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CRAZY THOUGHT: If this http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2011/Aug/76 , then they might have network access to Facebook?
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Wow, what'd they do to the slide rule?
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According to BMI, 95-100kg are all in the normal range. Top of the normal range, but all in normal

BMI is weight in kg / height in m squared, 18.5 – 25 is normal. So for >200cm, even 100kg is in normal.

That doesn't mean he's bodybuilder lean, but that DOES mean his weight is in a reasonable range.

Now at the same time, he's eating total crap foods. I'm sure in a few years, he could be facing some weight gain, but the idea he's even a little overweight is off.
Darn, someone in the comments section of the post beat me to the best zinger of all. Please see Joel's 2001 post titled "Don't Let Architecture Astronauts Scare You."[1]

"When you go too far up, abstraction-wise, you run out of oxygen. Sometimes smart thinkers just don't know when to stop, and they create these absurd, all-encompassing, high-level pictures of the universe that are all good and fine, but don't actually mean anything at all."

[1] http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000018.html
Ask HN: Are there any successful, paid Chrome extensions sold on the web store?
Whether using in-app payments or an upfront price structure.. I'm looking for any examples of Chrome apps or extensions that have successfully done notable sales volume on the Chrome Web store.
"Initial reports I've read are that the boy he says was fatally shot by police was first non-fatally shot in the bicep, and then fatally shot in the chest."

Yes, also Mark Duggan was 29 - hardly "a boy".

Edit: Actually, while it's been confirmed that Mark Duggan was shot in the bicep and (fatally) in the chest, I don't think they've established the order in which the shots were fired.
Good grammar and basic wordsmithery make idiocy much easier to manage.

Say: George F. Will vs. Rush Limbaugh.
Sure, but in the eyes of the law, you're still guilty.

To pick a random horseman of the infocalypse to draw an analogy from, importing drugs into the country is arguably worse than selling them on the street corner, but both are illegal.
I see what you did there... genius.
I feel the same way and think I have something that might work. I don't know that it's legal but I think you can pay for access to Slingboxes with the different sports packages. It's what I'm considering so I can drop cable all together...

The only thing holding me back now is how attached my kiddo is to the DVR. We've tried a few things and it always proves too complicated or buggy...
I would definitely be interested in that service, if just to try out minimum viable products and see if they're worth developing further - it would let you fail faster.
Ugh. You are right of course. I had a brain spasm.
whomever. loses.

:)
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I just wrote a very similar response, but it now seems superfluous.

This is a by-product of the chav generations. It's the same people that make city centres essentially a no-go area on Friday and Saturday night. It's the outcome of a binge drinking culture which has been galvanized by the popular media. It's a result of overcrowded prisons, failing schools and a lack of things for young people to do.

I don't really know if there's a fix for this. I'm certainly not smart enough to have one, and I don't think there's any easy solution. The government needs to prioritise critical services like the NHS (a whole other debate on whether it's actually doing that) as well as other core services. It's difficult to justify youth centres and programs if hospitals are dangerously underfunded, especially when there is no quantitative or conclusive evidence regarding their efficacy. In the financial climate it's tough to enforce legislation without hurting international competitivness, already so many companies are leaving the UK for eastern Europe, India and China.

It's a mess, no doubt about it, and while I'm sure people have very strong opinions on aspects of what I've touched upon, there is a naivety to assume you know the answer to the problem. It's multidimensional, but without any clearly defined data, and different elements are changing at different rates. Politicians are in reality not stupid, despite what we might want to suggest, and a democratic system does ensure moderation, if nothing else. I hope someone has some ideas soon though, because the UK is slipping, and I don't like where it's going.

[I should probably also add that these are my opinions, having grown up both around the UK and in mainland Europe. I could be wrong, and frankly I really hope I am]
The conversation isn't about about simplicity vs complexity. It's about complicated vs complex. Poorly managed complexity leads to complicated interfaces and products that are difficult to figure out. Simple products are often very straightforward and therefore very easily understood. Complexity is good because it enables rich experiences, it just has to be understandable in order to make it accessible. Simplicity gets lots of hype, but extremely simple interactions are often less engaging experiences and less engaging over time. So, go for understandable, accessible depth! Make complex offerings that are usable by providing the right level of guidance for users along their way to understanding and making the complex functions accessible to them.
You are totally correct. With iOS 4 the significant location changes API can be trusted with distances around 1 mile / 1.5 kilometers. Anything below that and you don't have any guarantee.

I speak from my own experience developing GPS Notifier for iOS (http://jetap.com and AppStore: http://itunes.apple.com/us/artist/jetap/id400203653).

My first version was only using significant location changes and after a lot of users
feedback, the second release was improved dramatically by switching the way I was using the significant location changes API and some other GPS API: the app now has a better accuracy and the feedback from my users has almost disappear.

