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Hi all,
I want to find a job as a RoR developer, but as I have ~10 years coding gap in my CV (I played poker, ran poker forum and did other poker related things) I decided to start some real life projects to build my GitHub portfolio.

LaptopHits.com is the first one.
Idea came to me when two of my friends wanted to buy new laptops and asked me,'the computer guy', for some recommendations. I'm not laptop expert, so I usually ask for price range, display size, brand preferences and check some popular forums for laptop recommendations. To save some time doing this I wrote LaptopHits.com. It should collect all laptop mentions from all online discussions, but for now, as it's just MVP version, online discussion == Reddit comments and laptop mentions == Amazon links.

What do you think about it ?
Ask HN: I Need an English Word for the Italian “Untore”
I'm looking for a close English equivalent to the Italian word "Untore." These were supposedly people who spread the plague deliberately by leaving substances on doorhandles and similar.

https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Untore

An "Infector" is close, but doesn't really feel the same to me, so I thought I'd ask to see if anyone had a better suggestion.

Thank you - hope you don't find this too off-topic, but I'm a great believer in languages being more closely tied to thought than people usually realise, in computer languages as well as "natural" ones.
Yes. Youth of today will will sit in a room that has a TV and watch shows on their phone. TV is like Facebook for them, an artifact left by a previous generation.
In the case of Google fonts, is it legally possible to download the font and serve it from one's own server? The FAQ has a relevant section, but does not answer this question: https://developers.google.com/fonts/faq
Don't know any content references, but find a person in your network that has worked in management consulting, and they can take you through exactly what you need
Focus on real content – maps, charts, pictures – and create it using some better tools outside of Powerpoint. Don’t write everything you plan to say on your slides. The talk is the written content, the slides are visual backup.

Cut the bullet lists. Cut the animated transitions. Cut the clip art, tacky color schemes, overabundance of wacky fonts.

Use text big enough to read. Don’t put too much of it on each slide. Write in complete sentences. If you have more information than easily fits on slides, print it on a handout.

This will both improve your talk, and reduce the amount of work you have to do trying to herd powerpoint into doing anything tricky. All the MS Office products are hilariously bad at doing precise layout work, full of inexplicable and unreproducible bugs. The best approach is to not try too hard with it, you’ll just frustrate yourself. If you keep your layouts exceedingly simple, you have a chance of success.
The disclaimer might be new, but not the product placement. The first season of Netflix's House of Cards, which aired in 2013, had an obnoxious amount. It even made its way into the dialogue, turning one scene into a 10 second ad.

"Is that a PS Vita. What games does he have?"

"All of them."

"I have a console at home that I play to relax. I could use one of these for the car!"

http://www.criticalcommons.org/Members/dsbaldwin32/clips/hou...
How are you managing the Broadlink kit? They're one of the only things that can control my aircon, but the Android app is pretty bad.
Tor has a whole alternative network often labeled "deep web" that is accessible either via tor or Aaron's initiative 'tor2web'.

That's enough to state that there are cases where the access to information is more important than anonymity.

R.I.P. Aaron
This doesn't have anything to do with latency really. It's about predictability. Given the system you described, there are so many edge cases that can potentially compound, that it is impossible to make any predictability guarantees about the system.

As an example, I worked on an embedded system that controlled electrical motors that was hard real time. The fast task time interval was once per millisecond. No matter what, that got called by the RTOS exactly 1000 times per second. When it didn't finish it's job in time, the result could easily wreck real world items or cause harm to people. Nobody even considered using interpreted languages in that project. The fast tasks all had provably run in much less than a millisecond. That means no loops that could be unbounded, no memory allocations, no recursion, no writing to flash, anything that was even slightly unpredictable was out.

So, even if you could prove that your system caused less accidents than a human driver when it was running well, it would be impossible to do an analysis that defined under what circumstances the system would be running well. Given that, it would not be allowed in a well-engineered real time or safety critical system.
Great article on the demographics of sports. NBA is the youngest fan base 45% are under 35 and PGA has the oldest fan base with a 63% are over 55 years old.

MLB has only 24% of it fans under 35 and 50% are over 55 years old.

http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2014/02/which-sp...

"The NCAA demographics for football and basketball are practically identical but they are surprising old (about 40% over 55+) and surprisingly white (about 80%), which clearly has as much to do with who owns a TV rather than who follows the sports."

I say NHL will be the last great cable sport: "The NHL audience is the richest of all professional sports. One-third of its viewers make more than $100k, compared to about 19 percent of the general population."

This is because as a former hockey player in the US it was cost thousands of dollars just for the equipment not even counting the ice fees.

