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Yes, exactly. I don't understand the purpose of this. 4chan is trolling nobody. The person of the year award is not meant to mean the most likeable or best person. That's why Hitler, Stalin (twice), Khomeini had the title in the past.

Of course one can question whether Kim Jong Un had really such a huge impact on events.
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Alcoholics Anonymous famously has "turning your life over to a higher power" as one of their 12 steps. They also provide a very open community. They seem to have some success.
That may have worked well there, but this stunt is well-targeted to the culture at UChicago. We love this kind of quirky stuff.
Looks like the back button is broken on the Android app. I can't hit the back button and leave the app from the registration Activity.
Ah! I did not know that. Thanks for informing me, I'm happy I got the chance to learn something new today. :)
The pictures remind me of the Area 51 levels of Tombraider III.
Exactly this. I started with a Lamy Al-Star and it's a nice, robust little pen for pretty cheap. Aluminum, so it can take being thrown around. My girlfriend recently started using the Safari and it's a good pen too.

My main "workhorse" pen is the Lamy Studio. Heavier than the Al-Star, a slightly grippy coating, better balance when "posted" (putting the cap on the end of the pen while writing). Also a bit thicker, which suits my personal preference.

This thread at SA is a pretty good primer for fountain pens and ink: http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=324...

I have a few other cheap chinese fountain pens that I mess around with, but mostly stick to my Studio.

Edit: Bonus points to owning a semi-nice fountain pen: you'll never lose a pen again. I religiously keep mine in my pocket because, damnit, I spent a lot of money on this pen! No more losing your 20 cent Bics and frantically trying to find a new writing implement.

Plus inks are fun to buy and experiment with :3
> very useful nasty parts: on-stack replacement (OSR)
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> Generally, this doesn't matter much, but there are some cases where it's really inconvenient.

If you have a real world application [not a microbenchmark] that suffers from the fact that Dart VM does not implement OSR please add it to https://code.google.com/p/dart/issues/detail?id=6787
You know what, if EU can get Nobel, why can't this guy be selected for person of the year, just look at that lovely round face :)
Also thanks to fracking, U.S. groundwater contamination is at an all-time high! Go us!
You've gotta try this! It's cute, quaint and it's got oogle high speed internet...for free! WOW.
Why RequireJS, not OneJS?
I'm more interested in the stats/scrobble part than the radio but it's too bad they are not adding new features (More stats/graphs/...). It kind of feels like a dead project.

If there would be a site tracking your listening stats and giving decent recommendations based on your previous listening habits (Maybe even add last.fm import) i'd consider paying for it. This could work like trakt.tv where everyone is able to use the site but there are still some bonus features for paying members.
People with depression and substance abuse issues don't think the way non abusers do. They know what they're doing is wrong and that it could lead to death or going further down the spiral, but their ability to rationalize their behavior is all powerful. It has nothing to do with will power or motivation. There's something wired differently in the brain.

This. What helped me is to see the good person behind the illness and separate that him or her from the illness. During bad moment, it will affect you less (it's the illness, not that soul that is affected by it), during good moments it is easier to connect to that person.

Also, if someone has a severe mental illness that cannot be cured or properly medicated, and has young children, protect them if it is within your power. Every child has the right (and need) to grow up in a safe environment.
I wish I had a reason to use Meteor because it looks like a lot of fun!
I'm sorry for the misunderstanding, but I'm as strong as a non-believer in the supernatural/religious you can possibly be. I'm certainly not arguing that a supernatual force is determining what is good or bad, I'm arguing for the exact opposite - that there is no such predetermined thing in nature and that it is a purely human construct/idea.