Anyway congrats for the OP to ship his app! Enjoy the ride in the AppStore.
Potentially. To be fair, the quality of their code plays a big factor. The problem with someone who has no open source commits means I have no way of judging their code. It's not just the code either. If you've built something cool & interesting in your own time then you instantly move up in the ranks of suitability.
Apple TV has support for MLB and NBA, but the killer is lockouts. You still need the local channels on cable to actually watch it.
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Ask HN: should I buy a mbp?
I've been a linux guy for the past 3 or so years, but now that I'm heading out to college and finally have some cash from a summer job, I've been thinking of going Mac. I really do think I have a bit of a "linux" mindset in that I value the freedom it offers (not "political" GNU freedom, but "freedom to control your computer" type freedom). For example, it annoys me to no end that I need to buy Xcode just so that I can get a C compiler (actually apparently with Lion Xcode is free now, but the fact that my OS doesn't ship with a c compiler and requires me to download a 3+ GB ide to get one bugs me). Plus, who doesn't love the street-cred?

However, linux has also been getting on my nerves a bit lately. Even more than the software is the fact that my hardware (for both my desktop and my laptop) is slowly dying in various ways, and I kinda just want to go to a company, be like "hey - give me unix", and get a machine that just works. I also like pretty UIs (which keeps me with ubuntu for most of my time with linux), so that's a nice mac plus.

So if anyone has made the linux -> mac switch before, is my skin going to end up crawling as I use my mac if I encounter issues like the xcode thing, or am I going to end up feeling comfortable after the initial hurdle and be happy with the switch? (well, obviously you can't tell me how I'll feel, but I'm looking for advice/suggestions with those issues in mind)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diplomatic_mission#Extraterrito...

Contrary to popular belief, diplomatic missions do not enjoy full extraterritorial status and are not sovereign territory of the represented state
Not that that is a place where idiots are likely to venture, but I remember this "captcha" for the Arch Linux forums:

What is the output of "date -u +%W$(uname)|sha256sum|sed 's/\W//g'"?

(https://bbs.archlinux.org/register.php)
well... I see the re-post and discussion of nearly all posts from many sites.

i'd be happy to filter those out somehow... :)
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One of my cow-orkers recently told us a story from his last job working for (a large company you have all heard of). They were outsourcing stuff to India and had gotten 12 Indian engineers to come to England for 4 weeks training. Of the 12 that got on the plane, 10 showed up at their office - the others simply got off the plane and having gotten a free flight to England, disappeared. Of the 10 that got on the plane back, 8 reported to the office there - the other 2 went to other companies with $large_company on their CVs. Within 3 months, none of the original 12 were left.

The outsourcing went ahead anyway.
> The illiterate "I'm too cool for your TL;DR grammar-nazi wall-of-text" types have failed to prime they're Baysian neural networks by reading or doing homework, and generally have no idea their "doing it wrong".

I see what you did there.
Yes.

https://github.com/danski/spah

What @angryamoeba (danski on github) is trying to do, in so far as i have understood it is to address the problem that say twitter has in that it loads up a dumb empty template, and then you have to wait for the JS app to boot up and populate your page.

Instead what he's tried to do is specify a consistent way to specify data in HTML documents (via data attributes), and a framework for syncing modifications to data between the client and server (and this is bi-directional).

That way, if you're doing a cold boot, data is specified in page, and if the client has already loaded an object, full pages/data don't have to be pulled down to the client when things change, and likewise full page state doesn't have to be shoved up to the server when the client changes something.
I think it costs 100$ (per year?), a lot more than the average app.

But point taken - maybe for iOS developers, an OSS version would increase trust.
This is our first Facebook app -- ShareSafe
We're trying to incentive users to check links to see if they are safe before sharing on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/apps/application.php?id=152463608150482
Establishing correlation without causation is a minefield, IMO...

Those who miss nuances of thought and logic are often the same folks who miss nuances of grammar. It's a skill one can learn. Using that as a membership filter would be no different than forming a programming group and restricting it to programmers.
Anyone else think it is someone else posting, before seeing it is self-referenced?

Very measured writing about yourself.

Copacetic shield.
There are free options for hosting and website creation for HTML. $0 < Designer.
A friend of mine puts every conceivable keyword on her CV... At the bottom, in 1-point white text. Slips right through all the filters!
Oh, really? That sounds eminently doable. Do you happen to have any fantastic resource for shaders?
It's so difficult to launch your OWN product and I enjoyed reading about your experience and goals on your blog. I'm reading (again, this time to completion) "The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People" and a phrase in it really applies to this situation: "Begin with the end in mind" - and it looks like you've done just this. Congrats and I wish you the best in your goals!
Although my tongue was in my cheek, I think there’s at least a grain of truth in each of those examples.
Xcode has always been free, until it was temporarily paid ($5!) for some odd reason during the 10.6 to 10.7 transition (I think it was a test of the Mac App Store, actually). So don't count that against Mac OS X.

