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If you're in an area where Sprint's likely to launch LTE soon, go for it. Otherwise, expect speeds like this: http://www.androidcentral.com/sprints-galaxy-nexus (halfway down the page)
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Your phrase "source for this claim" implies to me that you didn't read the Rolling Stone article under discussion. It is a "source for this claim."

Quoting from the article: "But don't worry your pretty little heads over the epidemic of far-right insurrectionism that followed the election of Barack Obama: all told, according to a forthcoming data analysis by Neiwert, there have been 55 cases of right-wing extremists being arrested for plotting or committing alleged terrorists acts compared to 26 by Islamic militants during the same period. The right-wing plots include the bombing of a 2011 Martin Luther King Day parade in Spokane and the assassination of abortion doctor George Tiller in 2009."

It links to http://www.csgv.org/issues-and-campaigns/guns-democracy-and-... which includes a list of "incidents of insurrectionist violence". It also links to a book, "Over the Cliff: How Obama's Election Drove the American Right Insane" by the aforementioned Neiwert.
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awesome project. there is some work in progress for a duckduckhack plugin[1] on this: https://duckduckhack.uservoice.com/forums/5168-plugins/sugge...

dunno, maybe those two efforts can be joined.

[1] http://www.gabrielweinberg.com/blog/2012/05/introducing-duck...
Cubism is pretty easy to work with, or? See my heavily annotated sketch of continuous polling with Cubism; http://bl.ocks.org/2689616
It may be working via few isps and dns servers. But the whole point of excercising a ban on websites is absurd. Wonder how the court is controlled by the big shots in India.
The take I'd really like to see on HTML5 presentations is making them easy to author. If not by end-users, at least making it so there's no layout micromanagement involved.
Parent is talking about the algos behind it. Yes, the result is interesting, but the backend is boilerplate.
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I think the individual comparisons are good, but the conclusion is wrong. Yes, Sass is technically superior to Less; it can do a lot of things that Less cannot. That does not mean that you should use Sass over Less.

The truth is, for 99% of use cases they are exactly the same. Sass is a bit more mature and it allows more programming, so it is potentially more powerful than Less, but that also allows it to deviate for CSS further, which is not necessarily a good thing if you have to work with people who only know CSS.

I personally use Less because it helps me develop faster. Less is implemented in JavaScript, which means it can run in the browser. Less.js' "watch mode" is awesome for speeding up development: save your .less stylesheet and the browser immediately shows the new styles. This is something SASS cannot do and.

Finally, to correct some factual errors in the article: Less does allow some programming, loops etc. It's just incredibly awkward and barely useful, but you can use JavaScript (I used that to make this: https://github.com/micheljansen/dynamicgif.less). Also, the "Helping with CSS3" point is moot if you use http://lessprefixer.com/ and keep that updated.
Yes it can. Remember that in any non-trivial system, there is no "UI". There are web apps (there may be dozens of these alone), desktop client-server apps, terminals, interfaces to other systems (which in turn may be many protocols, file formats, etc). There may be 30+ years between the oldest and the newest app, and hundreds or thousands of developers working in everything from COBOL to C++ to Python involved throughout that time. All talking to the same database. You want the same rules to apply to all of them, so have the DB enforce them, job done.

The webdev world, where there is 1 app in 1 language written by 1 team talking to 1 DB and that's as complex as that bit of the system architecture will ever get, doesn't have any techniques that can cope with this kind of environment.
This, except I'm in college now and it works that way. At times, I still have to consciously remind myself that X is not completely obvious to everybody.
YouTube has live streams now? That's the second I've seen, the only other was IPL...
It's not totally surprising, given how Apple's App Review Guidelines already state that "apps or metadata that mentions the name of any other mobile platform will be rejected" (emphasis mine). It's strange that they would actually filter 'jailbreak' out though.
Oops. Frankly, I don't know how I missed that. This leads to me believe that it was a mistake on Apple's part to censor "jailbreak" in everything outside of apps. Even then, it's a pretty inane decision. Apple won't approve any jailbreak apps in the first place, so why the censorship?
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In the same boat as you, quit my job around the same time you did (august of 2011), built an iPhone app and have some affiliate marketing. Turned over a bit more then 10 bucks a day (average about $70) but still in the ball park of can do much better :)

And yes it is fun ! i guess we just gotta keep going
I'm happy to give Apple the benefit of the doubt here, maybe it was one individual working on their own and not part of some "company policy", but I don't really see how you can "mistakenly" add a word to a dictionary.
There are EPUB and Mobipocket versions of all RFCs already available, by the way. See this thread: http://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/79attendees/current/msg....
I've made an open source experimental authoring tool for such presentations here http://adityab.github.com/Awwation

