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Microsoft unveils Office 2013 Consumer Preview
huh. I thought that France didn't have birthright citizenship like the US has. I thought they had a system more like what some of the more radical right wing parties in the US want, where your parent's status has something to do with it, you know, to prevent 'anchor babies.' Hm. According to the wikipedia[1], it's complicated, and I strongly suspect I'm missing some things. It looks to me like they have a 'right of blood' system until you reach the age of majority, then something a little more like a 'right of soil' system after that. I don't know about everyone, but I started working rather before I reached the age of majority. I mean, I wouldn't have starved, but my education would have been severely dampened if i was not able to get legal work until I was 18.

[1]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_citizenship#Birth_in_Fra...
I'm confused, why would a cache being down cause data loss?

Two months is also not battle tested, perhaps the terminology used here needs to be adjusted...
Short history lesson here then: Until recently installing Windows (except OEM) meant running driver CDs at least for stuff like network drivers (so you could connect to internet to download the updated drivers).
No benchmark, but it's been running in production for over a month and I haven't noticed any significant speed problems. Though admittedly I haven't looked for them.

Domains look awesome!
Of course pc sales are going to be flatter with many other options in the marketplace. I am waiting for Surface however, I will buy windows 8 PC and leap for my kids, the new generation know.
Development Promises Million Times Increase in Computing Efficiency
Telnet ain't dead. It's used by hundreds of thousands, if not millions of networking devices the world over.
True, many Americans have equivalent skillsets, but there aren't nearly enough to rely solely on Americans. A lack of talent is currently constraining economic growth in the SF Bay Area.

Silicon Valley basically would not be what it is today if it were dependent solely (or even largely) on labor performed by American citizens.
Respect Oriented Development
Disclaimer: I'm one of the people on this project.

The point of this project is not to convince women to go into tech, that is completely out of scope. The point is to help women that are qualified but don't interview well or know how to deal with some of the issues unique to women that either raise eyebrows or can cause confusion in an interview.

The women we're targeting include recent graduates, those who left the field for a few months or years to have babies or take care of sick family members, and women who may have been driven out of other positions by sexual harassment (nobody wants a troublemaker, and they do always ask why you left your previous position).
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HTTP Status Codes and APIs: how the Guardian's Content API does it
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Although I can't count the amount of times I've seen people say it's "creepy" to talk to strangers in the street.
Not quite, Android's non-hardware specific parts are more of a patchset. The kernel is still Linux.
I grew up cutting lawns, doing landscaping with my Dad. Now I'm in a 9 - 5 job, I often dream of simply escaping this programming world, growing something, and applying my IT skills to get the best of both worlds.

It feels like I'm missing the world, by being behind a computer 8 hours a day, 5 days a week. In the end, it all just doesn't seem very fulfilling.

Programming has always been a passion, and a hobby. I always wonder if I've made the mistake of combining it with a career.
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The moment the rate is adjusted and it rises above inflation he could just pay it off in full.
I've heard that in Scandinavia, a lot of people still go to church for social contact even though most of them are agnostic/atheist.
"We have also learned that a protocol which delivers the goods can replace all competition in virtually no time."

This is an argument for websockets eating protocol lunch.
Why does a language have to have advanced whatever features if it does the job, i.e. if it's good enough to write most of a cross-platform app in a maintainable manner while producing efficient code?

Note: I am not a haxe user and would be interested in comments of actual users with respect to the compiler's reliability. My personal conception is that it is quite difficult to define a stable language that defines exactly the same on all targets.
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The NexxPhase preview dialer is a perfect fit for centers that primarily handle inbound calls, but need some outbound capability for call-backs and outbound campaigns.
(These are just my opinions as web developer. Please feel free to downvote if my expectations are wrong)

While I can completely agree with the technical merits of this proposal, there are some very two-faced statements.

Author begins by pointing out the painfulness of IPv4 to IPv6, says that the next HTTP upgrade should be humble. But then proceeds to kill cookies and remove all the architectural problems in HTTP. Isn't that the same what IPv6 was? Wouldn't such an approach produce the same amount of pain to the implementors (that is us, the web developers)?

Any upgrade will certainly have some backward-incompatible changes. But if it is totally backward incompatible, I don't understand why it still needs to be called HTTP. Couldn't we just call it SPDY v2 instead, or some other fancy name?

