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I'm an Eve player. I'm a TEST member so for quite a while I've been an allie to the alliance he was a member of but thats not why I know him. I knew VR because he was one of the most well know and well respected diplomats in the complex and amazing game of eve.

For those that don't play the game you have allies(who are called blues) and enemies(reds), and neutrals(greys) TEST(reddit) and Goons(SomethingAwful) always would joke about their ability to shoot blues(allies) for fun. But it would always require a trip to Vile Rat to sort it out.

I didn't know the man personally but I have respected him for a long time in a game that I really enjoy and from that I honestly feel personally connected to him. I have a lot of friends in this game who actually are personally connected to him.

Eve is fun, eve is empires with consequences, eve is taking a risk and losing it all. Something I think the traditional HN crowd would enjoy.

RIP Sean

And condolences to your family and your many friends around the world and all the people that have seen your messages, watched your diplomacy and looked up to your lead.

EDIT: for people up voting me for this. I appreciate the thought but I don't feel comfortable collecting virtual points for this. Instead of an up vote please just post a reply.
This is a kernel issue, it has nothing to do with userspace tools. For example, the Linux code responsible for parsing shebangs is here:

http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stabl...
It makes the apps more approachable (“Hmm, this looks just like my real-world address book, it can’t be much harder to use”)."

That was the argument behind Microsoft's acclaimed skeuomorphic Post-PC platform, Bob:

http://www.bentuser.com/article.aspx?ID=327&page=3
http://www.bentuser.com/article.aspx?ID=327&page=4

iOS hasn't quite gone as far as introduce Clippy, but of course Siri could be taken to that direction...
I'm currently going through an algorithms textbook and find that algorithms and generics go hand in hand in writing generic, type safe reusable algorithms in your code.

Having to rewrite the same code over and over again to support one algorithm is a real pain in the butt.

...and the interface{} thing is just a workaround that defers type errors until runtime. Which in turn defeats the point of enjoying a type safe language
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Most ISPs don't like torrent-traffic (or traffic at all) because it costs them money for every single packet that gets transmitted. Torrent tends to end up sending a lot of small packets which costs the ISP more than if you would have downloaded the files from a single server.
Plus customers flooding the network with tons of packets also means slower internet for others.

That and the content provider thing are the main reasons some ISPs are already sending letters to heavy-torrenting users todays.
Tl;dr use social engineering - computers are not the weak point, people are.

True.
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Seriously? You are advocating booking a mechanic to replace a bulb?
Yes, avoiding using analogies is like ....
You are absolutely right.

I just think this was carefully scheduled and coordinated to make sure people saw it.
I understood the need for a time-series server when I was developing a real-time DAU metric server.

There's a cool hack

http://blog.getspool.com/2011/11/29/fast-easy-realtime-metri...

But not as cool as a time series db.
I based my PhD thesis on the idea of trading computational cloud (or any, really) resources. I went a little further though, and looked at how to design algorithms for the actual marketplaces, which allowed them to optimise how they competed with other marketplaces. A bit like London Stock Exchange competing with the New York Stock Exchange.

While my research was a little blue sky (what isn't) I do think that electronic trading of computation resources is the future, and I think Amazon are ahead of the game in this respect.
So, for a lot of the social professions, success is realizing that other people have minds of their own who may or may not agree with you, and that if they don't, that doesn't necessarily reflect on you or mean you're doing anything wrong. So if you blow an interview, it doesn't necessarily mean that you're stupid, it could just be that you drew a bad question or a bad interviewer or just weren't what the company was looking for.

I've been struggling with this for a while in the context of dating, which is another area where you'll face lots of rejection that usually isn't your fault. I think that's a lot healthier than to phrase it as "blame others" - you should respect others, but realize that what they want is not necessarily what you want. Heck, put that in a dating context and you can immediately see the problem: somebody who blames the girl when they're rejected is a creep, not a success.
I'm not against making money on the web, but seriously who would buy a lightbox in 2012?
A major norwegian newspaper just published a picture on their front page of someone being dragged out of there.

I am not going to link it because nobody should have to see that. Especially not anybody who knew him.

Every picture that could mean someone is identified is usually blurred out before being published, but not today apparently. Seeing the picture made me feel sick and disgusted with how the media operates.

I did not know Sean but as an former EVE player I have heard of him.

My thoughts go out to his family and loved ones, and to those of you that knew him. I am truly sorry for your loss. :(

RIP Sean
free but we will auction slivers of your soul

You must not think much of your soul if you think what they do is auctioning it off.
Simply incorrect that you can get bike like braking safely, even using the described technique.

