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The school did a presentation at an Apple event I went to, the pupils were there too. Apple was pushing 1 to 1 deployment, everyone sets up their own accounts. There's loads of licencing and control issues though ("apps are only $1, just buy a new licence for every new pupil"). Fine for university level, but still a lot of compromises for schools.
This site is specific to India, and a quick search shows that pepper spray is legal in India. What is the point of your comment?
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While I support the overall idea, the name "Pepper the Pigs" is going to be very confusing in the USA- 'pigs' is a slang term for a policeman, so my immediate association was that you want to pepperspray police officers.
I do. It's a lot faster and in a lot of places there is no sales tax so it's a lot cheaper. The only reason not to is if you need a build to order option.
First things first - this device looks great. I'm willing to set aside the big unanswered questions (price, how are they selling it, who makes it, when will it be available) - but one big lingering question remains: games.

I know that this runs Android... so existing market games will run on it. But just like the Ouya, games are going to need some special development to work with this game pad so they have a worthwhile experience.

Typically, when a gaming system launches... they trot out all the big developers who have committed to building a AAA title for launch day. If they manage to get several big must-have games - awesome! If not, it could be a tough sell.

Don't get me wrong - I love this and the Ouya... I think android-based game consoles are great and I hope they're the future...
A guy stole half of your money and you decided not to do anything about it?

D:
The site is off-line. Can someone tell us what it says?

It sounds like instead of stealing the way people here would approve of - steal the company by backing out of equity promises - money was taken out of the bank instead. Uncivilized, if true.
Yes, and even then they've stored massive amounts of energy in a couple of very large concrete flywheels to supplement the NG's output.
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I think I've heard self defense experts recommend against pepper spray. Not sure why - perhaps fumbling around for it in your purse wastes too much valuable time, and there is the danger of hurting yourself instead of the attacker?

In any case it seems very naive to me to think the problem could be solved in such a way. I certainly don't think it is because of pepper spray that we presumably have less rape incidents in the western world.
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Peppa Pig is also a popular children's cartoon series in the UK.
Adobe is offering many of their CS2 software for free for PC and Mac.
What is the point of asking me what the point is? OK, if it's legal in India then it's a good initiative. But I wish more was being done worldwide to educate men that women aren't their playthings.
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I would be extremely wary about taking someone's word that someone else did something criminal, with zero evidence to back it up. What if this author has lied to us and you then refuse to hire "this guy" based on those lies - I imagine he would have a good case against you.
I like this idea, at least as a temporary stop-gap. Long term, more needs to be done in terms of teaching the men the value of women. That involves a change of the heart as well as mind.
Except for the loading times. If you've ever used a graphics-heavy textbook, especially on a high-res device like the iPad 3, rendering pages takes forever. It's not just a UI problem, it's an issue of effectively caching the bookmarked pages, and for a large book that might be a big problem.
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nice! I've signed up for slowpal, just in time to do my taxes so needed this
Here in Brazil, where Globo is like BBC for its power and popularity we have 3 soap operas at night, the 6-oclock Soap Opera (Novela das 6), the 7-oclock Soap Opera (Novela das 7) and the the 8-oclock Soap Opera (Novela das 8). But in fact, the novela das 8 starts at 9:00 at least. And we have another thing, in the regular season of football, in wednesday start at 9:45, so the soap opera has less time to run.

In Brazil, you can never trust the time of the programmes, when the networks make ads of it's shows they announce not the time, but the show that was before. Like "Watch Avenida Brasil just after the Jornal Nacional".
I have no doubt whatsoever that it will have a serious impact on America's economy, and I will be the first to agree that we deserve it. A shake-up will be healthy (maybe I'm a closet Trotskyist after all).

What I'm saying is that it will make no difference whatsoever in a free-market sense, because the free market presumes perfect information. The reduction in America's fortunes will never be ascribed to our lousy immigration policy - in fact, quite the opposite. It will be used to justify even worse policy. As is, in fact, happening right now.

So while it's nice to think "That'll show them," it won't actually show them. We're the country that originated Hollywood. We're really good at lying to ourselves and each other.