It uses SVG, and Javascript for animations.
This is the natural result of a commoditized profession. Talented people will not be rewarded to the extent they deserve, and will leave.
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Know about the different CMS at Brushart blog with its usability and functionality, with lot of suggestion on the best suitable site for you, if planning to have your own site.
This is great! How does it compare with impress.js or jmpress (the jQuery version of impress)?
I'd like to use this in my authoring tool, if CSS3 animations work with SVG.
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Or, they could get rid of every coin smaller than a quarter. Assuming every amount of change less than a dollar is equally likely, the average number of coins needed to make change now becomes 1.5 - and it's not like anybody really uses anything less than a quarter for anything other than coinstar anyways
The feedback is something that a couple of friends of mine and I are working on.

There are a few things that we've talked about are:

1) Heat. Patches that can be placed on areas of your skin that will increase/decrease heat quickly as a way of giving forece-feedback. This was just something we talked about briefly, and I really don't know how workable it is. I don't know offhand of any materials that can rapidly go from hot to cold and back again.

2) Electrodes. This is difficult because skin conditions change. There is [from what we've looked at] a smallish envelope between "I can feel this" and "this is potentially dangerous". The envelope can change with skin conditions [and people]. I've built a little prototype that sits on my tongue and gives me feedback, but that is clunky, and something we'd like to avoid.

3) Vibration. The problem here is that it turns out that it's a bit tough to judge different levels of vibration. It ends up as an on/off sensation. What we've talked about is using different patters of on off, or a variable frequency of on-off. (Here is one of the motors walking through the different freqs. It sounds kindof funny: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C_bGb2Xij8I&feature=youtu...)

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There is a ton of interest in this stuff, at least in my circle.
I stopped reading after this and came here to say this :-)
I wonder what Vimeo and Pastebin did to end up on this list. These two are definitely odd (and harmless) apples in that bunch.
Yeah it's just my own page. The next ones in the queue after mine all work just fine, can hear them all.

If it weren't 3am I'd rebuild mine and see if I can get a new working.

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I don't suppose you have a link to something similar for python with lots of real world examples?
Look, here's the disagreement:

>You've made this claim (thought without specifying why it's superior to the existing methods), and yet ignored the simple fact that a TIR post is just as bad, if not worse, then the post it replies to. At the very least, the post it replies to is at least, usually, on topic (Topicality is, of course, not the sole contributing factor to whether a comment is worthwhile).

I'm not ignoring that fact - it's just that I haven't accepted it. I agree that TIR posts do not derive value from adding valuable on-topic content. But I've suggested a way for them to derive value from another source. Given that, I don't accept the claim that they are just as bad as the posts they reply to. I thought (and still do) that the argument you were offering takes that as a premise. That's the point I made in the last comment, and I took it to be sufficient to show why your argument doesn't go through. I'm very much happy to be corrected if that's not the argument you had in mind.

The point about using existing tools/protocols is a different argument, and I think a good one. However, it doesn't bear on whether TIR posts are in themselves valuable or not - it only bears on the comparative value they have. Evaluation of that argument would require more knowledge than I have of the efficacy of different ways online communities enforce norms. Re the other points - I think there are interesting things to say about them, but I suspect that would take us off the central disagreement. I am however familiar with the other points about comment policy and downvotes etc... - I've used HN far longer than I've had this account. Whilst we're on issues of civility, I would say that suggesting comments come off as trolling, claiming people 'don't grasp' (which can mean 'don't understand'), and judging them on two sentence profiles don’t seem to me very useful. I was slightly brusque in claiming your comment was 'beside the point' - but did so to echo your comment.

I think I should point out that I don't commit to the claim that TIR posts actually are valuable - I just think it's plausible that they are.
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It's 31KB gzipped. This is nothing.
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I pick Node because it's easy to move code from backend to frontend and back. I find this very comfortable while creating and testing software.
None of those words have been misspelled...
Just the core of Google Charts if 150kb. 100kb seems light to me and certainly not a deal breaker.
But grandparent question is still a good one, is it possible to slim it down if you just use one chart? Probably a common usage is just to have one or two graphs of the same type on a site.
no, of course not! it's about the climate.
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Give me a better metric for success that you can measure over the course of a year.

This is assuming that the net effect of the tests is positive, thus we should keep them until we find something better. But a lot of comments are pointing at the harm caused by standardized testing. For people who think the net effect is negative, the rational thing to do is get rid of them until we find something better.
This link was posted further up: http://www.shopify.com/blog/6058268-how-pinterest-drives-eco...