NBA will rule the digital distribution in the future.
If you take the quarterbacks and the absurdly over-paid edge rushers out of the equation, and the NFL average salary starts to come down quite a bit closer to that 500k mark.

Some would argue that that bit of economics is part of what is diluting the product on the field. There is little incentive to keep mid-career, mid-talent guys around, when you can use guys on rookie contracts that are half or a quarter the price, for 75% of the skill. Except there's a lot of deficit in experience and savviness.
I don't doubt that you make code 10x to 1000x faster, but could this be selection bias? I.e., you are focusing on the code that is slow and not the code that the compiler has already had substantial impact on?
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To be honest, the talking about explosions turned me off.

Surely there are more interesting topics to get somebody excited about chemistry?
As long as we have ground wars, we'll have demand for oil (i.e. gasoline). As an energy source, stored gasoline is far more modular and transportable than anything requiring the electric grid. Consequently, it is easier to defend and remains the ideal energy solution for supply lines in battle.

As long as we have air wars, we'll also have demand for oil. The logistics of moving an airforce around the world require floating airfields doubling as standalone fueling stations. How efficient would solar need to be for an aircraft carrier + all of its planes to run on solar?

As long as we have wars fought on the open seas... you get the idea. Oil, as a power source, moves quite easily and this cannot be ignored, strategically.

Militaries and governments know this. As long as we have physical borders that need to be defended, we'll have a demand for oil.
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Since you're fairly experienced with Java I'd stick with that for the back-end. Since you're still learning JavaScript I would recommend doing most UI rendering on the server side, and using JavaScript to add interactivity (e.g. with JQuery). For that approach you could consider Sprint Boot and Play Framework on the server side.

The other alternative would be doing all UI rendering on the browser, via a single-page JavaScript application. A popular choice for that is the React framework. In this case you could use the Dropwizard framework on the server side (although Spring Boot and Play would also work).
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A popular train line out of London has an electrical problem like this with one of the train models run upon it. Whenever these trains, travelling about about 100mph, cross from one power section to the next with the front the train entering one, and the rear leaving the other, there is some weird electrical event that causes a safety mechanism to violently retract the rear pantograph[1] (maybe more than one). This causes an almighty WHACK on the roof which scares the bejesus out of any visitors not used to impact noise. I've seen at least one coffee ejected from a cup onto someones trousers because of this. The train progresses unharmed.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pantograph_(transport)
How much speedup was that "1000x" actually though? Like 2x?
His latest video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vU26Pa6ERkY
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I'm not sure about Netflix, but certainly on Amazon, Hulu, and HBO Go some shows get forced pre-rolls promoting other shows. Contextually it seems relevant but it certainly is a gateway to more ads.

My prediction: once Netflix growth flattens you will see them start making moves towards ads. This is billions and billions of dollars in easy cashflow that probably won't just be left sitting on the table by a public company.
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They also do a really terrible job at actually showing highlights and meaningful analysis these days. It's sort of like when MTV stopped showing music videos.
Also it should be noted that whenever someone raids my home, they'll find the qubes laptop which my ISP will be able to identify as the whonix computer, and therefore I will probably be tortured until I spill out the f*cking hard drive encryption password. That's useless for the tails computers.
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For the vast majority I think it actually the best way, you loose the ability to use animations but one should rarely if ever need to use them. The problem is that if you do presentation and ppt with other people they want to add annotations and make fast changes and this becomes tricky. For the presentation PDF is generally better format since it should be consistent, which ppt certainly isn't.
Based on the literal meaning of the word and its Latin root, I'd say "anointer," but you'd have to explain the intended meaning. There's no equivalent idiom in American English that I know of.

Edited to add a note about the etymology: This word seems to have the Latin word "unguere" as its root, which means "to anoint" in the sense of applying oil (and also in the religious sense of anointment, which generally involves the application of oil). English speakers might recognize "unguent" and "unction" as descendants.

English got "to anoint" from Old French (I think) combining in + unguere, which gives the sense of a lesser application rather than, like, oiling something completely for lubrication.

I was tempted to recommend "unctor," which is a perfectly fine ecclesiastical Latin word that means "anointer" anyway and has a more obvious relationship to "untore," but as a native American English speaker, I don't find it very idiomatic.
[0]Wiktionary mentions "untore" as "plague spreader".
But this might be a little on-the-nose maybe?

[0]https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/untore
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Considering how much money pay per view sporting events are able to charge, there is probably a lot of upside to the price. This could be a lot like movie theater tickets where the viewership plummets, but the audience that remains is paying 4x what they used to for the same thing.
As far as I'm aware, the fonts on Google are just fonts, not owned by Google.

