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I've found another company for Whoshere to sue!! They should go full speed after those guys: http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/whos-hiding-preschool/id39633...
Nice idea, but the quality and/or the breadth of languages it knows about leaves much to be desired.

The first language I tried was Forth. I have yet to find a piece of code that it recognizes as such. For example the example from http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?ExampleForthCode gets a 'VHDL, could also be VBSCRIPT'

My next attempt was PostScript. I copied http://www.science.uva.nl/~robbert/ps/bluebook/program_01.ht... (which starts with the giveaway line "%!PS-Adobe-2.0"), and it says 'RUBY, could also be MEL'

I guess that the thing would look better of with some kind of thresholding that allows it to say 'I don't know, but if I had to guess, I would say RUBY or MEL' instead.
Gets annoying at time: in French, some people drop "tu vois" (you see), "j'veux dire" (I mean), "et tout" (and all that) everywhere. For some people it gets close to an actual speech disorder :)
Nice. It is actually quite important to understand view-ports to efficiently design your web-apps these days.

I think it would be nice to add definitions about css pixels, device pixels and scaling also, to help understanding how @media-queries or head declarations would work.
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I already have Asterisk/FreePBX running on my Pi and had setup an RPi Wiki page ready for some notes, but work was curtailed due to hospitalization so would you consider popping in some something, or a link, from your excellent guide. I was just working on getting DAHDI going to support conferencing and see how the board coped with that - did you get that far?
Here and there I read, a lot of people talking positively of Metro UI; I watch again and again; I find it so ugly and cheap that I am surprised; am I really too far away from the average taste. In short, I bet Metro will be a catastrophe for MS.
>>You place a lot of emphasis on intentionality.

It is quite unusual in not seeing a difference with killing someone by losing control of your car on the way to hospital with a hurt child -- and shooting an unarmed civilian in the face...

>>Many military actions are undertaken knowing full well the result with be civilian causalities, often many

Most westerners do believe in war laws. Here is an US-critical article. Compare it with e.g. the militias in Iraq or Hezbollah. They shoot artillery at cities, etc.

You see no difference in that -- as was noted, it makes you not only in a minority, but also arguing the same position as people that really murder children point blank. You ignore all other laws too?

http://www.lrb.co.uk/v25/n04/michael-byers/the-laws-of-war-u...
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"That thing we're illegally doing to other countries, they might do to us, it's not fair!"
The most interesting information in here to me by far:

> In an interesting twist, it was discovered that the Stuxnet
> malware group makes use of device drivers which were digitally
> signed to make them appear as though they originated from
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Should be greater a modal link (fancybox or facebox) with trailer! This project is awesome!!!!

It's available code via Github??
I don't mean to generalize, but this is my own experience.

Sincerely, I don't know how the US manages to be the second most touristic country in the world. Travelling to the US can be a nightmare - customs, TSA, metal detectors, body scanners, etc. As a tourist, I've never felt as unwelcomed as when travelling there.

Maybe it's just a cultural thing, but I seriously got the feeling that people who work at airports, subway, or any other place that is by definition essential to tourists are unable to communicate without shouting. The fact that in spite of working at such a place most of them don't even speak a second language may contribute to that - it's like people will understand better what you say if you just say it louder.
Not to mention that you are expected to know exactly how everything works, from the local language (which sometimes becomes Spanish) to how much you have to tip, otherwise people will look at you with that "oh, you must be new here" look.

Strangely enough, the common american that you find in the street tends to be relaxed, friendly and always willing to help. People will sometimes start talking to you in a pretty natural and informal way (this wouldn't happen in Europe).

So, tl;dr: services suck but once you are through the trial of idiocy that is getting into the country, you'll most likely have a good time.
When I did exchange I had one teacher who would say ええと (eeto) every second word.
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An aside: As a Greek, I tend to stay away from "Greek" restaurants abroad, because it's almost never Greek food. For example, people here generally eat lamb only once or twice a year, and I didn't know what hummus is until I had it in London (in one such "Greek" restaurant, no less).

I think it's more about the stereotype that is expected of the restaurant rather than actually being authentic. For example, Greek gyros is almost always pork, never lamb. If you get lamb gyros, it's middle-eastern.
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Thank you :) Still working on language detection.
Opposed by content industry, because the new law will stifle commentary on copyrighted materials.