Edit: I really want to prove this, but the only way I can think of to do it is you buy one of these for $1200, I buy a bike for $1200 and we spend $1200 in airfares to meet somewhere and try it out. Perhaps someone with physics qualifications can weigh in?
I was amazed when I showed my dad and one of his friends the kindle app on my transformer.

"Can I turn the page?"

"Sure, tap the margin"

taps the margin, and the kindle app does its slide animation to go to the next page

"That's not what I want! I want to see the page turning like on my ipad!"
Yes, the only jump-started or taken from zero to hero SIX markets in the last 10 years, with the last one 3 years ago (desktop OS, portable mp3 players, online music distribution, touch smartphones, online app distribution, tablets).

I don't mean they "invented" those (there were tablets / mp3 players / app stores, etc before). I mean they made them _matter_ (as in, going from nearly bankrupt to largest company on earth matter).

Meanwhile all of their rivals did, absolutely squat. At best, they introduced me-too products in the same space (myriads of iPod "killers", iPad like tablets, app stores, etc).

Maybe Amazon is an exception, they did introduce the Kindle, which is a category of its own, and it got its own copycats (Barnes and Noble, etc). Still, rather small compared.
The article does not only rely on rumors and leaks, but on previous iPhone versions. When you think about it, Apple has copied a lot of features (Notification Drawer, Interactive Lockscreen, Social Network integration, etc.) from Android, and it is true that the UI has not changed since 2007.

The latter point is the reason why I switched from iOS to Android a while ago, it becomes boring to use an iPhone, no novelty, no surprise. It works, is probably more reliable and stable than Android, but it is damn boring, and surprise/excitement are what matter for me.
Fancybox2 (http://fancyapps.com/fancybox/) is also responsive, though the site seems to be unresponsive (ha) at the moment.

Ironic that Fresco's actual page isn't responsive, I thought the overlay was adding huge scroll bars.

Fancybox is also free, does other media (video, etc) & can group content. It's pretty easy to theme if you are not scared of CSS.
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Reports are that was the ambassador, who is now also reported as having been killed in the attack.
Total impact is dramatically less. I mean, stealing a candy bar is wrong, and it has a real, measurable impact; stealing a car is also wrong, and has a real, measurable impact. but most people (and the law, at least in my jurisdiction) would make a distinction between the two crimes; one results in a 'slap on the wrist' while the other usually involves jail time and a felony record that makes it quite difficult for the perpetrator to get a legitimate job.

For that matter, there's another difference. In both sports and finance, most of the money is in the surrounding ecosystem, not in the traders or athletes themselves. The difference here is that if one athlete wins instead of another because of doping, this doesn't really effect the ecosystem all that much. Okay, so reebok gets the extra shoe sales rather than nike, but you are going to probably move about the same number of units at about the same price with about the same labour input. One athlete winning over another has nothing to do with the actual efficacy of the reebok or nike design or manufacturing operations. The wronged party is mostly the athlete that doesn't dope.

But the stock market is different. The stock market is how nearly all the corporations we work for and buy stuff from are owned. Stock prices directly effect things like how much labour is put towards food production vs. car production. There are real consequences to miss-allocated capital that are much larger than what brand of overpriced shoes is popular this week. Potentially, for instance, miss-pricing food commodities could cause starvation.
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Your despair and anxiety don't result from your philosophical beliefs, which should be trivially obvious since lots of people share your beliefs and do not regularly suffer from despair and anxiety.

You can feel how you please, but you aren't being faced with the binary choice of "believe X and be sad" or "disbelieve X and be happy." You also have the choice of "change whatever weird thing in your head correlates a belief in X with sadness." Feel free to just fix the unhappiness and leave your philosophy alone.
I am quite confident that mental disorders are not just more diagnosed, but also more common than they used to be. I don't know what all the causes are, but I suspect that it is somewhat akin to the "obesity epidemic" and that it has many factors of debatable relevance. There are social and environmental factors that are causing profound differences in disease rates; there's no reason to suspect that mental diseases are any different.

For my money, I would say that increase rates (real rates, not diagnosed rates) of mental disorders have gone up considerably due to, in no particular order:

* dietary changes

* environmental toxins

* less time spent outdoors (in bright sunlight)

* more sedentary lifestyles

* more low-level, long-term stress

* broader, shallower social circles (more severely exceeding Dunbar's number)

* changes in social norms (less physical contact, more space and time spent alone)

Some of the above probably have no effect, and there are probably important factors I didn't mention. But I think that as a population, we are more ill than we were generations back---not just more over-diagnosed or more often diagnosed.
These things break the web by making it impossible for me to send a link pointing at the lightboxed content to a friend.
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Ultimately nihilism is non-prescriptive as to how you should behave or feel. Under nihilism you can very easily turn "Why Bother?" into "Why Not?", or "Why do I exist?" into "Why would I not exist?" - because all are meaningless questions.

