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Tempting. But judging from their FAQ, it seem it's running a simulation, not running on the actual browser versions, so some differences should be expected:

"To use all Internet Explorer versions, you need to install Internet Explorer 9 on your machine. You don`t need to install older Internet Explorer versions."

http://www.browseemall.com/Support/FAQ#technical-2

http://www.browseemall.com/Blog/post/2012/07/26/How-good-are...
I'm not sure what your point is. Are you agreeing that the "American Dream" is now (to some extent, which may have been different in the past) part of the effort of convincing people that the game isn't rigged against them, or are you disagreeing with that?
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As someone who's been an F1 fan for a while (although less so at the moment, but I digress), I've always found it curious that it's never really taken off in America like it could have. Americans love cars, and love racing, it's easy to mock the love of the oval and NASCAR but American teams show up in Le Mans quite a lot, and have a long history of racing on the long, winding and, well, non-American tracks.

Maybe it's just a quirk of culture, something that slipped under the radar and never made it back into vogue. No American drivers, previously no American tracks, no American teams, there's little to get a fan hooked in. F1 suddenly got a lot more coverage in the UK when we had a couple of drivers, and oddly more coverage still when we had drivers doing well, maybe having one really good American driver would change it.
totally offtopic, but...: how/where can you get your picture traced in a guilloche pattern like that (other than paying an artist to hand draw it)?
Things changed dramatically after Tim Schaefer managed to raise 3 Mil $ for double fine adventure in Feb 2012. Since then, many games managed to raise above 1 Mil $, 9 actually per Kickstarter stats. Star Citizen, a flight sim, raised the most , 6 Mil $ just as of two weeks ago. Before that Project eternity was the record holder with 4.2 Mil $. Yeah, it's definitely a 2012 thing & if anything, it's acelerating.
It's football, not soccer.
Utter BS. "... We realize that Objective C is a verbose language and in some cases it may be more readable to extend slightly beyond 80 columns, but this should definitely be the exception and not commonplace"

Edit: One single attribution that crosses the 80 columns rule (4 levels of indentation - 4 spaces each)

placeHolderLabel.lineBreakMode = UILineBreakModeWordWrap;

The person who wrote that is obviously not fluent in Obj-C and even says the rule is 'controversial'.
Thing is, one could say that "be aware that the game is rigged, try to understand it, play by your own rules, and adapt to the rigged game in order to survive". Thing is, that relies on so many factors that simply aren't the case for people - intelligence, upbringing, world-experience, contacts, race, gender, education. Basically, there's always a chance you can make it no matter how fucked you are, but that percentage is so low you may as well say fuck it and start selling drugs, because the chance of you making it legitimately is orders of magnitude lower than the chance you'll get caught "making it" illegally.
Setting up GPG with a webmail, lets say Hushmail, completely d have been in the scope of that tutorial ... Description of "how install Tor Bundle" and blah blah blah are way too long, for such an incomplete result, man.
Oh hey, they mention the one game I backed and have beta access to: Word Realms. (By the Kingdom of Loathing guys.)

It's basically a complete game at this point, just polishing and minor bug fixing left. (Well, maybe the devs secretly plan to add additional features, but certainly nothing feels missing.)
There have been 366 murders so far this year in New York City, compared with 472 at this time last year.

As an ex-resident of NYC, while I applaud the fact that violent crime is at its lowest point in 50 years, I still think 366 murders per year (with a month to go) is appalling, big city or not. I'm not sure if murders are equally distributed across boroughs, but assuming they are, 366/5 = ~73 murders per year per borough, or a murder per borough every five days.

The goal should be zero, and we shouldn't rest until it's the norm. An improvement in statistics is great, but I don't exactly see it as a cause for celebration.
Final fantasy, chrono trigger... any rpg basicly. Fallout 3 was a very bad game and was really dumbed down - New Vegas was way better.

Hell... Another World (one of better games of all-time) was on SNES - and it cost the fraction of what Wasteland raised.

Fallout 3 is just a shadow of the glory of previous games.
One good example of an RPG made with a "modern engine" that would give a lot of freedom to the player would be Vampire:Bloodlines - although it had a fair share of bugs - it's one of best examples on how a great gameplay and story can be.
For anybody that's been paying attention in the last 20 years, the collegiate funnel to success is broken in the technology/startup sector.

I'm not dismissing the role of education, however. Education is vastly important. A formal education with an expensive stamp on it? Not so much.

Continuing my discussion of the startup/technology sector, there was a time when a great degree would get you into places where you worked with awesome folks doing hugely important jobs. Over time, more awesome folks and hugely important jobs existed separate from that great degree. We've now reached a point where having that great degree many times is counter-indicative of performance ability, so it becomes kind of a social club.