"More than 1,700 artists have signed a petition urging the government to shelve proposed amendments to the Copyright Act, while pro-democracy lawmakers have launched a filibuster campaign to delay its passage into law."

http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/196747/hong-kong-artists-cry-fo...

Besides the raft of new restrictions on copyright (copyright owner now has exclusive right to communication of all forms of reproduction of the work, including satire.), there is an addition of a clause to allow a non-copyright owner to initiate legal action against copyright infringers.

"88C. Notice of a alleged infringement

(1) If it is alleged that an infringement of the copyright in a work has occurred or is occurring on a service provider's service platform, a notice in respect of the alleged infringement may be given to the service provider under this section.

(2) A notice of alleged infringement -

(a) must be in writing;

(b) must be signed or otherwise authenticated by the owner of the allegedly infringed copyright or that owner's authorised representative;

…

(3) A notice of alleged infringement -

(a) must contain the name and address of the complainant and any other information that is reasonably sufficient for contacting the complainant;

…"

http://www.gld.gov.hk/egazette/pdf/20111522/es32011152215.pd...

What is dangerous about this is: The "complainant" could be the government taking action against political satire it doesn't like. The amendment text does say it requires the copyright owner's signature - but if you're a movie studio that regularly send your work to the government to obtain a classification for permission to show your work in theatres / broadcast of TV / sell your work in shops, then I imagine that signature of yours would be quite easy to get.
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This echoes my own experience too, down to the letter. Screw air travel in the US, but people are very friendly, at least in cities I've been.

Hell, the TSA even gave me a free massage!
Getting offended at such a intense level over something that has no appreciable consequence is definitely an issue. It isn't like wifi network names are spray painted on the side of your house.
This very much. iOS users are regularly amazed after seeing the ease of typing with Swype, and are disappointed it is not possible on a regular iPhone/iPad.
Nah. It was definitely just being open about being non-religious. The reaction came from the religious and the non-religious. It also wasn't a north/south thing (I know you didn't mention that - but it's something that's come up when I've commented on this before).
>> Then, someone isn't morally right by being weaker, so different strength have nothing to do with it.

They do. In practice someone is often seen as morally right just because he is stronger than his oponent (politicaly or military or in some other way).
Interesting. Are you willing to share a ballpark ratio of Mac App Store vs web storefront purchases?

I suspect the numbers for a typical app would look something like 5:1 or even higher.
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In addition to the wide variety of foreign cuisine available in many parts of the U.S., there are many different "native" cuisines in different regions of the country. I'm inevitably going to leave out a lot, especially from the places I haven't been to, but here are some exampes. New York has got its pizza (both the Neapolitan and Sicilian styles, neither of which is very similar to the pizza found in Naples or Siciliy), bagels, half sour pickles, and certain cold cuts. Chicago has Italian beef and deep dish pizza. Wisconsin has its cheeses and bratwurst ("brats"). Philadelphia has cheese steak and hot pretzels like no others. Lousisiana has the Creole and Cajun cuisines. There's Tex-Mex and other southwestern cuisine. Lots of places along the east coast have their own very distinct variety of clam chowder, etc. I never realized how much I would miss food from various American cuisines until I lived in China for five months.
It's probably thermal calibration; I had a couple of IBM 10K SCSI disks that used to do that every so often. It sounds like delicate electronics in pain... They lasted for years.

You might be able to get more information from querying the SMART parameters for each drive.
I disagree about Greece, people don't generally tip more than 2-3 euros in restaurants, and usually just round up to the euro for deliveries, if that.

Also: Hey neighbour!
Got my issue this morning as usual, it's always a great read and a good opportunity to revisit stuff that was going on recently. HM is an awesome project, thanks for keeping up the good work!
For those of us with kids and without access to a world-class university this is huge news. I had to study in Spain. Becoming and engineer here was difficult, but the difficulty laid not in the things we had to learn, but in the hoops they made you jump through. With a few exceptions ---there are some great teachers here too-- it was more survival training than a learning experience. Later, when working for HP, I had the opportunity to take Stanford graduate courses. The quality of the teaching was mind-boggling. How lucky these guys are, I kept thinking. Such opportunity!

Of course I jumped at the chance of taking the first AI class, eager to see if it would go towards the (possibly hugely profitable) world-wide higher education framework I was hoping we'd manage to build. I was disappointed by the certificate at the end only mentioning Stanford to make sure that we didn't think this was associated with them in any way. They were clearly not getting it.