At least this is how I deal with the fatalist aspect. Live you life as you would "normally", take the actions you think are best and do what gives you emotional fulfilment. Nihilism is only a weight if you secretly want meaning (and are somehow disappointed that your actions are meaningless). Happiness isn't blocking certain truths, it is just a biological state. If you truly do not believe or wish for a meaning then Nihilism sets you free.
Actually it's greed. Religion, is a tool sometimes used as a means to an end: greed. It easy to manipulate the "true believer" or the "weak minded" or the "fearful".

And you're taking a typical American point of view on who is an evil doer (though Hitler is a universal choice).

By the way, Genghis Khan was religious. Actually he was a true master of war. He didn't need to use religion and declare a "holy war" to move his troops around Europe and Asia.
OSX used to be that too. I was amazed that 10.4(IIRC) could run on first gen imac with only a ram upgrade.
Are the rich and famous happier than the rest?

I think the average professional cyclist might be less happy then the average plumber, even without doping. Think of all the pressure, knowing that you career will have to end soon, still not being the best, dealing with the press, etc.

In my mind, Cyclist Joe might be lucky to have become Joe the Plumber instead.
Good lord, things will never change because we will never learn. It's exactly this "fight X in all its forms" that causes the problem to begin with. Help people, educate people. If they don't want your help or your education bit them adieu and walk away to help someone else.

But what ever you do, don't start a fight and certainly don't start an idiotic idealogical fight ("X in all its forms!"). That's what got them here and it's what got us here.
That quiet little phrase may be the most intriguing thing I read all year.

Looking at things like http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crime_in_the_United_States, it implies that the US murder rate would have doubled, rather than halved.

I'd suggest it is worth a separate post.
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I just checked your link... Fancybox isn't free for commercial websites.
I really thought you were more intelligent than this from some of your other posts. I'm going to give you the benefit of the doubt and assume your having a bad day.
It almost certainly does matter more. Alan Kay's admonition that perspective matters more than smarts comes to mind.
And there's no reason that this has to be the case either. The JavaScript history API could be used to push unique URLs into the address bar on each image view.
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I think they've just invented the first skateboard brake by having an electric motor on there. If you have your weight on your back foot (which is pretty natural so you don't get caught in pavement cracks etc) then it shouldn't necessarily throw the user off.
There does seem to be clues of coordination, and of Queda involvement, on 9/11.
All of my past job titles are related to Linux / UNIX and I mention EMC once so you're going to send me storage admin jobs? Stop it.

This is why I started putting zero width spaces (U+200B, press Alt+8203 to type one) in my CV in the middle of words I want people to read but not computers searching for keywords to spam me.
The thing that confuses me about this kind of article, and I've seen a good few in the months since Jobs died, is the misconception people have on the lead times of product development.

Whether the new iPhone sucks or rocks will have been mostly under Jobs leadership. He's not been dead a year yet. Lead time for product development is a tad longer than that.

We've not seen the post-Jobs Apple yet.
Linkbait. Writing an article, one year on from Jobs' death, proclaiming Apple dried up and dead, is at best ignorant, hyperbolic, impatient "journalism." He basically lauds Apple in one breath for being the slow and steady company that created the modern smartphone and tablet spheres, then hammers them for not instantly becoming a rapid-fire "see what sticks" Samsung-style company in the next! And of course, like everyone not actually in the inner sanctum at Apple, he has zero idea what Apple has planned in the long-term. Zero. But he acts like he knows everything.

This is just garbage. Some people should stop complaining so much - the same qualities they praised Apple for yesterday they slam them for the next.
Does it have to help or does it just have to be aesthetically pleasing?

Obviously most people don't think it is, but that's a personal preference rather than a statement of fact.

I think the linen backgrounds that are appearing in OS X and iOS are a case in point - they don't add anything practical (in theory I think they were meant to represent the bottom layer though that's been inconsistently used so it's questionable whether any real benefit is being gained) but broadly speaking I think people agree that the texture is nice and as a result people seem to be more positive about them.
You have a point. Me, I like things that don't get in the way of the tasks I'm trying to perform. I like it if complex things are presented on a simple and predictable way. Whenever I use my friends Android I'm always looking for how to do something. Swipe up? Down? Left or right to find some functionality. Not much consistency around the OS and Apps. I do think this will change for Android and it'll be more like Apple now that android has the new User Interface Guidelines http://developer.android.com/guide/practices/ui_guidelines/i...
Finally someone gets it.

