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> Go lets you pass around raw values without overhead.

Does that rely on heuristics like escape analysis or is it user defined (and predictable)?
Not sure there is much better out there for pushing continuous engagement. I want to keep people interested in my business, I don't want to overdo the mailing list though, especially not for little things that work much better as a small Facebook post.
Totally agree about the debt problem. Its a ticking bomb and theres a lot of pain ahead in store for Japan's economy.
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What's your favorite API to develop with?

To start with some low-hanging fruit: I love Twilio; it's dead simple to use and tons of fun to work with.
But HP would never attempt to maximize for profit right? The memristor is going to be its gift to humanity in the same way they've kept ink-jet and toner prices right above their costs.

I think that statement about spending more (time or money?) studying the market than doing research is pretty sad.
for most cases where this happens - make sure you enter a valid password by typing it in and not via copy n paste - we only allow signups if real people entered the password.. we're gonna put up a dialog to say this v. soon
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I believe your assumption is correct. I have interviewed over 100 candidates and have generally found that people who list a lot of things often do not know them well.

Unfortunately, CV's talk about skills and experience people have, while the person I want to hire is someone with higher intelligence and solid foundation who can pick up new things fast. I have not observed any correlation (positive or negative) between the number of skills people list and pure intelligence.
I would rather it present me with more status update noise than keep missing heap. Given the option I would prefer more statuses from people I have added as friends than more page/ "100,000 people have liked this picture" spam
Not to put words in your mouth, but it sounds like you're doing your PhD because you can't think of anything better to do. That doesn't exactly seem like a recipe for happiness.
I wonder what resolution we can have on this 7inch tablet?
Where is the information on the adobe plugin you are using to do screensharing? Looked into doing it before but had to use java- Would love to play with the adobe version but I thought it was lifecycle only....
Exactly, it has nothing to do with negativity. What people generally mean is: "It's almost impossible to prove a universal proposition." This is because doing so would involve examining all things to which that proposition would apply.

That's equally difficult whether you're trying to prove that "All swans are white" or "No swans are black": the only ways to conclusively prove either involve examining large numbers of objects.
The US is a political gorilla, sure, but that doesn't invalidate what the article is talking about.
Yes she has, she's been making it since march of 2011. They are all up on youtube, check them out. The kickstarter was to make more videos.
I think the social issues will work themselves out pretty quickly once people get used to it. When instant messaging was new, the same discomfort existed.
Even when you have your own business you are always working for someone else, customers or shareholders are your bosses. Dont fool yourself.
Even for a hacker news reader the U.S. might not be unequivocally the best place to live. For example I would like to live in the U.S. (perhaps not forever, but at least for some time). There are a couple of things that don't make it a clear cut choice, even if you only consider purely selfish factors:

- healthcare: a large health bill or something that the insurance refuses to pay for can still wreck your life

- very religious

- high HIV rates

- gun ownership

- cycling unfriendly

- social safety net (because even hacker news readers can have bad luck, especially when you do something risky like starting a company)

- and of course more important things like distance from friends & family, but that's not a property of the U.S. in itself

None of these are show stoppers per se, and perhaps they are irrational fears, but they can tip the scales in favor of other places despite the big bonus points that the U.S. get in other areas.
What it sounds like is not that Americans are worse at expressing affection, but rather express affection in different ways. Fist-bumps, handshakes, high fives, even a head bob is a very obvious way to show someone you recognize their existence and are glad to see them. In America, kissing is not a sign of friendly affection, but a sign of romantic affection. It's a small cultural difference, but the feelings expressed are exactly the same.

Making the claim that Americans are not affectionate because they don't kiss as a friendly greeting is the same as saying the Germans can't communicate just because I can't understand their language. Insisting on speaking English to a non-English-speaking person would be just as rude and out of place as insisting on kissing an American acquaintance.
+1 Right on. I agree that the petition will do little practical good but I still signed it and sent a request to my family and friends to do the same.
Aficionados of weird co-incidence might be interested to learn that the researcher who discovered the memristor, Leon Chua, also has a daughter who is rather famous for having written "Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amy_Chua). Leon Chua is also an enthusiast of Stephen Wolfram's NKS, and spoke at one of the early NKS conferences.
IIRC you store taste preferences per-user – is it possible to have different subsets of people order food each day?
Are there petitions for poverty and healthcare somewhere?
My employer has "roaming" wifi. I can walk around, change floors, change buildings and not lose connection. I don't know how they do it. It's very cool.

