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>I wonder if the author also refuses to go to bars, because there have been people beaten at or abducted from them, or drive a car, because there have been cases of road rage, or avoid churches because they have been boarded and burned, or schools because there have been shootings, or...

Do you use this "take-it-to-the-extreme" for every argument you hear?

Most of the times, arguments are meant to be considered at the level at which they are told and for the situations for which they are told.

For example, when one tells you to wear something warm when outside is snowing, he doesn't mean you should wear 20 overcoats and a special thermal suite.

So, to avoid schools because "there have been shootings" and such, is not at all like "avoid declaring your exact location to the whole world especially now with the availability of pervert-targeted-apps like Girls Around Me".

For one, the statistics on rapes and sexual assaults VS school shootings don't favor your argument in the least.
I like this game because now I can prove that my house is in a very defensible position for a zombie attack.

Also I really liked the use of Google maps and the power that brings, namely being able to zoom in an out and being able to switch to map or satellite mode, both of which were a lot of fun. And of course it's more fun because I was able to defend my own home!

I think I'll play again and defend my childhood home, which is much less defensible.
Here's the guide in question: http://www.head-fi.org/a/headphone-buying-guide
I love it but I think it would be more fun with teams.
Fair point. I was just trying to address some mentions of sound leakage here and in the article, and to point out that with audio a lot of the time we are up against physical limits.
I built my first complete rails app interacting with a remote API. http://www.tweepsmanager.com and then I put the repo up on github https://github.com/pbjorklund/Tweepsmanager for everyone to see and judge.

Some day im going to come back to it and walk through the commit history and see if I ever made any progress in my rails skillset.

It's one of those everlasting work-in-progress projects, right now I'm not sure what functionality I want to provide. Right now im thinking about collecting data and drawing some conclusions. But that will probably be another app.

It also made me realize that something like Sinatra + backbone would be a better fit. So I guess thats something atleast.
> Recruitment secret weapon. It warms our hearts to see the look of incredulous joy on the face of a job candidate when we assure them “You heard right, we really don’t support IE.”

I can imagine that look so well...
So what about IE10? It is still missing WebGL, but do you use that?
In libguestfs (part of our open source virtualization tools suite):

- the ability to mount VM filesystems on the host via the API, which was a huge amount of work for a fairly small gain, mainly wrangling FUSE (https://rwmj.wordpress.com/2012/03/29/libguestfs-mount-local...)

- a way to make it easier to use libguestfs from Linux distros other than our primary ones (ie. other than Fedora, Debian): http://libguestfs.org/download/binaries/appliance/

So two deceptive features that are small, but involved a huge amount of work and wrangling behind the scenes, particularly the first one. Made much harder by the primary requirement to write most things in C.
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He meant unethical in dealings with other Wall St. companies. Customers are sheep to be shorn.
Hyperboles, image macros, Guy Fawkes masks, factual errors. Sounds like an average Pirate Party operation. The intentions are good for sure, but I doubt that this site is useful for a lot of people as it stands now. Of course it being a wiki it has a chance to evolve and grow into an actual gold mine of information. But I'm quite skeptical for now.
No title bars when maximized, and menus in the top panel? They should seriously consider merging back with Unity.

> Windows are maximized by default

Thanks again for catering to tablet users at the cost of the rest of us! How many times do we need to remind these people that there is no such thing as a one-size-fits-all user interface?
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There might be no law in them asking for it. But there is no law saying you have to give it to them either.
Hah! Great fun. I've found the strategy for long-term survival is simply to stay in the spawning point, spin, and fire as many rounds as possible. I suspect this is because the damage you take for hitting another ship's shields is set high enough that the probability of taking bullet damage is roughly constant whether moving or staying in place, while the probability of taking damage while moving is much higher than that of taking damage while staying in place.

Anyone with a more careful attitude towards quantitative analysis than I care to verify?
I kept building https://www.wisecashhq.com/ (and we're starting dogfooding which is a great feeling!).

I also launched a little website for my favourite Ruby ETL at http://www.activewarehouse.info/.
A platform for content creation with Mechanical Turk (e.g. stories, discussions, question/answers). Here are some screenshots :

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If anyone has a fresh startup/website that needs content to get it off the ground, I can be of assistance.