What I'm saying is simply that nothing is inherently good or bad, it's humans who assign the purely human concepts of fairness/justice/goodness/badness to things/actions/events.
Impact Engine Proves “Social Enterprise” Is No Oxymoron
While I can't disagree with the numbers, these were acquired at what could be considered the peak of a bubble, thus possibly way over-priced. Although, to say that he didn't create something awesome (both Opsware and Netscape) would be trivializing what he has done, and it isn't fair to him either. I think it would be fair to say he knows far more about business/what it takes to make a start-up than 99% of the world.
I like it! The "see a sample" modal looks really cluttered, though.
I didn't really think about it until you mentioned it, but the design does feel somewhat dated.
The individual characters repeated through the letter look exactly the same as each other. It appears computer generated to me.
Indeed ... and it is also open source and works on Mono, should you choose to host it on linux/apache - http://aspnetwebstack.codeplex.com/
Awesome, thanks. Got your email, will be in touch shortly!
"Cops use Taser on (+Unarmed) Uncooperative Woman (+Holding a Video Camera)"

- Fixed that for you.

Now:

Why a taser?

Couldn't they just slap her in handcuffs and escort her out of the store?

Tasers are supposed to be substituted for lethal force when no other options exist. If they had no tasers, would they have shot her instead?

Bad form for the taser alone. But, shear stupidity to use it when being recorded on video, unless absolutely necessary.
Yup! We use Proxima-Nova. It's probably the next Helvetica Neue (i.e. hipster designers will be rolling their eyes at you soon).

One of the things that's great about it is there are so many variations: Regular, Light, Regular Italic, Light Italic, Semibold, Bold, Extrabold, Black, Semibold Italic, Bold Italic.

Most other sans-serif typefaces we evaluated didn't have enough variation that it could reliably service any use-case.

We use proxima-nova on http://customer.io as well as in all our presentations (e.g. https://speakerdeck.com/sudonim/write-emails-people-will-rea... ) . Love that typeface.
I can't find a mirror of Mark Pilgrim's blog post from 2010 on losing a friend of 25 years. That haunted me.

EDIT: Here it is: http://web.archive.org/web/20101214221345/http://diveintomar...
Which country did you try it in, Japan or China? I'm curious to hear how a use of this actually turned out.
Enterprise runs on WP.com infrastructure (multi-datacenter, tens of thousands of CPU cores, terabytes of memory) so it's able to absorb traffic levels above what most cloud hosts can. The trade-off is you have less flexibility to modify stack than you would with a VPS or cloud hosting account.
Ask HN: Should I offer an OSS version?
I sell a WordPress template online that does quite well. The problem is that someone released an older version into the wild and now it's available for free.

I've often thought about releasing a free version in the repo with no customization ability but I'd hate for my sales to suffer.

Has anyone out there decided one way then switched to the other and regretted it? Or switched and had a great experience?
I had never heard of onejs. I'll look into it now and if it looks promising definitely include it!
still does. Try searching for something relevant, see where an app with that exact name is placed.

Example: https://play.google.com/store/search?q=child+books&c=apps

The app named "Child Books" comes after coloring book, Nook, WebMD and many others. It's just that popularity matters MUCH much more than what you actually search for, and it takes days from the moment of getting popular (Google Maps style) to the moment when the algorithms start noticing.
Attorney General Secretly Granted Gov. Develop Dossiers on Innocent Americans
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Those are different doors.

Thus, one one door the emergency egress is "open this door and keep going" and on the other is "go left, through this door which is already open".

As for the door locking or opening by spinning the wheel in different directions - one is inside the room looking out, and the other is outside the room looking in.
The ideology of the wannabe ruling class in all its terrifying glory.
Ha, I was just thinking this the other week and now seeing it on Github makes me want to find another font to use everywhere. Probably won't happen.
Thank you kind sir :) I've got another couple of start-up focused tracks like this which I'll be publishing soon.
Apple awards Paper, Action Movie FX best iOS apps of the year
This hit pretty close to home. My father just moved in with me after calling me last week and telling me he was going to kill himself. I managed to calm him down and convince him to move in with me for a while, so hopefully this is the beginning of the road to recovery.