Cookies are a problem. But the safest way to solve that problem is in isolation. Try to come up with some separate protocol extension, see if it works out, throw it away if it doesn't. But why marry the entire future of HTTP with such a do-or-die change?

I blindly agree with the author that SPDY is architecturally flawed. But why is it being advocated in such big numbers? Even Facebook (deeply at war with Google) is embracing it. It's because SPDY doesn't break existing applications. Just install mod_spdy to get started. But removing cookies? What happens to the millions of web apps deployed today, which have $COOKIE and set_cookie statements everywhere in the code? How do I branch them out and serve separate versions of the same application, one for HTTP/1.1 and another for HTTP/2.0?

More doubts keep coming... Problem with SPDY compressing HTTP headers? Use SPDY only for communication over the internet. Within the server's data center, or within the client's organization - keep serving normal HTTP. There are no bandwidth problems within there. Just make Varnish and the target server speak via SPDY, that is where the real gains are.

I could go on. I'm not trying to say that the author's suggestions are wrong. They are important and technically good. But the way they should be taken up and implemented, without pain to us developers, doesn't have to be HTTP/2.0. Good ideas don't need to be forced down others throats.
Unless I'm wrong, they are talking about Office 365 which is their web app version of Office.

I'm thinking that by the time the new version of Office is released, Google will make their website more tablet friendly, or beef up Google Drive for tablets to be more than just a document viewer.
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If you keep to nVidia, you usually get decent performance and decent drivers. ATI is a very different story, that is true.
I think it is great that Microsoft are working hard to try and get people to move off a product that has passed its 'sell by' date (see obligatory reference to the "IE6 is like old milk" campaign they ran http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/05/16/microsoft_rotten_mil...).
Speaking of peace and bliss, I think singing is one of the best parts of religion (for the musically inclined).

Instrumental and a cappella groups are great for making friends, although I'm kind of worried where I'll find such groups after graduating college.
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The trouble is, none of this (with the exception of childbirth, and there are plenty of stay-at-home Dads) is gender-specific.

Unfortunately, all continuing to enforce how special women are (either positively or negatively, in this case) is to keep women thinking they need specialised tools to succeed.

As a man, no one taught me how to interview well, or come back to the workforce after taking an extended break to care for someone else, or to be driven out of a position due to bullying (much more common than sexual harassment because it is much subtler). Why do you feel the need to single-out women for such general issues?
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Frankly many problems addressed by these proposals are not things that should be solved in a protocol like HTTP.
Do you want every HTTP request to be slowed down with a crypto token exchange and verification? unlikely. In special cases you definately want it, but all the time? Absolutely not.
> I think it's incredibly important to remember that the plural of "anecdote" is not "data".

Honestly, where is the barrier between the two? I'm not suggesting it doesn't exist, just genuinely asking where it is, or at least where it's near?
"My maternity leave will be a few weeks long and I'll work throughout it."

http://postcards.blogs.fortune.cnn.com/2012/07/16/mayer-yaho...
Lots of people would be upset if you took their photograph without asking. It's a bit discourteous.
I can`t accept the story without questioning the part with the buffer. I looked at the pictures and thought, this buffer must have been very huge to record all those images. Watching the full buffer content would be interesting.
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HN is no place for a racist dick. Kindly fuck off.

[edited to add - I expect downvotes or even a ban for my language. I will find a way of coping with my grief, so don't worry about it]
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Vardavar: All you Need is a Bucket Full of Water
There are some holidays that belong to the “must-experience” group of holidays. The most popular one among them is Vardavar, when people pour water on each other. The mood and the atmosphere of the day is unexplainable. One should, or rather, must experience the fun and joy that the holiday offers. The funny thing is that there are no rules for the game.
Starbucks apologizes to its Argentine customers on Twitter, creates PR crisis
If the browser created the unique identifier instead of the server it could create a new one as often as necessary.

I think that would actually work very nicely.
Nowhere did I suggest the message was cohesive. It is very much an arena of competing propaganda. The mention of a unified conspiratorial message was a strawman introduced by tptacek, not I.