I am the creator of the Rails/Mechanical Turk integration gem Turkee ( http://www.github.com/aantix/turkee ), and am an expert with Mechanical Turk and content creation. Drop me a line if you'd like to see a demo, jim.jones1@gmail.com . I do contract work on the side and live in San Francisco.
I really hate nit picking on open-source software, but... Gnome 3.X is without a doubt one of the worst pieces of UI design I have ever spotted (KDE 4 included). Almost everything looks like it was done by someone that does not have the slightest clue. It's sad, Clearlooks on Gnome 2 was quite good.
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Not if CSS gradually turns into JavaScript.
The Internet, particularly post-aggregation sites like HN, reddit, fark, digg, Slashdot, etc, and social networks like Facebook (and previously myspace) has destroyed April 1st.

The key to a proper April 1st day prank in the past was the mark not realizing it was April 1st. Now basically anyone who is on the Internet has their hand tipped (usually the night before if living in the US because of the global nature of the Internet), thus any good real-world pranking will fall flat as the mark will see the prank coming a mile away. The Internet pranks (which are usually groan-worthy to begin with) don't work either because there are so many of them that the situation becomes immediately obvious... pranks only work well in isolation.

In the grand scheme of things, I'll take the death of "April Fool's Day" if it comes with every positive thing the Internet has allowed, but there's no doubt that "April Fool's Day" is dead in the 1st world (as of 2004 or so)... killed by the Internet.
I do not see why your worries cannot be addressed. In fact, IIRC (it's been a while), the programming language Cecil does just that.

http://www.cs.washington.edu/research/projects/cecil/www/cec...
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This is one of those times I wish HN wasn't so strict about the title of the submission matching the title of the article--this title is extremely misleading. (As a guest post, I'm guessing the author didn't get to write the title, so I'm not blaming him). 4ormat didn't "drop" IE, they never supported it. As a result, their calculation of how much they "saved" appears to be based on some back-of-the-envelope calculation of how much more expensive it would have been to develop for IE over a period of years.

tl;dr: if you build a tool which solves a significant and recurring pain point for creative professionals, you can get away with not supporting IE.

The article does not provide much insight into building a consumer-facing application--this is the equivalent of a company using an intranet app which is IE6-specific.
The adoption of IE10 is still very low. If IE10 just works out of the box for us we will welcome anyone that decides to use it.
Nope. Not even IE10. If they pop Webkit rendering into IE maybe we'd consider it.

There also just aren't that many users showing up to our site using IE. That graph in the article is straight from Google Analytics for our main landing page.
When I came up with the list I was considering your initial question about a directional microphone and "why distinguish between voices and background noise?" So some of my examples were not restricted to directional microphones only. Given the new constraints:

Factory workers: Increase awareness about the sounds of the machinery the worker is operating and ignore the sounds of nearby machines. In a more hostile/mobile environment where the worker does not need to be so in tune with their own machine the directional microphone could provide the same benefit as it does with construction workers.

Construction workers: amplify noises from directions where the worker is not looking and therefore increase awareness of threats from blind spots.

Bird watching in the amazon: Isolate/focus scientists hearing in the direction of the bird that they are observing. Thereby reducing the possibility that they attribute sounds/songs from other birds to the bird they are observing.

News camera man: increase ability to hear sounds in front of camera man and/or directions from reporter/crew members while reducing distraction of environmental sounds.

Why are you moving the goal posts?
There's no way, that's all just other players. TWO times a screenful of players, started to gank me.

Maybe I'm just a sore loser ahaha. Great game, anyway.
Apply the CounterStrike model of short 3 minute rounds and you'd have yourself an actual game here.
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Tired of talking about it. Terrible, but I know exactly what you mean. Its like being under siege. And I suppose that is the point. Those who oppose all these vile attacks on our basic freedoms will eventually be worn down and defeated.

Unless a good majority of people get radical and stamp this out properly, and for every one world wide, this will creep and creep until the internet becomes nothing more than a sales portal.
For what it's worth, the police do not need a court order to shadow you.
I know it is in beta right now, but I mean when it is released.
I know that look myself. But most experienced web coders know how to whip IE into submission, so I'm very skeptical about the 30-100% figure. (I usually guesstimate it at around 20% for a normal website.)