There's also a GCC-for-Mac OS X distribution now at only a few hundred MB.

And the whole Clang suite is available as a separate download as well.

So there are lots of truly OSS solutions for developing on OS X.
Entertaining. Maybe hide the stack traces and just show the error messages:

$ cat nonexistent
cat: nonexistent: No such file or directory

$ lolcat nonexistent
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/lolcat-42.0.21/lib/lolcat/cat.rb:57:in `initialize': No such file or directory - nonexistent (Errno::ENOENT)
from /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/lolcat-42.0.21/lib/lolcat/cat.rb:57:in `open'
from /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/lolcat-42.0.21/lib/lolcat/cat.rb:57:in `block in cat!'
from /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/lolcat-42.0.21/lib/lolcat/cat.rb:55:in `each'
from /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/lolcat-42.0.21/lib/lolcat/cat.rb:55:in `cat!'
from /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/lolcat-42.0.21/bin/lolcat:24:in `<top (required)>'
from /usr/bin/lolcat:19:in `load'
from /usr/bin/lolcat:19:in `<main>'

Also:

$ echo 'text' > tmp && stat -c %s tmp
5
$ echo 'text' | grep --color text > tmp && stat -c %s tmp
5
$ echo 'text' | lolcat > tmp && stat -c %s tmp
80

grep seems to know when the output is going to a file rather than the terminal (I honestly have no clue how) and omits the color control sequences. lolcat does not, which prevents it from being used instead of cat in some cases.
The other use-case is defeating chaptcha-solving farms often run out of locations with low labor costs. I'm not entirely sure a specific cultural / intellectual / domain knowledge question would be more effective than simple character recognition, but it might be an interesting test.
I have been considering the same switch as well, but I definitely wouldn't if I am on my way to school. I would suggest saving your money; custom building a nice boss linux machine, or if you want drop the same amount of cash and get an epic gaming machine dual boot windows.
Perhaps "land shrimp"? Seriously, I agree that putting the word "bugs" in the name of the products does not bode well for attracting any but the adventurous and novelty-seeking Americans/Europeans.
Because one provide a large continuous chunk of meat, and the other doesn't? Also are insects gutted or do you end up eating their entire intestinal track?
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thats why the Smart CAPTCHAs are needed !
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Hi. Yes. Xcode is free (now).
Works splendidly - 2011 MBP w/Radeon latest FF stable.
The page loaded a 500 and I thought that it was some sort of gag or that my understanding of HTTP response codes was lacking.
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That's the idea. If a project gets going you'd probably want to bring some of it in house. If it was using APIs w/ OAuth or something they could be your accounts and you could move them over to your own servers down the road.

You'd essentially be an integration point. You could probably get some affiliate arrangement with the different services and offer the service at close to free to the consumer.
I say leave it the way it is. The current method somewhat requires a user to be part of the community for a while (or at least be a lurker who reads) to get upvoted. You need to know 'Show HN:' and you need to write in a non-spammy way. It seems to work and keeps the quality higher in my opinion.

I also like the current ratio of what seems to be one or two per day that make the front page. That's enough for me to occasionally click through instead of going to a separate view and weeding through it.
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Short version: Guy complains he can't find good gitignore files. Starts project. Comment links to active list of gitignore files on git hub, which solves initial problem: https://github.com/github/gitignore

Nothing to see here. Why not link to the github repo instead?
You seem to misunderstand me: I'm not suggesting that people use "it's" because they aren't up on the new conventions, or even that "it's" is better because it is the old way. Rather, I am simply suggesting that the old way is better (for the reasons stated above).

I object to the assertion that people are accidentally inserting "it is" where they mean possessive "it". Certainly people such as myself who are strongly verbally oriented type the saxon genitive reflexively to reflect the spoken possessive-ization construct. In a similar way, I also very commonly "improperly" insert commas in my sentence to signify pauses instead of using them merely syntactically.

Furthermore, I maintain that "its"/"it's" is not equivalent to "they're"/"their"/"there". The difference between the first is purely convention, while the second set of words are only related to each other incidentally.

"Nobody accidentally writes her's, their's or your's."

Actually, I do quite often.
We did this over 2 years ago. Our 2.5yo son is (so far) growing up with very little exposure to television commercials (he almost never sees them unless we are watching something on Hulu), and we consider that a good thing. Not only that, since it's all on-demand, he can choose whatever fits his mood during the time he's allowed to watch stuff. And because the media is "always available", I think he's developing a kind of acceptance that it's okay to stop watching when he's bored because the content availability is not constrained to "now." In other words, it's far easier for him to leave a show midway when it's time for bed or something because he knows he can just pick it up later and continue some other day. This is a decidedly different experience than growing up with scheduled TV pre-DVR where every minute was precious and missing anything was a "big deal."
What are those tests? I haven't joined HN in ages (and then, only once), so I'm not up to date on the current procedures.
No harm, no foul. :) I was amused by it actually, and a thought crossed my mind that you did it on purpose.