But Sebastian Thrun was, and I think Anant Agarwal at MIT is as well. The extremely high teaching standards they have already shown: add a way to give trusted certificates, and this could be the way out for millions of kids throughout the world. And, I assure you, people everywhere _will_ pay for a paper from a trusted source that shows the degree of excellence they or their kids have achieved.
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I really, really want to see a beautiful, open source dashboard app, preferably written with Rails.

So far, I've only seen beautiful but closed source SaaS apps, and pretty ugly open source PHP or Python projects.
I'm very tempted to start my own, but I just wish someone like Panic would open source their awesome design.
I don't think we do this in Greek. Come to think of it, it's weird, when I talk in Greek I use no filler, but when I speak English I litter it with "like" and "you know" like a valley girl. At least I don't say "ohmigod"...
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Here in Israel it's similar, although ten percent are considered okay.

After one year here it still annoys the hell out of me. In Germany you only give a tip if you consider it appropriate. Your service costs exactly what the bill lists, not more. Especially in crappy places a 'forced' tip feels bad and wasted.
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Huh, that's weird. It sounds like they're in agony. SMART indeed reports nothing out of the ordinary, I checked...
For us, it's more in the 4:1 range, but I suspect you still might be right that many apps see a MAS:private sales ratio of 5+:1.

Because we're able to offer bulk and/or educational purchase discounts through our own store, we see a fair number of licenses move through that vector. Other apps might not appeal to bulk and educational markets as much.
A look back to where it all started(?):

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1261499
If you haven't read it, check Mark Twain's essay about the German language.
You'll find that he agrees with you, especially with the 'also'.
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Ok I've actually sat down for 12 hours with Windows 8 now both on a 1998 ThinkPad T61 and a 2011 Sony VPCJ1 multitouch desktop.

Firstly some background - I've been using Windows since 1992. I've spent 15 years now developing software on the platform, both desktop and web applications in C++ and C#. I also have a Windows Phone.

I actually don't understand why people are complaining about metro and the use cases as I think they are fine.

The way a Windows machine tends to get used these days is that you drag all the apps you want to the taskbar and that is it. Occasionally, you would benefit from some desktop gadgets such as weather etc and occasionally you use global search. If I look at my taskbar, I have:

Windows Explorer, RDP, IE, Firefox, Zune, Excel, Word, VS2010, sticky notes, PuTTY.

What I do on my phone is simply: Messaging, occasionally web browsing and checking the weather.

After 12 hours of Windows 8, I've settled into the following usage pattern that I actually find satisfying:

1. Metro has: weather, news, music on it.

2. Desktop has: everything else.

I spend a lot of time at (2) but switch to (1) if I want a quick status update of the world, which is simply a press of the windows key away and is just there! Also if i want to search for something, I use metro.

Otherwise I use it just like Windows 7.

The intended use case is not to throw metro at the desktop users - it's to augment it.

I don't get all the complaining! I actually like it.
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This is a great alternative to Ramer-Douglas-Peucker. However, it is not quite what I need for my application (where I'm still searching for a good algorithm, maybe I have to develop my own).

The problem is that the area always shrinks (for a convex curve). This is simply because all those polygon simplifiers work by selecting a subset of the points, and removing points (from a convex curve) means that you always "cut corners".

For my application, this is totally undesirable. I'm starting with a convex polygon, and the simplified polygon should fully enclose the original polygon. Thus, the simplified polygon has to consist of points outside the original polygon.

Is there any existing algorithm which accomplishes that? That is, which adds to the (convex) polygon rather than removing from it?
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I don't understand why peoples provide documentation throught github, which is more suitable for source code (or source code of documentation).
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Maybe we can put a list together ourselves - the only startup I know doing this is Treehouse.
I'm not American, from my viewpoint you are applying totally different standards to two sides.

A few levels up, I noted that democracies in general tend to go bat-shit crazy at terrorism -- and that it is probably built into the concept of democracy.

It should also be noted that modern democracies don't fight wars with each others, not even the USA. The best solution for making a better world is to work for democracy, especially in places like China which already has started to push a bit against neighbours.
The new 'iOS' which is still surprisingly developer friendly, despite the attitude it receives on forums such as HN.

iOS, for all of it's failings and deficiencies, still offers one of the finest – if not the finest – development and distribution platforms in the world.