As for your complaint about the sinister tone, I think offering deference to those with money rather than those with truth is quite sinister. I think it's sad you disagree.
What's wrong with relying on A/B testing to inform design? In my opinion, except for the whole Google+ unifying process going on most Google products are highly usable.
The first iPhone was released in the beginning of 2007. The first litigation against Htc was 3 years later. I consider the original phone an innovation but since then Apple has not done much, and to the bystander it looks like they can only compete through the courts nowadays.
An important consideration is that forcing the first line on the HTTP2.0 server can actually really hurt it. I mostly agree with Kamp's considerations on HTTP routers, and not having all data necessary for routing at fixed offsets in the packet instantly makes their jobs harder.

The very least, you want the server-provided identity header to be before all the variable-length fields, because in normal situations, most high-throughput servers will be able to fully route their traffic on it alone.
I don't know what you mean by 'leakable' exactly, but you can already mark cookies as HttpOnly (not accessible from Javascript) and Secure (only transmitted over HTTPS).
Flagged. How is this relevant to hacker news? Looks, feels and navigates like any ol' ecommerce fashion site. Is there anything technically interesting about this? If so, can you blog about that and then let the curious browse your homepage instead of just linking to the home page directly.
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They could have implemented it using a simple decorator for non var-args methods which personally I think is more attractive.

Obviously you still pay the cost at run-time but at least the actual source looks more sensible that way.
No. Ipv6 is Ipv4 with bigger addresses, it didn't try to solve any of the other problems of IPv4 (or attempts to solve them were killed by ISPs).

One example was multihoming (having more than one ISP) serveral smart proposals were floated (anycast, nearcast etc) but they were killed by ISP's who protected a lucrative business.

If Ipv6 had made multi-ISP multihoming possible without all the trouble of BGP, business would have killed to get it back in the late 1990ies.

Cookies only disappear from the wire, they are trivial to simulate on your server (see my other reply here).
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Yikes - sounds very similar to trying to deploy Java desktop apps. Not a pleasant experience. Why don't they just bake the AIR runtime into the original download? Sure it would be bigger and you'd end up with duplicate copies, but almost anything is better than trying to get end users to download runtimes.
The fact that humans exist proves no such thing and don't ever let anyone tell you THAT. The government can't stop 9/11, how are they going to prevent people from knowing about hyper intelligent (well at least magically powerful) aliens?

Let's say you're proto-L. Ron Hubbard from the Marcab planet. You're a racecar driver, things are going great. Bang. You get recruited into Super Crush All Known Physics Astronaut Troope. You're commander, Xenu (ok I'm playing loose with Scientology fiction), decides "Hey, we rock and can travel at (speed of light)^1000000000 in our massless spaceships (not DC-10s, for those playing at home), so why don't we travel Earth (can't spell the Tegeeak word), and camoflauge as either several little balls of light, or 1950s inspired discs and just fly around at Subsonic speeds in Earth's atmosphere and just invite wide speculation as to what we are and maybe let the little creature's weird "government system" scurry around to hide all the evidence that we exist to the other the little creatures."

Does this even make sense? If you were proto-L. Ron Hubbard, wouldn't you say "Hey Xenu, we're the freaking masters of the universe, we can fold all of space time into our cool PDAs and play mega awesome Minecraft like games with, why would we do something stupid like that?"
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> More doubts keep coming... Problem with SPDY compressing HTTP headers? Use SPDY only for communication over the internet.

That's not good enough. The big problem is that you need the headers to properly route the request to the correct server. So for most operations, there will have to be one machine that is capable of reading all the headers of all the requests that arrive. gzipping the headers makes the job of this machine much, much harder.
DWM is going to be rewritten in Go.
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As kondro said, you should definitely consider aiming such a project at all genders. Of course you need a selling point and if that's "getting more women into tech" then so be it, but your project could provide huge value to both women and men. From your description it sounds great.
Decorative visual information is still information and how much you can fit in a screen depends on it's resolution not dpi. To enjoy smoother visuals you just have to move away a bit from big screen.
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I think because people believe at this point it is taken that failing at Yahoo would hardly be surprising. For 2 reasons: 1) the company is in much worse shape (especially in reputation) than it was when previous CEOs failed to turned things around and 2) after a bunch of people try and fail the stigma of failing is likely to be reduced. Also here reputation is so positive that failing at a task many think is going to be hard not to fail at, won't likely turn those thinking well of her around.

Now she could fail in ways that are so bad that it does harm her reputation, certainly. I tend to agree with those that think as long as she doesn't fail for reasons that make her look really bad, her reputation won't suffer too much.