Compared to... I was contracting at AT&T Wireless for a few months. Worst enterprise IT I've experienced. Getting a desk phone to work was near impossible. No one could access their voicemail. No voicemail - email bridge. The in-house chat/voice conferencing didn't work (stutter, dropped connections, couldn't login). You'd lose wifi connection walking down the hall, requiring full reauthentication for everything (signin, VPN, db connections, etc).
Can you point to a court ruling to back your statement that "Grooveshark does not respect the terms of those licenses either"?

I realize that there are a lot of lawsuits alleging that, but as far as I know they are all still pending and nothing of the sort has been established in court. That makes your statement premature, at best.
You should both read up on the history of the French Revolution, as well as the definition of the word "conceived". Yes, the parent was off in calling out the French Revolution specifically, but the actual statement made was spot-on.

The American Revolution was, in fact, built on earlier and contemporaneous ideas, found in myriad writings of mostly non-American Enlightenment thinkers who had been working out various new, altered, subversive, or otherwise novel ideas, studies, and classifications in political theory (among other topics) for nearly 125 years before American founders built upon them in both the Articles of Confederation and the US Constitution. A basic review of political theory in the Age of Enlightenment would both confirm for you the correctness of the parent's statements (despite the errant inclusion of the French Revolution), as well as help you see exactly where the American Revolution got the whole of its ideas. America's founders very much imbibed on the Enlightenment, particularly works of political theory.

The French Revolution was not in any way "conceived of" as a result of the American Revolution. Instead, it had been growing in its own specifically French/European manner among the salons and their philosophes, and was quite in step with the march of Enlightenment across much of Western Europe. Ultimately this was brought to a head when, seeing that the Americans' disregard for English rule was something they, too, could emulate in order to bring Enlightenment ideals to practical fruition in France, shit got started in the Estates-General in May 1789 (just two months after the Constitution replaced the Articles of Confederation, bringing the fully Montesquieu-esque political system into reality).

I apologize if I seem overly pedantic, but when you call out someone to check a timeline based on two words in an otherwise sound comment that added something to the discussion, you should at least ensure you have your own timeline correct--particularly if you are going to be bandying about the idea that Historical Event X "was not even conceived of until after" Historical Event Y. History rarely works like that, especially when it is happening but a handful of years apart.

Ultimately, what Abbé Sieyès said in his famous pamphlet, "What is the Third Estate?", is so applicable to both revolutions as to further indicate that a revolutionary wave was both forming and interacting on both sides of the Atlantic (trans-Atlantic intellectual and cultural history is an eye-opening field of study):

"What is the Third Estate? Everything. What has it been until now in the political order? Nothing. What does it want to be? Something."

The Americans espoused the same sentiment. Neither the American founders nor the Estates-General were owners of that idea, though. They both took it from 125 years of hundreds of intellectuals hammering it out.

EDIT: Formatting & a couple extraneous words.
Creepy shit. If I want to acknowledge a post, I can already comment on it, or do a passive like. And how exactly does fb decide that something was seen? I might not even have bothered to read the entire message. Is there any way to "unsee" it?

I feel that social contracts and relationships that people have are more complex than what fb models them to be. And leaving these imprints without any control over them is just gonna result in awkward moments.
When a US president can cause significant economic problems because you refuse to join in war with them, it tends to make them a bit more important. All the rhetoric spewed by the US executive about 'with us or against us' created the 'freedom fries' debacle and lots of open hostility of anything French by many Americans.

The US is an important country and always will be, but the article is saying that there's weird things about the country that he recognises, not that it's a banana republic that doesn't know it yet.
Could be.

Could also be related to Mountain Lion having Twitter integration all over the place. Seems like that would render all the hours of dev time to create this program pointless unless they can release early and get some market share before ML.
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In theory, yes. But in reality, they can pressure you not to take too long of a vacation, limiting your opportunities to go abroad on vacation, for example.
> most people in the world don’t really think about us or care about us

The only times I've glanced an eye across the pond is when something incredible stupid happens.
Examples:
George bush gets elected,
George bush gets elected again,
Vote against free health care,
Illegal wars for resource grabbing.

Gonna be down voted massively for this but its important to understand we don't always pay attention because your doing something right, quite often its the opposite.
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Am I the only one who doesn't own a TV anymore?

It isn't because I'm pretentious or don't believe in TV, it is just that when my television broke, I realized my laptop had replaced it for almost everything already.

I can easily imagine a day when other people won't own one either for the same reason. The idea of buying a television just to play games strikes me as... expensive.