I hate to say it, but for run-of-the-mill high technology jobs where you interact heavily with a business customer and make some magic happen? I view deep dives in college as a warning sign that you might be validating yourself against a model that has little practical impact in the larger world.

I really hated to admit that, because I deeply love education. But dang it, I believe the tables are flipped. You are more likely to get great help in the startup/technology sector from some 20-year-old who knows everything about technology from his personal passions than you are from a 25-year-old with a Master's degree from an Ivy League institution. And in terms of organizations, it's a big red flag as far as productivity goes for those places with tight controls over collegiate applicant. Unless you're building the next LHC. Whenever I see some job that's a straight technology job that has "and a masters degree in CS" without the following "or equivalent experience"? I'm thinking this isn't a place I want to be associated with. They have no idea what they are doing.
Dutch is much closer to German to us (Danes) than Danish.
One thing he mentions in passing is that the Ivy League process is built on looking for "future leaders".

There's not really a test for such qualities. I mean, you can try, but it's very difficult to see how someone performs in trying circumstances until you put them there.

In Thinking, Fast and Slow (which I'm sure many of HNers have read), Kahneman gives an anecdote about his time working for the Israeli Defence Force. The IDF wanted a way to identify who should be put through officer training, and they turned to a team of psychologists to develop a testing program.

Kahneman and his colleagues came up with a series of scenario-based tests. Some problem would be posed to a group of soldiers ("move this log over the top of this wall"). The group would be observed and notes taken.

One thing that the psychologists watched for was spontaneous leadership. Who in the group took charge? Surely such a soldier was bound to command!

The problem is that, upon reviewing the performance of their selections, Kahneman and his colleagues found that their candidates did no better -- either in training or in the field -- than candidates chosen by other means. Simply seeing the "obvious" leadership qualities of a particular individual in a highly artificial situation is a basically useless predictor of actual outcomes.

It's satisfying noise.
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It's called the "American Dream" because you have to be asleep to believe it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=acLW1vFO-2Q
* Inlines for stacked inlines in the admin.
* Better defined production/deployment practises (A set of Fabric scripts, for instance?)
Bad example then. But the suffixes are related?
I'm not strict about column widths. If it starts to look too long (100+?), I check the column position and see if I shouldn't hard wrap it. Most of what I write isn't super long or super complex one-liners.

If I were working on a team based project, then I would absolutely adhere to a basic style guide regarding whitespace, line widths, etc.
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It's interesting that this is I think the 3rd article on tiny housing that has bubbled up on HN recently. At the moment in the UK the government wants people to buy houses, get on the market and so on, but in an area like London where housing is pricey and space is at a premium people are going to start needing to think up clever ways to use it at ground level, rather than building up and up.

Of course, they're nigh on useless for family units, but as a first time buyer property they'd probably be quite useful in terms of pricing (as long as they don't get sold as 'designer apartment spaces') and in sensible land usage.
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About bitcoin: It depends.

Yes, it is not fully anonymous, but you can make it reasonably anonymous quite easily (infinitely more than any credit card). Just trade it for cash with someone you know in the first place, then send it to MtGox and back, then send it to something similar with online wallet and back, and the result is reasonably anonymous.

Also the default client does what it can to obfuscate all the transactions - with every outgoing transaction, the "change" goes back to you, but at completely different address. This causes that after a few transactions, it's basically untrackable.
I taught myself on a life size printed version of the Sinclair Spectrum that was part of the promotional materials, I was gutted when I found out that coding on the real thing required a bizarre set of keyboard combinations unrelated to QWERTY... the skills have come in handy in the following decades though ;)
I like the font!
> connected to the Internet via a subscription in my own name

I thought the article was about anonymous e-mail. Anonymous as in, nobody can tell who you are, not even the Feds. Anything you paid for with your credit card is probably not going to meet that criterion.
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Get the Wall Street Journal to do an article about you, which is how I assume Kent did it.
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I'm American, like F1 and NASCAR but rarely spend time watching either (or any other television). I also prefer to drive on a winding country road in a European touring sedan versus more boring routes.

I played soccer (shouldn't he have said football?) when I was younger and I'm fine with the metric system (the real question is why they taught it in elementary schools starting in the '70s, but didn't bother switching).

I think there are a lot of people in the US like me, but we don't spend enough money to get sponsor/advertiser attention. When was the last time you saw F1 tee-shirts, or F1 drivers on beer cans? Which events are offered is all about the almighty dollar.
It's the same with Cricket and Rugby.

By some quirk of history, Americans got into Baseball and Gridiron instead.

They're both fine sports so it's all good; but we all have a chuckle when you have a 'world series'.
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That's a mighty accurate username.
Why use email? I know some drug dealers who are pretty IT savvy and they simply setup Pidgin with OTR on their computers. Some had Macs with Adium.

Then they would message each other to go on OTR.