You should have a read and see if you change your mind.
Ask HN - How do we _effectively_ protest against web censorship in India?
India is becoming more repressive every passing year.

Semi-mainstream media term it "soft emergency" while the mainstream toes the Govt. line.

Now they take away the internet from us?

Damned we are if we allow this to continue.

How do we effectively counter this?
Oh wow they actually went and made that official now? Christ Apple, every time I come up with something that they might be doing in the future it turns out they're doing it worse than expected right now.

There's no excuse whatsoever for that sort of censorship, it's purely anticompetitive. Good job they didn't grab the whole market when they had the chance.
What is Cinnamon like for multi monitors? Can you have a seperate taskbar on each monitor for example?
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Sounds to me like he just wants to add something different to the discussion rather that the inevitable "it's a bubble", and for that it made an interesting comment that deserves an upvote.
I have the impression that Android apps make money with ads rather than purchases. It is possible to make money, just with different approaches.

The skills and experience you'd gain doing Android development is transferable to iOS anyway. It won't be a total waste if things don't go to plan.
A few to start with. To be honest, even one good book is a great start.

Raising Happy Children - Jan Parker, Jan Stimpson, Dorothy Rowe

Playful Parenting - Lawrence J. Cohen

The Well-Trained Mind - Jessie Wise, Susan Wise Wise Bauer

I don't agree with everything they say, but they are pointed in the right direction. I don't home school our kids, but we do homework with them and I go out of my way to talk to them about anything they're interested in and look things up with them.

It does help that my mother was head teacher of a primary school and did an Open University degree in child psychology when I was a teenager.

We're engineers, right? When you've got a new piece of equipment or software or a new language to get to grips with we read the manuals and find out about best practices. It's the same with kids.
My reliance connection allows TPB, Vimeo and Pastebin. I can confirm that at least vimeo and TPB were blocked till a few days ago when I checked.
Smart people accept that some people are smarter then them. Stupid people will never agree with this. I think this is the way to spot smart people.
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Elena Gilbert has always been a star student; beautiful, poupular and involved with school and friends
Pretty lame. This is just going to push more and more people to use VPNs.
I'm at stage 1 of your story at the moment, I'm part developing / outsourcing dev from my contracting earnings and hoping to launch in the next 3mths, I'm then heading off around Central & South America for the next 3 to try and push it on part time whilst also enjoying new cultures.

Thanks for being a great inspiration.
Abandon social. Pursue this.
I wrote to the UK's Advertising Standards Authority regarding misuse of the word "unlimited" as relating to broadband and mobile internet.

Their response was that "as most people wont hit the limits, they can call it unlimited".
'protect your move ...' Move? What move?
This is spot on. Does anyone know of a single instance of standardized teacher testing that recognizes important teacher qualities beyond their skill in imparting knowledge to students?
We need to hurt them. They understand "vote-banks".

Let's form a vote bank that votes against the current incumbent for web censorship.

Please sign this petition: http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/i-will-vote-against-the-c...
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That's interesting, but in viewing the presentation the text is almost unreadable in Safari -- too much space between some letters, while others overlap.

If it works in Chrome, Firefox and IE... what's Safari doing wrong here? Oddly I just checked it on the iPhone and it seems fine there (although zooming out seems to be blocked, so the presentation is much too large for the screen).
The podcasts and iTunes U are affected by this as well, so it means that Apple stop people from finding content that talks or teaches about jailbreaking as well.
The article should maybe have been titled "Smart people don't assume others are stupid". But even then the argument is wrong.

It seems to me that what this comes down to is: is it justifiable and appropriate to categorise a person according to their behaviour (including the holding of opinions)? The author doesn't seem to deny that people can exhibit stupid behaviour, but argues that its wrong to categorise a person who exhibits such behaviour because you will (inevitably) never have enough information about the person or situation to make a judgement about the intrinsic qualities of the person. This might be true in some theoretical sense, but it doesn't really sit well with human nature or needs. We all have finite lives and stuff to be done in those lives. Making judgments about people is necessary to avoid a frustrating life spent (as in 'used up') dealing with people who behave stupidly.

And really, how long do you have to evaluate someone's behaviour before you are no longer 'jumping to conclusions' about them? Strangely, the author doesn't say. At some point you have use the history of a person's behaviour to decide[1]. A purist might say that such a decision should always be tentative, but in reality I think they soon become fixed. We are talking about people here.

For what its worth, my approach is that if I decide to think of someone as being stupid (or smart) then I try to be conscious and mindful of the decision, allow myself the opportunity to change my mind (while recognising that I probably won't), and always respect their dignity as a person.