65% of their traffic is from Mac users, so this sounds like a good decision given their audience.
Ported my app DJPad to Playbook (it outsold Android and WebOS immediately). No port for iOS as they already have really great dj apps that are much more mature than mine.
Lol yes this is lots of fun, however I seem to continously pickup some stalker hellbent on destroying me in particular and chasing me all across the universe. Well, atleast it makes me feel special :)
Other comments on my first submission on HN, three years and half ago (!) : http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=291606
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Which one is the best? I've looked at hubspot(who aquired performable), but I cant just test it myself. I need to get a demo by someone, which I dont really like. :)

I looked at http://www.verticalresponse.com/ but never really heard about them which makes me uneasy to really use them.

Any other suggestions and best of all personal preference?
I launched a pixel art app for the ipad http://pixelartapp.com
I sold each one of my towers at level 200 and continued to beat each wave, towerless. To compensate, it seems that the amount of money you get from selling a tower is nowhere near the stated amount :).
What about IE with Chrome Frame?

http://www.google.com/chromeframe
"I would be concerned too as a parent if a teacher's aid did that" How is that concerning? If she'd posted a picture of herself executing kittens, or planning a series of gruesome murders, yes, sure, that's concerning. But a pictures of pants and ankles? How is that something to be concerned about? Or are you saying that you don't think that's anything to worry about, but you only want your children to be near adults who spend their lives in some kind of insane fearful paranoia? If that IS what you want, what's wrong with YOU? What kind of people would your children turn into if every adult they ever met was a terrified paranoic?
I wouldn't trust Apple on security. They are currently producing computers with ports that have direct access to the RAM. Also, you can root a mac with physical access in about 10 seconds. (On startup CTRL-S , mount the hd, delete find and delete .Apple*, restart). There is also that issue with the Indian government. Also in the past they have had major problems with FileVault (search 'VileFault').
This is great. An MMO pong would be fun...
Well, there is such a word, certainly in the UK.

A more constructive comment might be, "the spelling variant you have used is normally a noun meaning 'a person who depends on another for their upkeep or care', where here you want the more normal adjectival spelling 'dependent'."

Although fwiw it seems that even as an adjective "dependant" might fly: http://www.wordnik.com/words/dependant
>You're referencing scary anecdotes to refute my claim that you shouldn't base decisions on scary anecdotes.

Yeah, so how about basing them on statistics? Like the one that says that 1 in 4 women was sexually assaulted?

>I bet you wouldn't be saying that to me if I took the more sexist and popular view that women need to be coddled and sheltered from the cruel, strange men on the streets.

Coddled and sheltered no, but they should be vigilant about them.

Are there as many street rape attacks on men? The numbers don't indicate so at all (not to mention that lots (most?) men wouldn't even consider a sexual attack by a woman unpleasant --except if they consider the woman ugly).

>Here's a random tidbit from a web search: "Females are generally murdered by people they know. In 64% of female homicide cases in 2007, females were killed by a family member or intimate partner".

Yes, that just leaves the other 36%. And that's on homicide. How about sexual assault? Even with similar or worse numbers, being most likely attacked by people you know is orthogonal to declaring your whereabouts. If the raper is that kid down the block of your house that's obsessed with you, does he also have to know that at 12:34 Friday night you are at that remote area?
Could this be an April Fools gag?

I wish I had screencapped it, but at one point I found myself in the middle of the screen, watching four swarm-like quadrants of fellow ships (top-left, top-right, bottom-left and bottom-right) all moving in relative unison. Anytime a swarm started to get close to me, I would inch away for a few seconds before the swarm turned back. I was able to stay in this middle, peaceful area for an extremely long time before random stray fire eventually finished me off.
I never get that argument. I could download TrueCrypts source code, but that would take forever to read, if I could even read it all. So I'm basically taking the internet's consensus that someone has read the source and it does what it says it does. Is this a safer bet?
Add a tweet / FB share button :>
Clone of the Tempest arcade game in HTML5/ClojureScript: https://github.com/mrmekon/tempest-cljs/
That would almost certainly work, but I suppose the proble that Shay Pierce had was that this was not possible to do before he had to sign the contract.
1. Yes, I am. The normal response to trying to figure out whether or not to walk down a particular dark street or across a particular campus at night is not to pull up police records and perform a cluster analysis, it's to make a gut decision based on the cases of which you are aware.