Anyway, it just reiterates that, while funny, this method of captcha is pretty much useless.
This is how it starts. First you're passing out arrays and using Ruby's destructuring shortcut.

Then you're noticing other languages have true multiple returns. You begin hankering after neat little error handling idioms and useful state machine hacks. You begin tinkering with Lua or various Lisps.

But soon that's not enough. You find yourself huffing full blown pattern matching operators and dissing statefulness. You'd ask for an intervention from friends, but that would require I/O. You're doomed.
Diversity is often overlooked when people think about diet. The longest lived populations also tend to have preserved a tremendous amount of diversity in their diet. Folks living in the hills of Sicily can sometimes incorporate material from several dozen different kinds of plants in a single meal. In contrast, it's not unusual for a North American to make a meal with corn, peas, potatoes, and some form of meat. That's between one or two orders of magnitude less diversity.

I've tried purposely maximizing dietary diversity, and it seems to make a difference for me.
There are rumors Amazon is bringing out a color Kindle that is more an iPad like tablet than a book reader, likely based on Android.

Given the (apparently) great HTML5 work that went into building the Cloud Reader, I wonder what we'll see for UI in the color Kindle. Will there be a suite of apps that are all HTML5?
Don't you end up eating the digestive system of the bug along with the rest of it? The sticking point for me is not that the animal is a bug, but that I am eating its waste. Never having eaten bugs, I'm not sure how exactly this works out.

When eating shrimp and lobster, you are typically eating the processed muscle mass (and shell, if you are into that), rather than the whole animal in one bite.
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"Because you are not Einstein, it is not OK for you to make mistakes"?
As for the Olympics, on my basic cable television service (held due to Comcast pricing issues), the one stream of broadcasting that was not utter crap was one of the secondaries that was on... CNBC or something like that. They showed particularly women's curling in pretty much complete broadcasts, except for commercials.

I'm neither a sports fan nor a curling aficionado (or, I wasn't), but I quite enjoyed watching those games and following the Canadian women's team on their way to victory.

People are bailing on cable television (and new television in general) because the programming is utter crap. And then the companies sit on the good, if older, stuff and move it ever further up in the premium levels. I'd actually watch "Star Trek: The Next Generation", but it's been moved to price levels I won't pay for. The channel perennially re-running "West Wing" was recently bumped from my service (despite Comcast's supposed agreement to hold the status quo until 2013).

Now, "The Next Generation" is on Netflix. So, screw you, cable TV.

(Just wish I had a better choice for my Internet connectivity.)
An appearance on the front page is less about sink/swim and more about feedback. Early feedback and first-hand user experiences/ideas are a huge asset for a start up. HN is unique because its readers are more likely to be early adopters, and most have a tech background - which I have found improve the quality of feedback/suggestions.

Love this idea. Would be happy to see it added to HN.
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The creative community has got a bad press over productivity: misconception and myths are perpetuated about the time designers and creatives spend down the pub or what time they show up at work. Part of the problem is down to how creative organisations traditionally value ideas. But as we move to results-focused working practices, the time someone spends at their desk is a flawed metric anyway; the best ideas are had in a pub, on the bike ride home, in the shower. And that rarely appears on a timesheet.
it would have to be contingent on trusting both sides to be honest and open re: finances. I'm thinking a little bit more of the groupon model - you pay me for every successful booking (or, booking that turned in to a paying customer). Given how many food places seemed to JUMP on groupon, they could take it one step further and say "instead of one time influx of bargain hunters, we'll manage your website - to our definition of good - and you pay us $x/table"
SAIL (the Stanford Artifical Intelligence Lab) had one of these creatures too.

http://soe.stanford.edu/about/memories/12_2009_mccarthy.html
Some good points towards using the Captcha, but I'm still not convinced that "there's no excuse not to know common homonyms and misspellings".

As far as using common homonyms and misspellings as predictors of "job performance, health, and various other life outcomes", well, I'm not quite sure that's reasonable. For example, xd's comment below:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2868142

has an error in it "Too many people will spill there emotions" but I don't think it's reasonable to predict too much based on that. There's several reasons these errors are common, not just inability or indolence.

There's often a slip between mind and the keyboard - I know I often simply type the wrong thing even when I know full well what the correct thing is. Muscle memory or something.

Edit: 'their "doing it wrong"'. Ah yes, very good :)
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Are you sure "whomever"? Isn't that the objective form and, in this case, "whoever" is the subject?