That said, I do know of someone who bought a TV just for her xbox.
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At Parse we started using ZeroCater with just 9-10 people by ordering the minimum food for 15 and splitting it with others or giving some away. Totally worth it.
Vote for "someone else" and don't buy into the two-party system. Our votes are basically ineffectual anyway.
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The Telekom (parent of T-Mobile) has been doing that as well in Germany, although they are not free. Berlin has probably almost full coverage.
I spent many happy hours reading _The Amateur Scientist_ in my Dad's pile of SciAms. I was never brave enough (or had enough pocket money) to build much, especially the high voltage gizmos that required, as a rule, a "Model T spark transformer." That was just terrifying.

I built a Hilsch vortex tube out of plexiglass, some washers and some extra pipe. Mostly it just whistled obnoxiously; I needed a better source of compressed air than my bicycle pump and a small reservoir could provide.

I also built a spectrometer, with a transmission grating I got from my science teacher. That was nifty.

I miss this stuff. We are a poorer nation for losing it. "Make" magazine might fill in for the gizmo aspect of things, but not so much the science.

Pardon me, I have to chase the kids off my lawn. :-)
This change kind of does that too, though.
I can report that there are a large portion of people in the UK at least who do obsess about america, its culture and its politics.

I mean, it's hard not to at times. Not wishing to be rude, but there is often something of the car crash about it, especially magnified through the media/internet lens.
"I did encounter some serious hate from some Canadians there, though..."

This is a very unfortunate side-effect of the cultural and physical proximity between these nations. Most Canadians don't travel to the states, but they do get almost all American media on their radios and TVs, producing a distorted (and somewhat negative) view of America and the average American. What the media portrays and the reality on the ground are often quite different.
I speak up and say they're bad because I think signing these petitions uses up what little political activity the typical citizen is willing to exert. If they sign this, they're goign to be less likely to pressure their representatives directly, which, as we've seen from lobbyists, is the only way to get anything done.
Yea, EAP-TLS was one of the oldest EAP methods, and the client certificate is actually optional per the spec, though most supplicants require it (using a dummy cert is the workaround).
What does 'directly assigned' mean? If the uploader sets it then it's going to be set on all the pirate files and your clause never triggers. If Grooveshark sets it then they're going to have to manually inspect every upload. Neither of these helps any artist. Nobody is going to get paid for an $8-per-hour radio. Grooveshark would go out of business and help noone.
Not if you don't ignore cert warnings.
Facebook's view of ads is that it's a conversation.

Google's view of ads is that it's information.

Either way you're going to find we're entering a world where ads are naturally integrated into everything and sometimes you do want it.
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I generally list all the skills in my resume that I have had in the past, even if I am not 100% comfortable during an interview. (This means that I can re-learn the skill fast enough though some interviewers often fail to see that.)
If an author is unable to communicate his message in the headline

The author is writing a title appropriate for the location the article is posted at. That context may be critical and is missing once the article winds up on HN.

The fixing effect is in my opinion positive.

I would say it is net positive, but that doesn't mean there aren't cases that are significantly negative.

The top news stories don't look like a shouting match where the scariest story wins.

This is a false dichotomy. We can have sane editing of titles that give us context without leaving shouting matches.
Never!
wxWidgets is too ugly. And it's similar to MFC.
GTK+? I never got GTK+ compiled, there were so many dependencies, so many linking errors.
They are advertising this as a platform for existing indie games because these will be the easiest to get ported over.

I'm sure their wet dream for this is to get an exclusivity deal for a big juicy AAA title.
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where's Facebook going with this, seriously?

I already leave almost every group I'm forced into(cause I can't chose if someone 'invite me' to it), the two I decided to keep I barely ever look and have to change the settings so that shit stops notifying me for stupid shit I'm not interested

Also, I had been aching to silence(unsub) everyone in there because it just feel like a fucking noisy echo chamber with almost nothing that's remotely relevant... So.. I've probably already 'silenced' a big part of them, and then I ended up using a Chrome extension to just hide all that Wall crap out of there, because the chat is the only thing I can take some value of on this site.

But the experience is still pretty bad because I also keep getting notifications for event and game invites I don't want at all and also, for what people post in events I never RSVPed. In fact, I almost never even bother opening the event page. I'm a party dude, but I'll just care about events at the moment I want to go out. I also cannot stop notifications from invites, only for specific people, after I refuse a single invite and then 2 or 3 clicks into it(to stop invites from ONE person)

Facebook, you suck hard and you're going down soon I'm sure. I wish you didn't sucked so much because I'm getting wary I'll have to start untangling my future app from your API sooner than I expected.
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We were a ZeroCater customer and actually switched to Cater2.me.

