill your on-boarding, and thus your culture and business. I've worked at places with terrible on-boarding and it was a fight just to get some direction and support for your work. Getting the attention of management was something you wanted to avoid which led to people becoming complacent about their work and its quality.

Great article. On-boarding is important to get right.
That doesn't matter to most of America. They hear "socialist", "social something", and they are going to be against it.
i think this only works on snapdragon processors with fastcv. i tested this on snapdragon dev kits 2 years ago.
Bernie Sanders is a socialist,[1] and social democracy is a type of socialism.[2] That blog you linked to is, at best, advocating a very idiosyncratic use of terminology.

1: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/11...
2: http://www.britannica.com/topic/social-democracy
My assumption is that's just their default message. I've seen videos removed for similar reasons as well as essentially being pornography and as I recall the message is always the same unless it's a copyright issue.
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I studied at Northwestern University for several years but lost interest towards the end and dropped out of school 3 times. The last time I reapplied back about 3 years ago I got denied a visa and was told to only reapply back when my personal circumstances have improved a lot. Once i got denied a visa, I am no longer eligible to travel there under the visa waiver program if remember correctly. So unless I build some really great company that USA really needs or become really really rich and invest tons of money in America to become US citizen through the investor immigrant program , I am fucked !!
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