That's all you should send in an e-mail or text message, "go on OTR".
Disclaimer: I earned my BCompSci with 1st Class Honours -- ie, a miniature research degree -- last year and I am damn proud of the work I did to get it.

> You are more likely to get great help in the startup/technology sector from some 20-year-old who knows everything about technology from his personal passions than you are from a 25-year-old with a Master's degree from an Ivy League institution.

This is a false dichotomy with a side order of strawman.

Here, let me play:

"You are more likely to get great help in the startup/technology sector from some 25-year-old who pursued their passion for websites and earned a Masters from a dissertation on HTTP than you are from a 20-year-old with a who reads two dozen blogs and keeps up with the tweets".

See how that works?

Whether a person has a degree or not is orthogonal to their passion for a subject. But it so happens that you don't get a top score in a research degree by just ticking the boxes or colouring between the lines. You need to be passionate about the topic.

And it so happens that this is true of mastery of any subject. Those who are passionate about a subject will obsessively read about it, study it, tinker with it and spend the time to deeply grok a topic because that's what they love doing.

Sometimes this happens in academia. Sometimes in industry.
Man, this website has the worst navigational experience ever. I accidentally flicked my magic mouse upwards and I was on another article, I tried to correct it by scrolling to the bottom but I ended up at yet another article instead of the original one.

Before I knew it, I was just lost.
> it's easy to mock the love of the oval and NASCAR

Check out Top Gear s18e02 (edit: now I see you're British, so you probably have watched it). Not that I'm convinced or will watch Nascar, but how they pictured it in the show was hell damn exciting.

> F1 suddenly got a lot more coverage in the UK when we had a couple of drivers

Imagine what was going on here when Kubica appeared.
For me, who has a son that has Asperger's Syndrome, this story hits home. Although my son is only 7yrs old, I can see that he can potentially be part of mainstream society if Thorkil Sonne and his friends are making good progress. It gives me hope for kids like my son.
"You don't have Javascript enabled" so let's show you just how badly we can make rendered HTML look. Great work there Quartz!

As for the article, it's an article about racing, not sure why they mentioned football or the metric system at all, but to mention it in the context they have, they should've called it by it's proper name "Football" and then perhaps added "Soccer" in brackets.
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No real meat to this article. Americans don't love F1 because the track isn't oval? Really? And the shot about how poor F1 drivers do well in NASCAR ruins the credibility of the argument even more.
If you don't have Javascript enabled that's a conscious decision you've made, fully aware of what the tradeoff is.

Either turn it on for websites you want to read properly, or just accept the fact that it's 2013 and the vast majority of websites use it.
> No American drivers, no American tracks, no American teams[...]

F1 was run at the Circuit of the Americas two weeks ago, in Austin. I think F1 is to the USA as NFL is to the UK: there's a dedicated, small audience in both (judging from my Twitter feed), and they're both trying to extend their reach - F1 with more races in the US, and NFL with more games in Wembley. I think F1 is planning a New Jersey street race in 2014 as well.
One of the things Google Translator is horrible about is translating stuff like kroner into dollars, SEK into USD, etc. Granted, there are cases where translating kroner into dollars is ok, but I'm guessing this is the wrong translation most of the time.
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Believe me, their "badly-rendered HTML" is sooooo much better than the stupid, stupid "thing" they show you when JS is enabled...
"Sweden's gross domestic product, by comparison, amounted in 2011 to more than 3500 billion."

The irony.

Looks like a typo, it should be around 500bn$. 3500 would be Germany.
Proof that "fat finger" human mistakes can do as much damage as algos gone wild.
It's 'football' in the UK, but in most of the rest of the Anglophone world, it's 'soccer'. Australia has its own 'football', as does Ireland.
Good point. I was more wondering about this as an alternative to purely anonymous e-mail in light of one of the reasons why people try to avoid having e-mail tied to them (government having a peek).
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I think that this almost indestructible believe that anything is possible is a central part of the US existence. Back then, when somebody wrote “all men are created equal”, this statement could be already seen as an insult to large parts of society. The reality is, if people have high hopes and dreams, they are most likely not going to achieve them.

But I am absolutely certain that these give them a purpose to try harder and become better in whatever they do. Even so it is largely an illusion, it benefits society overall as it motivates people to live up to their best possible capabilities.

But I don't believe that there is anything such as a fair game and that those not benefiting from the current rules of the game will always call it unfair. This is similar to the discussion in the article of the Ivy Schools. Is what they do fair? Absolutely not! Does it serve its purpose of positioning the schools as institutions that bring together the intellectual and societal elites? Yes it does.
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wow, they are worst 'js for reading text' offenders than blogspot.
That was a cheap shot.

There is an intellectual foundation for many parts of conservatism; see Michael Oakeshott in particular as the leading 20th century philosopher of conservatism as a serious intellectual movement.