Service-wise, they are both pretty much equal with Cater2.me maybe having less repeats and being a little more friendly to special needs (vegans, gluten allergies, etc). Our office manager is on some kind of mailing list for other office managers and said there seemed to be widespread trend of offices switching to Cater2.me.
Now I know what I have to do. Thanks for the link.
That's good to know, and I'm really trying not to look a gift horse in the mouth because libgdx is awesome, but you should probably know that saying "use SVN" is really close to saying "don't contribute to my project." libgdx is literally the only project I use that uses SVN and I almost didn't use it because SVN makes hacking on code viciously unpleasant.
Then I'm happy to free you from your skepticism: that's what the courts have determined. Grooveshark has safe harbor. It's a fact.
They would also cost 30% more.
the free-food culture is so ingrained in the tech world that it would be much harder to eliminate there.

free food in tech startups isn't free at all. You (as the employee) are just donating more time & money to the employer.

I'm fortunate enough to work for a company that has a fabulous suite of cafeterias that host a huge variety of foods, but in the startup world, free food just felt like the NYC power lunches of the 80's
> In America, women usually get incredibly nervous and confused when I do this. They’ll make jokes to defuse the situation or sometimes ask me if I’m part of a TV show or something playing a prank.

Hm, I see this as largely part of the way the media in the U.S. portrays random communication between strangers: it must be malicious behaviour. When I'm in the U.S. striking up conversations with strangers and my friends there think I'm crazy. I'm just not american, which maybe gives me a buffer (and something to talk about).
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Yeah, in visiting other countries, my impression is that the average person is way happier with life, regardless of their financial standing. This in turn makes me happier. I'd be happy to pay way more in taxes in the US to support that kind of living environment.

It's hard to realize the difference it makes without traveling and meeting lots of people when you do so, though, and the tragedy is that the current system in the US doesn't allow most people the resources to travel and educate themselves, which seems to negatively effect the chances of having a well educated voting populace.
>there's no such thing as "UK libel law," since Scots law is different //

If we're being pedantic shouldn't it be England-and-Wales libel law?
By "directly assigned" I mean the case where Grooveshark and a third party rightsholder (record label, artist, etc.) have a deal in place covering the respective track.
.aspx? Did not see that coming.
I liked it and all, but the submit button on the last screen (where I'm actually supposed to convert and sign up) isn't working.
My model of human beings is that we are usually much quicker to get emotionally involved in something than to become informed about it.
There are some peculiarities with the `with` statements, but mainly it is just dog-slow compared to a standard lookup. Last time I checked it was 200-300 times slower to use the `with` statement rather than just doing an `obj.key` lookup.

If nothing else, surely it should be avoided in production purely for performance reasons.
it was a feature and I planned to use it in some way, didn't even know it was gone... did not understand where did this come from
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try this - in your chrome://plugins/ page enable the non-chrome built-in flash (the one that has Location: /Library/Internet Plug-Ins/Flash Player.plugin) and disable the chrome built-in flash - this may be a quick fix for now until we figure out why the built-in version is playing up
We started out with ZC and switched to Cater2.me after a few months. Turns out a better website doesn't translate to better food or service, who knew? Also Cater2.me just updated their site and seems to be putting more effort in on that side now. That makes sense to me. Food quality and customer service should be the focus, not the logo or even the UI.
Perhaps, the dynamics of a system like that are impossible to fathom beyond abstractions, especially if you've never observed a similar situation (I haven't). If it asymptotically reaches a relatively small subset of all renters, and it never becomes the main place renters go, then I don't think there will be a tipping point.
Holy wow, I was dying for something like this just last week. My far-dispersed friends and I usually hang out on Ventrilo, which has no support for echo cancellation. Even Mumble's echo cancellation is insufficient for our needs. For some reason, Google+ Hangouts have the best echo cancellation of any product I have ever seen. I'm really dying to know how they do it.
that's not how percentages work. If Apple takes a 30% cut of your price, then you have to raise your price by 42.8% to still make the same amount of money.
It does look pretty great. But I have to wonder what happens when the first marketing guy sets it to autorun and disables the backspace key ;<).
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Indeed, I'm almost convinced of this. My advisor invited me to work with him then I got excited by the idea of doing something more complex than what I was doing. I wasn't really thrilled by getting into school again, but I guess it was good to my ego :P

A year passed and the freshness faded away. Now I'm struggling to get things done because I really don't see a point in what I am doing.
I don't know if I'm going to drop out yet, but if I do it won't take long to happen.

Well, at worst I guess I'm learning what not to do :)
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