Reading the comments helps to know there are others helping to carry the burdens of their own families. Thanks to everyone for sharing your stories.
Oh, of course. Far too many people don't realize that religion (in general, and in the "Bible belt" case, Christianity in particular) should be completely orthogonal to such concerns as science and education, and truths revealed therein. There's no inherent conflict, of course; but people from both sides are guilty of acting as if there's conflict. Unfortunately for religious people, they have started it first in ages past, when religion was a standard, and so now they tend to have harder time learning the error of their ways.
But then users would be constantly selecting "most turns" routes.
Can you submit a pull request?
New Facebook Android App - reviews scare me
Airbnb goes social and local with acquisition of Localmind
Checkout http://www.taskarmy.com/, I believe its created by a freelancer keeping freelancer in mind.
I think Keen would link himself to Keynes (the person and what he actually wrote) but disassociate himself from Keynesianism (the twisted version that is commonly discussed). He is a greater follower of Minsky though and trying to put a mathematical basis under his theories.

I don't recognise items (1), (2) or (3) or even (4) as such in his writing although I'm not sure they contradict it. (5) is very important and I think that he might say that (6) is the wrong way round and that the government is the agent of the banks at the moment!

His key issue is that debt (public and private) matters and that the rate of change in total debt is the main source of the booms and busts that we see.

His prescription for the current crisis is printing money but then to give it to the people not the banks or government (both of which we are doing now). People with debts would then be required to pay down the debts with the printed money and people without debts could keep and spend the printed money.

He also has some proposals for limitations on limitations on borrowing for property purchases (PILL) and one intended in preventing share speculation getting out of control too although I have my doubts about that one really as it seems impractical, abusable and has some potential negative effects too (Jubilee Shares).
http://www.debtdeflation.com/blogs/manifesto/
There's no shame in crying and it is great therapy. When losing somebody close, do cry until your tears run out.
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Well, most people don't know/realize all this stuff. Even a lot of the people on HN don't realize that you can get almost all of Amazon apps on non-Amazon tablets until you explicitly point it out to them.

Like I said before, the Kindle Fire gets a lot of exposure due to its prominent position on Amazon's home page. This makes it much more likely that they'll get a lot of sales from consumers who don't really do much research. This is especially true during the holiday season - you don't do nearly as much research when buying something for somebody else as you do when buying something for yourself.

Even then, like you said, there's a certain lack of logicality in Amazon's decisions. Then again, they haven't been in the mobile device market (as an OEM) for too long, so it's not entirely impossible that some MBA came up with this harebrained scheme for driving sales of content from Amazon's digital stores and got it past Bezos.
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Yeah, I'm afraid you may be right. Looking closer at it a second time, certain character are clearly identical. The lower-case "t" for example.

=(
This looks like it will definitely come in handy for prototypes, great job.

P.S. It seems the link to the SASS plugin on your site is broken.
Is that leaf icon on the sign up button some sort of standard icon now for sign ups? I'm not sure I understand it.
I didn't claim that others' products were perfect. That would be strange. My point was that Apple enjoys an undeserved reputation for quality.

"Apple has been consistently better than bad"

I think my links show that this is just not true, but that might depend on what you mean by "consistently".

Their track record shows a cynical, almost sinister pattern of choices on their part: hoard $120 billion in cash while shipping software with a beautiful visual design that, under the glossy surface, is unreliable, inadequately tested, and, in some cases, demonstrably hobbled together by inexperienced or incompetent engineers: shiny stuff that doesn't work.

This is a deliberate choice, since with all that cash they could hire the best talent and make it policy to ensure that nothing gets out the door that would earn a CS undergraduate a failing grade. Instead, they've chosen to invest in maintaining the illusion that their software "just works" and is empowering, while harboring an increasingly obvious contempt for their customers.
>Do you really believe that the "echo chamber" happens because people lie about their beliefs to fit in?

I don't believe most people actively lie about their opinions, though I'm sure it happens and probably more often than one would want to admit. I think it's more just a classic case of groupthink; people just adopt the opinion of the group for the social benefit, more or less subconsciously.