Example:
https://www.fontsquirrel.com/fonts/playfair-display
Playfair Display - "Copyright (c) 2010-2012 by Claus Eggers Sørensen (es@forthehearts.net), with Reserved Font Name 'Playfair'" in the SIL licence right next to the font files.

Therefore yes, you should be able to download them, and use them, according to the original licence. ( Which, by the way, usually required the font creator to be credited, which Google only does when you select it, but not in the served CSSs, which I believe, is not fair. )
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I don't think it's as much ignorance as it is a specific reaction and pushback. I imagine we've all got someone in our social circle who pushes back against "political correctness gone made", or the green agenda or whatever else. Oddly, it's very rarely against the big end of town. Maybe that's because wealth is still something that almost everyone aspires to?

If not that, a feeling of helplessness? You can cut down on beef, but you can hardly convince everyone or stop industry lobbying against the environment.
BAD PowerPoint presentations are for the speaker's benefit. They are just transparent notes. Professors are the most guilty of this with a VERY close second anyone that just is a bad public speaker.

GOOD PowerPoint presentations add to the speaker's presentation and requires more from the speaker and less from the audience. These are very rare. People who are selling you something are the most likely to do this well.
> TV executives don't seem to understand that.

Oh, they completely get that, but this generation of executives are ride-or-die into retirement. They don't care about the future of their companies.

They're going to pick the carcass as long as they can, parachute out with everything, and leave it just in time to go the way of Blockbuster.
> CDN is common enough technique which should be standardized in browsers. HTML should include link to resource hosted by site and its checksum. Now browser can easily use cached resource from any other site with the same checksum or just download it from site.

I really like this idea! Store your heavy assets in a public DHT with each browser storing a part. Then fetch said assets by content-hash if not already in cache.
Maybe disable serving for mobiles.
The W3C needs to get on this!
In effect leap time has been used since the middle on the first millennium BC, the Babylonians discovered the difference between mean solar time and sidereal time and had corrected clocks ever since then. In order to reconcile relative earth surface time with earth mean solar time meant that time had to be inserted or removed somewhere.

In the spirit of DevOps small frequent changes are better than big infrequent changes we have leap seconds instead of leap minutes, hours, days etc. In this way noon is still when the sun is at it's highest (+/- 0.5 relative earth surface seconds).
As you're asking specifically for using powerpoint, I would like to suggest few tips you can use.

Colors:

When choosing colors for presentations, use http://colorhunt.co, http://Coolors.co, or http://colorlovers.com, as you'll find prebuilt color templates that look quite good than the stock colors of powerpoint. This will definitely save you a lot of time on deciding colors.

Fonts:

If you can, install google fonts and use them instead of stock fonts. Most of the stock fonts are overused in the industry (comic sans) and gives your presentations a boring look. You can use http://canva.com/font-combinations for fonts suggestions that go well togather. One for headings and other for content. You can choose a thrid font for comments or captions.

Template:

Here, I would suggest that many other are suggesting. Use your company's provided template. It would be much easier to modify that than to start from scratch and think of something new. Still if you want to use something new, watch a lot of presentations, especially the featured one on Slideshare.

And if Powerpoint is not the only option:
I would highly suggest using http://canva.com for your designing needs. I, from past year, have been using it to design almost everything. From presentations to Infographics and deliverables.

3 benefits I would like to highlight -
1. It is much more flexible than powerpoint to modify, add colors, add pictures, resizing your designs.

2. Provides hundreds of shapes, illustrations, images, few good fonts (for free). This saves a lot of time.

3. Offers multiple free templates to start with.

The major of all is, its free and you can use it anywhere, on home, office. Share the files easily with just a link.

PS: I'm not related to Canva's marketing or anything, I'm just a too happy client of them. I haven't even purchased their premium package as I never felt the need.
Can you elaborate on your statement:

>"Problem here : RPC and promises are radically against message passing."
Knowing who's sharing your content, your real-time visitors, and how long they stay on your website is incredibly actionable stuff. It tells you whether you're creating stuff that has a long-term draw, it tells you about the nature of who links your pages, and it tells you whether one layout or piece of content works better than another. (And you know when a term trends on Google.) You can change your tactics based on your traffic.

When your goal is to attract an audience, that's just standard boilerplate stuff as far as actionable insight goes.

Your privacy concerns are legitimate, but it's hard to consider any of these issues from a black box. You need data—and Google Analytics is the most common way to get that data.
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99.5%+ of browser user agents are something released in 2010 and later that understand TLS 1.2 just fine.
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This looks a lot like another JS library that was posted here previously: http://monkberry.js.org/

Both compile templates to DOM manipulation code.
Also check the day version with different effect
Yes and no.