2. Actually, I wasn't trying to say "men can't possibly know that", I was try to say that people who happen to have the firsthand experience of being a woman probably have more knowledge of the risks that women typically have to navigate than you do if you are male, unless you have had some reason to accumulate an unusual amount of information on the topic from firsthand sources.

3. Taking the condescending position that women need to to be coddled by men is very different from allowing that each woman needs to assess for herself what kinds and degrees of risks to her person that she is willing to accept and act accordingly. Whether you tell me that I am incapable of handling x situation myself and offer to shield me or you tell me that I should dismiss my worries about situation x because you know better, you are operating under the assumption that I cannot be trusted to assess the situation and act accordingly myself. I don't expect this is what you meant to say?
Such a hysterical, over-amped campaign. I can't wait till he turns his guns on the Internet itself because, to paraphrase him a bit "There’s no doubt that [lots of stuff on the Internet is placed there] by consenting adults. But it’s equally clear that [the Internet] plays a major role in the trafficking of minors or women who are coerced.

And he cites one recent case where, yes indeed, a girl was "drugged, tied up, raped and sold to johns through Backpage and other sites."

So even if a medium is used by adults for consensual activity, it should be stomped out if there's any chance that someone will abuse it.
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I agree with you in general but I think that only three classes of Silicon Valley companies attract jerks like that: 1) gaming, 2) social networks (glorified dating), 3) market place / "new business model" companies.
> Also, you can root a mac with physical access in about 10 seconds. (On startup CTRL-S , mount the hd, delete .Apple, restart)*

If an attacker has physical access to the machine there's very little you can do to protect it. There are some things you can do to make that harder, but general advice is "physical access == game over" for security.
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Nokia begins Lumia 900 marketing with 'Smartphone Beta Test'
A Pivot: TripLingo becomes StripLingo
Hmm, favorite strategy: zoom ahead full speed with a spammed bullet stream in front of you. After wrapping around enough times your bullet stream (and probably you) are going to nail someone. As you get better you can adjust your course a little to hit more, or hunt down people after that who are critically damaged by the bullet stream. :)

Fun, all in all, and an awesome tech demo. For finished games, there's already http://www.getcontinuum.com/ which is basically the game with rules and rounds and teams and whatnot. Although that is thick client.
It's... a Craigslist clone. The article makes it seem like backpage.com is some online brothel whose sole (or main) focus is "teh trafficking of innocent wimminz and children oh my!", but a quick spin through the site seems to show that it's more like Craigslist with less traffic and the greatest site design techniques from 2004. With that in mind, the NYT article strikes me as more of an attack piece against Village Voice Media, and a screed against online prostitution in general.

In my experience as a semi-professional musician who gets a significant chunk of work from the 'gigs' and 'talent' section of Craigslist, the quality of those sections diminished GREATLY when Craigslist shuttered their 'adult' section. I say leave backpage.com alone, and don't penalize the rest of their community by using a sledgehammer to squash a housefly.
Comics on the iPad: will the new iPad attract paper readers?
500 > 75

In the context of speed, 500 times slower is more dramatic than 75 times slower.
The implementations of the protocol (the cross-platform bitcoin daemon) have been securely working in the real world since May '09. This track record is what inspires confidence in the protocol. The security of any particular web app related to bitcoin is not the security "of bitcoin".

The only reason bitcoin-related web apps are so extensively probed is due to the security of the protocol (bitcoins are valuable because the protocol and its most widespread implementation is believed to be secure).

The security track record of any highly targeted industry is generally poor, including banks, fortune 500 companies, credit card processors, and shopping carts. To say that the security of bitcoin-related services is any worse than these is unfair.
Yes, crashes Chrome, and on top of it - signups don't really work. Very unexpected low quality from LearnBoost!
Possibly sexist question: Does giving a female name to a programming language increase the rate of its adoption? AFAIK, this is the only such language (perl was nearly named gloria, though!). Does anyone know the etymology of the name (julialang.org seems to be down, so I couldn't check there)?
There are Julia sets but that's for the lastname of the mathematician Gaston Julia.