Also if Yahoo is marginally successful she may get an outsized boost - due to others failing to do even that.
The DMCA safe harbor provisions are a net good. Without them, YouTube could not exist because they'd be held liable for content on their site that infringes copyrights. The takedown and challenge process could be better, but calling for politicians to "get rid of DMCA" is bad for the internet.
You are right. I haven't properly thought that through.
No worries, I certainly appreciate the credit. It's a small amount of code, but I like to think it's pretty clever, so I'm pretty proud of it.

If your kegbot works it will be more successful than mine ever was!
While it does sound absurd, it should not be ruled out. Absurdity is a frame of reference and relative to our own knowledge and advancement. So a jumbo jet or even an LCD TV would seem absurd to someone living as recently as 200 years ago. So what could a species that is millions of years ahead of us, do is hard to fathom, let alone put limits on. The funny thing is most scientists on the one hand do accept that the universe must be teeming with life. What they just cannot accept is that it maybe be visiting planet earth. Why not? The standard argument is that the speed of light places limits on how far one can travel, the nearest star being 4 light years, it would take thousands or millions of years to travel the distance (the FTL argument). And yet the very same scientists, advance theories of wormholes, 10-dimemsional space-time, alternate universes that may exist right next to us. All of which may be harnessed by a species millions of years ahead of us to permit them to jump across space-time or even dimensions.
I've been to Paris many a time and have friends there. The French cab drivers and people working in restaurants are known for their extremely rude behavior. Even the French hate them! I've been called a faggot by one waiter for ordering tea instead of coffee. (I was dining with two girls). Another waiter in the freaking LOUVRE MUSEUM tried to buy drugs from me. You know, just because I'm from Holland I must be carring pot. I don't know why but don't judge France and the French by visiting only Paris.
Ask HN: Should we hire a designer or try ourselves?
Hi fellows. We're on the early stages of our startup, right now with a limited amount of resources that should be spent wisely. We think that the the look and feel of a website (or everything else, for that matter) has a great impact on the user's experience and designing it is one of the most important tasks we currently have.
One of us has some experience in HTML and CSS and can get more proficient in it if needed, but he is a software developer and not a designer... So we ask ourselves, if any of you ever been in that situation before, what did you do? did you try designing yourself with some templates/from scratch or hired a pro to do the work?

Thanks!
1) First, I am speaking from an assumption I hold that hiring people to work for you of all stripes, which means moving beyond the cis-white-males that are more common, leads to better teams, better products and better execution.

2) I usually think about non-standard channels for hiring, or assistance/boosting programs such as this focused on women (as one example of minorities in the tech field) because almost all of industry is subtly or not so subtly biased towards the majority. The ways you relax with coworkers, the non-programming personal attributes that are assessed in interviews, the similarity bias interviewers have to pick people like themselves. These are not intentional acts of sexism, but are nonetheless prevalent.
The problem with any hypothesis that involves Earth being visited by extraterrestrials isn't the almost unthinkably large distances involved, it's the timescales involved.

For any two given planets in the galaxy that could support intelligent life, in all likelihood the technological progress of those lifeforms will not align, and it won't be close. Imagine one civilization encountering another, except the first is 50,000 years more technologically advanced. Or 500,000 years. Or 5 million years. What would happen?

The more advanced civilization wouldn't be playing games to keep from being discovered, that's for sure. They wouldn't care. Even visiting the planet would be a total waste of time since with that level of technology they could certainly observe from afar.
I couldn't agree more. I had this discussion with several people during Djangocon EU, where we had several talks at the conference about women in the community.

People doesn't care about gender, they care about good code.
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It seems that he removed or never stored related images on his glogger profile.

http://glogger.mobi/u_noscript.php?u=mann&y=2012&m=7
Yes, I have read that book and several others on the subject and have been blown away. As both an open-minded and scientifically minded skeptic, it would be intellectually dishonest - even foolish - to deny that something extraordinary is going on that is worthy of investigation by science. While most cases can be explained away, about 5% of the cases deserve further study. For example, there are well documented cases of objects spotted moving at speeds of 20 or 30,000 miles per hour and making right angle turns and other impossible maneuvers, backed by both air and ground radar readings, and dozens of eyewitnesses. Or of massive objects the size of a football field gliding at low speeds, with no sound at all, over an entire city, and observed by hundreds of people. Something strange is going on in our skies, and sadly mainstream science and media are dismissing it, even ridiculing it.