For the pro-market counter-case, see FA Hayek's Why I Am Not A Conservative; though I think Hayek later contradicted himself in The Origins and Effects of Our Morals.
Sorry I should have said 'previously no American tracks', was typing a bit too fast and I'll fix it.
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Chrome F12... then delete the overlay and enjoy the article.
Ask HN: inspirational maths posters for kindergarden?
Our kindergarden will undergo certification, and there are a number of aspects that will be evaluated. Since apparently it is desirable to confront the kids with art and architecture, I wonder what to do about maths. Obviously a lot of kindergarden maths is very basic (basic geooetric shapes, counting, measuring), but if art is OK, I thought why not show them fractals or cellular automatons?

It would be great to have a nice picture book for kindergarden, for example? So far I could only find "The beauty of fractals", which inspired me as a teenager (more than 20 years ago). I couldn't find a lot of good posters yet, either. Wasn't sure where to look, though - checked Wolfram Merchandise and did a Google search...

Thoughts?
A filter doesn't need to be perfect to be worthwhile - just to pull some made-up numbers out of nowhere, if 1/100 options are worth investigating, and your filter gives you true positives 70% of the time and false positives 30% of the time, using that filter gives you about twice as much of a return on your investment as skipping the filter and investigating everything.
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Unfortunately a gyro and accelerometer would only be able to provide the orientation of the device, not its location relative to the phone.
The goal should be zero, and we shouldn't rest until it's the norm.

Wouldn't that lead to a War on Drugs style situation? You'll basically end up throwing more and more resources and taking away more and more freedoms chasing smaller and smaller marginal returns.

Instead pick a realistic target that will make you look good compared to other cities in the world, say 2 pr. 100000 population or about 160 murders, and work towards that.
If you are talking about 9/11, casualties of war & terrorism are not counted for violent crime stats.
Your comment is why this video is so uplifting for me (and millions of other people apparently). Instead of responding with bile and negativity, this girl Jackie responded in kindness and created an epic moment.

Those who look for fault and blame will always find it. Those who look for the goodness in people will find that too. She is more of a Zen Master than anyone I've ever seen.

EDIT: I thought Jia's request was fun. He just wanted a rejection but instead gave Jackie the opportunity to shine.
An article like this on the homepage is probably the result of someone gaming the system. This is when a down voting arrow would come in handy.
"tl;dr If you can't make it better, make it worse."
The HUGE screenshot in the page, front and center, pretty clearly shows a Windows OS user interface. But I do agree, he should be really explicit and mention supported OS's.
Agreed. Can't use my android phone to nav around. It just flips articles.
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Translation: "There was no statistically significant increase in cancer detected." However, that's less meaningful than you might think as detecting even a 2x increase in cancer among mice is a lot harder than say showing in increased population lifespan.

http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/emmm.201200245/fu...
If you've never watched NASCAR, you should definitely do it. I've not watched a race in years, but it used to be shown on Channel 5 around 10/11pm, it's perfect 'crack a beer' TV. Very fast, very aggressive, very loud, very full of crashes. The street brawl to F1's refined Queensbury Rules.

However, it is frankly ridiculous in many ways and it's very easy to pick on the fact it's beloved by red necks and so on.
Actually, the implicit assumption is that "only DV lottery brings in low skill labor", not that "DV lottery only brings in low skill labor".
There's a theory (according to the relevant Wikipedia entry it's a controversial theory) that the World Series is named for the newspaper which sponsored early contests.
As long as you don't get Alzheimer's or some other brain-specific disease, I would think anti-aging would keep your brain as spry as the rest of your body.
This sounds like a dream world to me because we rack up that many murders in a week in South Africa.

So whilst it might no be impressive from your perspective I think it's amazing.
I think flexbox is bigger than any of those. The new spec is already in WebKit and the Firefox nightlys as well as Opera.

Advanced CSS layout is vitally important for creating web apps with the nice benefit of eliminating almost all extra markup that was used for layout.
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Thanks to the sheer weight of numbers of people in the Indian subcontinent, I'd say cricket is second only to soccer in global popularity.
You could prototype a variety of product ideas and let the customers guide you on what to work on, instead of committing to an idea right away that might not get any traction once it is released.
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A tech* question:

How did you implement the fail-over to a different amazon region when one fails? I'm interested in common approaches to this SPOF and what have been done in this case.

*seeing the discussion that is going on around this post, it almost feels off-topic to post a technical question :)
No. Either the value started as a signed value, and then was converted to an unsigned ( something well warned about by observing compile warnings or Lint ), or it was unsigned all along. Either way the same result would have occurred.

Slightly better is 64bit signed. There can always be overflow though. The reason these values are POD's is because tickers move around at a very high speed.
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