More important than simply having an unpopular opinion is the willingness to express it when asked, even if it's not going to result in praise or accolades from the group's (explicitly or implicity) chosen "thought leaders". Such a thing encourages independent analysis and challenges the authority of said "thought leaders", which is healthy in most contexts.

It's especially important to do this in tech; since many of us seem to lack basic social skills, the cost of expressing a thing at odds with the group's position are disproportionately severe, and combined with the technical perspective of most in the field, groupthink pervades our sector particularly deeply, and the consequences of opposing one's technical religious positions are particularly harsh.

While it's pretty obvious that Andreesen's opinions are informed by his personal perspective as a wealthy dude, I don't think we should allow that to unfairly bias our reception. We're obviously not going to volunteer to have the phone company charge us $500/mo, but it doesn't mean that he's wrong about the basic principle of metered data or the availability of supply.

While you see an "artificially restricted supply", Andreesen sees "artificially curtailed demand" (as far as supply<->demand applies to pricing) by heavy dependence on cheap offshored labor and the political impossibility of bringing that labor front and center (i.e., on-shoring it). I think this is a viewpoint worthy of consideration even if we don't like its implications, which are basically that things should cost much more than they do now.
If only I had the time.
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The hash issues aren't just causing a slight slowdown, they seem to be bringing the fs to a complete halt. Also, changing hash, unless done with care, will cause compatibility issues.
PARTTIME / REMOTE - Massachusetts or Northeastern USA.

Small distributed team at a bootstrapped and profitable healthcare software company (8 people). We make tools that help people diagnosed with mental illness get their lives back, very fulfilling work. Looking for a part time finance director as we grow from 1M to 10M in revenue. Remote OK, troublemakers OK. I've worked remotely for 10 years at a variety of companies, and this crew is great, a very pleasant team to work with. We have one SaaS product written in Rails and are launching a second. https://www.patdeegan.com/blog/posts/finance-director-job-op...
Attorney General Grants Gov. Ability to Develop Dossiers on Citizens
Automattic Launches WordPress.com Enterprise
I dig it. Looks nice and makes me want to use the service, but I can't get past the cost of the private repos. The unlimited, free, private repos are what keep me at BitBucket.
As a developer, I don't quite get who this is for. I know these technologies and how to use them and install them. Installing node.js and stuff is also pretty much a couple of one liners.

I guess I don't see why others find much pain in installing node or rails... I already have Ruby/Node and other stuff installed and each new project I create differs in file structures and stuff like that based on the needs of the project. Different projects require different stacks.
I'm absolutely certain it will be pretty nifty. However, once i have willingly decided not to do a login ( i don't use gmail or Chrome ) it should just not feel the need to shove that to my face everytime. A first time setup prompt is all that is needed and once you say no it should tell you " ok, you're missing out but in case you do feel like trying it out - it's in settings->log into account".

Since Apple Maps works perfectly fine for my area ( yes, i'm aware there's a world outside the Bay Area where Apple Maps is horrible), the constant nag for a login is enough to for me to stop using it. It is an awesome app though.
Congrats on launching and shipping! Just a note: your landing page is still a little confusing as far as what File Mess can do.

Are you using Context.IO[0]? I just (re-)discovered their platform earlier this week and definitely makes it easy to get started if you're hacking an email processing/automation system (which can be significantly profitable in the B2B space).

Mailgun is another great email API platform. I built and launched imgpage[1] just a few days ago and couldn't have done it without them. Had a few questions, Mailgun support was fantastic.

[0] http://context.io

[1] http://www.imgpage.com
Speaking of tourist disasters in SF; when I was there back in May, there were a few blocks somewhere around (IIRC) Post/Van Ness where the GPS in my Galaxy Nexus would actually pick up a mile or so off from where I actually was. Realized what was happening right away and still know how to read maps[0]; but could easily be a problem for anyone who isn't paying attention to everything.