Yes, it's not open. Yes, it's restrictive. Yes, it's censored.

But, perhaps, those qualities are some qualities that make it the most successful software sales vector we've ever seen.

I agree it's not perfect. But to say it's not developer friendly is quite disingenuous. The iOS development toolchain is actually quite powerful and flexible (though still faulty), the distribution mechanism is broad and simple (though restrictive and censoring), and I can't think of a single other platform, including the web, that has been as developer friendly. At least for developers who wish to make an income. (Something about which I admit, without any bit of judgement, some developers aren't concerned.)
Works great! Thanks for sharing. Any plans to release something similar for other browsers?
I'm going to guess that was part of their standard "foreigner moving to the US" package?

One of the parts of that book I remember is that you do not talk to other people while at the urinal.
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Try adding addittional points or even smoothing before running the simplification algorithm.
Drums sound really strange without reverb. If you've ever drummed outside, the difference is really stark - I play outside with my samba band a lot, and all the drums sound really cold and quiet, so you end up playing a lot harder automatically just to get the sound of your drum to be as loud as you're used to. I imagine the anechoic chamber might be similar, with the added effect of not hearing any drum sound which would normally bounce off the floor - do, for example, you'd probably hear very little snare wire sound.
> I wonder how often an above average python/ruby programmer use its metaprogramming / reflection capabitlies?

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Its a neat idea but seems to struggle - misidentifying PHP as BASH, and struggling with Haskell, Go, Clojure, and told me Bash was PERL. I pulled some test code from the What's That Programming Language site which appeared on HN a few weeks ago http://wtpl.heroku.com/.
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And this one too (when we first launched): http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1394526
You know, I think I read the quote wrong. As I read it back I think I agree. Whoops!
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"This looks like css.
It could also be haskell, though. I'm not completely sure."

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Given segments AB BC CD such that the angle between AC and CD is less than 180 degrees, add the candidate point E where AB CD meet when extended. This is always outside a convex polygon. Choose the next candidate to minimize the area of BEC. The resulting polygon is also convex. Iterate.

Once you reach a rectangle or a triangle there will be no more candidates.
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1) It's there, free and available and works pretty well. You don't have to worry about setting up a separate site, etc.

2) Being able to fork, patch, feedback & improve documentation is a good thing :-)
Equity may get diluted on number of shares but the firm gets cash for selling the shares, so each share is worth more than before.

Things to consider are vesting period, option expiration, strike price, price per share.

Personally I would choose equity. Options may be out of the money and never be exercisable. Valuing options for a private company is difficult. You probably don't get to look at financial statements, so you have no idea what the underlying stock is really worth. Without this it's impossible to correctly value the options.

if the company is sold at a low pps, at least with equity you would get something.
This is really important news. It was mostly social engineering hacking, but it seems to have been very clever. It's important to notice that it wasn't a flaw in two factor authentication itself, but on the recovery options.

I really hate the recovery options. I don't know what they are there. If I forgot my password, my recovery e-mail, I don't want to answer questions to be sure it was me. Who knows how this exactly worked, but it sure seems to be a problem with that logic.
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They sent me the NDA copy which states 5 years expiration :) Isn't this something to be done before joining the company and not post quitting? I told them that I have no intention of competing with them nor stealing their ideas/customers. But they are very insistent and almost pestering me now.
Because Python is great. I love it and I'm glad it's being supported. Thanks for your snide remark though.
> No offense to you personally, jellicle, but why is this the top comment and why can't I downvote it?

It's the top comment because HN's formula(votes, time lapsed) ranked it highest; and you can't downvotte replies to your comments.
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The only thing that bugs me about Hacker Monthly is that the authors of the article don't get anything more than a free subscription. Like, even a token $20 would be something. $100 would feel appropriate.

I'm not sure how the cost calculus of the mag would work out if you were to do that, but it's an interesting angle. The best magazines would take the best online articles, pay some pittance, add in graphic design, print 'em and mail 'em.

I think there's something to that idea.
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Delighted to see my article Do Things, Tell People in there, among some amazing company! Kind of self-fulfilling, that one. ;)
In conclusion, the site is a very good idea, but highlight.js is really too bad for this kind of use. Raise a ticket on highlight.js