Applications should be done natively.

HTML is for documents.
Smaller and stronger semi-conductors based on graphene substrate (video)
Well, then the upcoming self-driving vehicles will give us another bump up in the life expectancy figure.

Probably some part of the vehicle deaths will "leak" over to other categories, but there should be an overall reduction.
Kind of reminds me of this: http://www.instash.com/ring-clock
Even though it's still very much alive and kicking... I wonder what medium has taken over IRC's popularity and on what merits? At least it hasn't grown at all, despite how much general internet usage has grown during the past 10 years.
Go doesn't stop you from building datastructures, actually is really nice for building datastructures.

It simply doesn't provide a simple way to build some kinds of generic datastructures, but when the ones provided by the language are not enough it usually means your problem is specialized enough that a custom datastructure is best anyway, and Go makes that pleasant and easy.

And then there are interfaces, which are a kind of "generics" of their own.
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We (the Go users in the know) use "golang", as in: "golang map".

>"go lang map" works far better but who wants to refer to a language as "go lang"

You don't have to refer to it as "go lang", just use the term in searches.

Plus, it's not just the name. Ruby has like 20 years of history and tons of pages interlined, while Go has maybe 1/1000 of that as of now. When we get enough content, Google can deduce from context and popularity what "go maps" mean in a search.
Husband and wife are never awake at the same time. Doesn't sound like a fun marriage
Listen to what you've just asked for. Free traffic. If anyone knows how to get that it's either going to unethical/illegal or something they'd never share with you.

Even free, as in cost (marketing on Twitter, blogging etc.) is not free, as in time.
> About one in four adults suffer from a diagnosable mental disorder in a given year. That means if you think about your 10 favorite people in the whole world two of them could be at risk of suicide.

No, that means on average, an arbitrary set of eight adults contains two with a mental disorder. (Presumably this refers to adults in the U.S.)
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“Our program necessarily includes the propaganda of atheism.” -- V.I. Lenin
Too bad it does not work in Android Froyo's browser.
Sure, but the answer is you just make an arbitrary decision that feels right. Same thing with name ordering and the other issues you mention. There isn't much benefit to coming up with some elaborate system of rules for these things -- after all, the goal is to create a categorization that is easy for you to find things with, not to generate the timeless perfect metadata which all humans agree is correct.
Prototype can be as small as Wireframes, Product Specs, HTML mockups. You dont need to change/leave your job to do that.

If you have been living with the idea for few weeks/months are also very passionate about it. Three four nights or weekends are sufficient to start with the sketches and wireframes.

Once you have it ready, show it to few friends, industry experts you know and iterate until you will confident to take the next plunge. Because after that there is no going back.
I believe the system is fundamentally unfair, but also think that you are the one that's bought into their propaganda to the point that you're not thinking straight.

Particularly as you naively think that an expired patent is enough to protect you from the system.
> "This is what happens when a company is too cheap to invest in research and development. Did you know that Apple spends far less on R&D than any of its rivals - a paltry 2% of revenues, versus 14% for Google and Microsoft?"

Funny he should mention that. Little known fact: at microsoft R&D expenditures are really technical evangelism expenditures. Whenever you legitimately complain online that vista sucks / metro sucks and someone else calls you an idiot, that's microsoft's "R&D" money hard at work.
I miss Fake Steve Jobs
Thanks, but it is full of typos as did it from my mobile. Anyways best of luck with your venture.
Ask PG: What Is The Most Frighteningly Ambitious Idea You Have Been Pitched On?
I would say "Maybe".

Maybe they have better lives, or maybe they are (or will be) depressed like you were.

The point is, you don't know, so enjoy you live, I think you deserve it.
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Instead of "fight[ing]," which seems to perpetuate the us-vs-them problem, why not focus on using enlightenment itself to preserve these enlightenment values? Instead of attacking magical thinking, promote rationality. Instead of attacking extremist religious belief, promote its antidote, a thirst for knowledge.

What would be really cool is if someone can figure out a way to trick the part of our brains that craves a Disney-style magical reality into contributing to its own demise. In other words, say to people, "Want a magical world? Join us in the use of science and technology to build it for ourselves."
What, exactly, is boring about it? I actually think it is, so not asking to prove a point. More - what is it about Metro that causes it to dull so quickly?

P.S. Fluoro pink on a black background with flashes of white will date faster than strawberries in the sun.
NASA's gallery is awesome.