[0] Semi-related: whoever decided to stamp street names into SF sidewalks: thank you.
I find the lack of octocat disturbing.
I think he's correct. Being pregnant and giving birth is tremendously challenging (and rewarding, to many), but is a drop in the bucket compared to the entire rest of your life being about Not You. Not only do you face the constant lack of sleep, but you now have to worry about financial planning, raising the kid to be a good human, etc.

Having a kid is easy. Raising a kid (well) is hard.
so all you are saying is that some people pay for (N gigabytes per month) and actually use N, while others pay for the same plan but only use a fraction of N?
It's possible that these reviews are for the update that was pushed out on 12/6, and not the native app that is supposed to be released today.
It's a win for Google. Google was asking for a Google Maps branding in return for turn directions on the official Maps app but was refused. Now that Google Maps exists everyone can clearly see that Google Maps is the better one.
Isn't it extraordinary that you're carrying a device powerful enough to make your suggestion plausible?
PBKDF2 is a key strengthening algorithm, used to generate a key from a shared secret. AES is a block cipher. I'm not a security expert, but simply padding out the password to the right number of bits seems like a huge no-no. Instead, you should be generating a key of the correct length using something like PBKDF2.

Everything I've learned about encryption, I've learned from cperciva. This presentation in particular might be worth your time: http://www.bsdcan.org/2010/schedule/attachments/135_crypto1h...

Recording: http://blip.tv/fosslc/everything-you-need-to-know-about-cryp...

This in particular: "DO: Avoid using passwords whenever possible.
DO: Use a key derivation function to convert passwords into
keys as soon as possible.
DO: Use PBKDF2 if you want to be buzzword-compliant.
DO: Use scrypt if you want to be ≈ 2^8 times more secure against serious attackers."
Death Star Gets the 25,000 Signatures It Needs to Be Reviewed by White House
Show HN: ImgPage, a post-by-email image sharer. No browser needed.
That was a touching story, and I'm sorry to hear about your father's death. My best friend's father was an alcoholic. I watched as my best friend struggled trying to build a relationship with him. I don't think he ever had any of the touching moments you described with his father, and I think it still affects him to this day.

It sounds like you have good memories about him, and knew that he loved you. And for the most part that's all we can ask from our fathers.
More McAfee Hijinks: claims to have faked heart attack to buy time
Wow this actually is useful
Homepages aren't designed to appeal to people who have already signed up for the service. At least in Github's case, the homepage is purely for marketing.
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I find the trend of seeing every change Github or Bootstrap makes on the front page of HN even more disturbing.
Sounds sustainable.
Hi - I'm a developer too, full time, and I'm the one who made this so I guess I should be the one explaining it. Roots is for front-end devs or devs who do front-end work. It makes doing front-end work blazing fast and much less repetitive.

As for your comment on making it yourself, I would urge you to go check out the github repo (https://github.com/jenius/roots). I can assure you that replicating this environment is not something that can be done with a couple lines of npm install xxx - there is a lot of code under the hood. I've spent more than a year on and off working on this. The command line client is fast, simple, and intuitive. The css library is extensive and extremely powerful. I built this tool for developers to make life quicker and easier when it comes to front-end dev.

Give it a shot, and if you still think it would be more convenient to roll your own, email me and maybe I can take a few tips from you on how to continue improving roots to make it more useful for developers : )
AA's founder originally believed that LSD had potential to cure substance abuse, and although he later stepped away from that belief to make religion a bigger aspect of it, researchers believe that it is far more likely to help than even AA itself. There was additional information (along with personal experiences) in a recent Reddit TIL that may be of interest to you - http://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/14mpow/til_bi...

If that's an option you think he'd try out, perhaps there's a facility nearby that could help.

Edit: If you're going to downvote, do so because something is legitimately wrong and prove otherwise, not because you don't agree with it. This topic is a big deal and my response is equally as serious.
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