It was done in a single day, OK, but the train usage data is not "extra data" it is something that is "ordinary data" that you have typically for two to four weeks in advance (as a planning) and daily or at the most weekly afterwards, let alone - in November - the actual usage data for August-October.
Same here. I got a Fitbit Charge HR for father's day this year. It was broken 3 months later. I just haven't had time to deal with contacting them to get a replacement, so, like that, it was over.
Puzzlingly she didn't go to the reef but went to the coral around Keppel Island. I've been up and down the coast a few times and I don't know if the coral at Keppel could ever have been called vibrant. It seemed like a pretty strange choice of location to me.
IANAL but they would not appear to be able to construct a case against you for using the fonts on your own server, since at no point is it stated that such a practice would be in violation of the terms of use.

As you observe, they do not explicitly answer the question, but their reticence should be taken as an implicit green light, encased in a warning about loading times.

Most Google fonts are merely served from their hardware, and not created by them, so the license selected by the font's creator applies. Think of Google Fonts as an aggregator of free-to-use fonts.

There is also a list of fonts and their licenses available from Google Fonts here: https://fonts.google.com/attribution

If you're really concerned, check who created the font and see if they make the font available under a permissive license on their own website. Lato, for instance, is available from its creator's website and is published under the Open Font License.
Money perhaps? She still didn't get anything from the settlement. Maybe she hopes to either speed up the process or she got some money for the interview.
Not really. C is considered high level in digital design. There are some tools for high level synthesis, from languages like C but they aren't used much.

Most Fpga "programming" is a textual description of a directed graph of logic elements in a language like vhdl or Verizon (and now systemverilog).

Synthesis engines have gotten better over the years to allow things like +,* to decribe addition and multiplication instead of describing the logic graph of multiplication.

And most Fpgas now have larger built in primitives like 18x18 multipliers now.

You can judiciously use for-loops for repeated structures.
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The first time you start Firefox, it reads in a whole mess of xul, html, css, and javascript. It parses it all and then dumps it to a binary file that can just be mmap'd back in next time. This is exactly like emacs, except that emacs also dumps out all of its own internal state including the state of the allocator; that makes it more fragile.
Not every believer is a creationist, nor does every creationist blame earthquakes on gay marriage or believe the bible is a history book. By tarring them up like that, you are effectively insulting them by implying all their most extreme examples of faith are linked and hence medieval - and by extension, you're basically implying all Christian beliefs are also medieval.

People are individuals, not strawmen.
But it's good if you just test a bit as a developer. Not to check if a project is valid, but to gain some experience. That way, if you hire as a company, developers more likely have AWS experience than GCE/Azure experience.
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The average might be $2m, but the median is only ~$750k. So if you flatten the payscale then you could probably get to a $500k average with most players not taking too big a paycut.

But let's say you are 15 year old super talents that has every potential to make many millions in the NFL today. Would they still pursue football if they could only make at most 25% of the highest paid players today or would they focus on another sport, and if so which sport might do better in this future? Perhaps baseball or soccer will become more popular since if you're not getting paid a lot why risk the head trauma.
Wow what a digital Sherlock Holmes tale! Beautiful story. Incredibly hard if the data was not visualized that way. I learnt some good things. Thanks for sharing here!
I've heard that's a problem also. The first run will be agreeable, then subsequent runs are continually "optimized" until someone gripes.
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But that's like submitting a link to Adobe's most recent Photoshop update and then tell people "you can download Photoshop for free by starting your Bittorent client".

I would offer a different analogy: "Here's a link to Photoshop, and Adobe will let you use it for free on a 30-day trial".

No-one's cracking the WSJ site, sharing someone else's subscription, or any other dubious behaviour: we're simply saying that "WSJ choose to disable their paywall for visitors referred by Google, so if you wish to avoid their paywall, you can use this practice, which WSJ allow".
That's what I was looking for, thx
This seems to be a way for them to screen for the 1000s of entry level applicants, who don't have large supporting work histories. They need to screen them somehow. One way is "Only from this list of schools." Another is "Based on what some person thinks of your resume writing ability as a new engineering grad." Another is "Based on what our algorithm thinks of your ability to place keywords in your resume." I don't think this is that much worse an alternative for those who may not have other means to get into a prestigious company.

When I was last in school I struggled with "networking your way into a company" and wound up landing my internship (and ultimately full employment) on the one company who offered a test before the "Fly you out to meet us" step.