[1] I suspect that how soon this happens will mainly depend on the social relationship between the people involved.
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Having a Tata Photon+ wireless (EVDO) connection, as well as an MTNL (Mumbai) broadband and a local internet provider (Hathway) in my home and/or at work, I haven't seen this in action.
I am not sure whether Airtel and Reliance have any vested interest (far be me from it!), but Reliance is also the owner of BIG Entertainment and BIG Pictures (both owned by the younger Ambani), and the Mittals of Airtel have tied up with BigFlix.
In other words, this may be a net non-neutrality move, not the first of its kind.
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That's the funding side, but what I'm wondering is why we don't get more for the money we do spend. Norway and Canada spend about the same amount on state-funded medical care as we do, but they manage to provide universal coverage, whereas in the U.S. we spend all that money but I still have to buy private health insurance! Instead it goes into this patchwork of uncoordinated programs: Medicare, Medicaid, VA hospitals, reimbursements for unpaid ER visits, etc.
This is not a correct analogy to "bad information is worse than no information".

A better analogy would be a medicine that typically leaves patients worse off than they were before treatment.
“Hang out with the crows and you may get shot, hang with eagles and you will soar”

That's a rather mundane statement in my opinion. "Surround yourself with the best and success will follow".

If that's true, the interesting question would be how you identify and attract the best.

Secondly, who are "the best and the brightest"? To me it almost seems like that if you are successful, these labels naturally will be used to explain your success. Apparent success makes other people attach these labels to you, your team and your company.

In this the entire construct of "attract eagles and you will soar" seems to be a tautology. If you soar, other people will think you are an eagle. But you might be lousy crow who just got lucky that it didn't get shot.
Thanks to the British Empire and partly to the United States, English is effectively the international language of Business, though.
He already is using prepared statements, that happens under the hood when you use parameterized queries. Problem is the lack of type definition (in the first revision), causing a new compilation for each length of the varchar column.
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I don't think you should be optimizing for test scores though, you should be optimizing for "education", which is ill-defined and hard to measure. In the analogy to A/B testing, you wish to maximise your profits, not the number of email addresses you collect.
Ask HN: Countries with sane governments that won't mess with my Internet use?
What countries have governments that have not/are not currently planning to pass stuff like SOPA and don't mess with how people use the internet? Ones that won't block websites at the drop of a hat, for completely bogus/absurd reasons?
Guess I won't be able to download that awesome AC/DC song then.
Show HN: SearchTab - Add Search to Facebook Pages
That reminds me of one of my favorite quotes: judge others by their intentions and yourself by your actions.
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I guess they remove the ads - there's no reason to give free ad views.
His point is a spell checker wouldn't have helped here!
I would argue that personal effectiveness includes the life skill of being a character judge, and then having the courage to take action based on those judgements.

Ie, if you judge someone to be a dishonest time waster, then politely brush them off and don't have anything to do with them. This is true whether in a work situation or a social situation.

Taking it even further, it means leaving a job or an area if it dawns on you that you're surrounded by people who are either stupid or lazy and going nowhere.

As you say, life is short. Learning to sort the wheat from the chaff is a way of spending better time with more interesting people.
Nice idea. And neat design.

+1 for using FQL and querying FB's database directly. That makes the back end a lot lighter.

I have seen a few services, that crawl your FB page and perform the search on their servers.
Yup. I had this sort of problem once. The code for an interactive television set-top box was written in a pseudo-assembler-ish language. It had been built and designed by French-Canadians and the assembler acronyms were based on French words.

Having pretty much zero French myself this was often non-trivial for me :-)

(Fascinating hardware though. This was pre-digital interactive television. Ran on four separate analog signals with the set-top box switching between them based on the code and what the user did. Ran on the Videotron cable network in the UK for a while before they were swallowed up into CWC. If any UK Videotron viewers remember things like "Gone to the Dogs" I worked on those :-)
That seems like a problem for the regular budget to sort out: Soc. Sec. basically has the money it needs for some decades, but the rest of the budget either needs significant cuts or tax hikes so that it can pay back Soc. Sec. what it owes it.

I don't think it's an acceptable option to retroactively say that some of the Soc. Sec. taxes won't be paid back to Soc. Sec., and just kept for the general fund. If that happened, then it's basically been a regressive income tax all along, contrary to Reagan's assurances in 1983 that he wasn't making a regressive change to the tax code, because of the bonds. If that is likely to happen, then at least the regressiveness should be fixed ASAP by removing the $110k cap, because the only justification for the cap is that the money is earmarked for Social Security.
So all the libertarian sea-steading, private space missions and transhumanist Singularity madness isn't politics but just neutral science, right?