Also, America was on top because the Economist arbitrary invented a couple of metrics like "yawn factor" to put it there. Stupidest damn article I've ever seen. Come to the Rust Belt; I'll show you where it's not a good place to be born. In fact, if your parents make less than about $400K a year, you're better off in any industrialized country in the world.
To 1) see if I might have missed something and 2) passive-aggressively point out that your comment was off the mark.
It's the same reason I like having a macbook - I can currently also boot into windows natively or several flavors of unix via virtualization - every os has strengths and weaknesses, why not have them all?

If people can run linux, it helps linux. Even if they only "know" they can run linux. It's mindshare at that level.
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Bah. Immigrants always have been blamed for everything bad, in Europe as everywhere else in the world - but the Schengen Accords work both ways, and Germany and France want those markets. They'll never go away.
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I can't speak for New York but going to the DMV in California often means committing an entire work day.
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> There are far better sources out there

Don't hold back on us, please.
If any of this is true then you should at least make this blog post the #1 result on google for their names. So at least future parties they're involved with stand less of a chance of getting fucked.
I'm not sure that _any_ intro course goes much into this stuff. That's why we take more courses beyond this one if we need more information.
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Somebody has to figure out the name of the thief and post it!
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Yes. Every time I enter the United States, I'm asked very specific questions about why I lived a year in Canada. I have never lived in Canada, but my very unique name (Michael Roberts - just try Googling me) obviously leads to considerable suspicion.

And they don't ask it like, "Oh, you lived in Canada, what was that all about." They very specifically are questioning my loyalty. Their attitude says if they were legally allowed to deny me entry, they'd love to.
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I think 'pig' comes from 'male chauvinistic pigs', doesn't it?
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What framework are you using? I found CodeIgniter to be pretty helpful. PHP as a language is kind of frustrating because there's so little consistency in it. I usually just keep a second window up to the PHP manual and search a lot. Just go to sleep and come back to it with fresh eyes.
The aggressive part of your passivity is uncalled for. The point of a forum like HN is discussion. Some post, others respond. Even though mistakes are made.
That's the whole point of society.

Keep cool man.
Global Entry is just fingerprints.
Settings > General > Restrictions?
Google is doing the Internet no favors in trying to out-douche Microsoft in the web browser arena.
I am undergoing a very similar experience, I don't think it is wrong to name the parties involved. It would be a benefit to your local community. In the USA at least, you don't have to worry about "libel" or "defamation" as the burden of proof is on the plaintiff.
2 years ago, I was drinking 12 cups of coffee on an average day. More than that on days when I had night shifts. For some unknown reason I suddenly started reacting weirdly to all the caffeine. Somehow it sparked anxiousness in me. So I decided to stop drinking coffee altogether, since only a single cup would make me feel and behave strangely.

At first it was hard to concentrate, I had headaches, it was harder to wake up in the morning, etc. However, after two years I wonder why I was drinking coffee in the first place. I feel calmer and more relaxed nowadays and I'm capable of greater workloads now without feeling too exhausted.

Going without caffeine also made me appreciate the power and importance of sleep. In the fast-paced world we're living in, I believe people underestimate that. I honestly know people who think they can achieve more by sleeping less. In my opinion they couldn't be more wrong about it. A good night's sleep is what productive days are built upon.
> I don't understand why companies provide better support over Twitter (it is a bad idea as far as I can tell - they just have generally lousy customer service and for some reason change for Twitter, to some degree).

It's very simple: regular frontline workers represent a large chunk of the total costs of the company (let's say 30%, so you keep them underpaid and overworked to keep profits high. But social media is the domain of PR - much fewer people, much better paid, much more visible to management, and able to order around even middle management when it's for the good of the company's image.
There nearly always is. And it's often starkly different. And then the truth is somewhere right in the middle between the two accounts.
Absolutely- and I'm sure that is the intention in this case. However, if they want to solicit donations from the US (they might not care) there is the potential for confusion.
The site is down, so I'm working from inference - but robbery is a violent crime. Theft is a non-violent crime. Both are matters for the police, not civil litigation.

Since it's up to the board to decide to pursue the case, it sounds like it's neither - probably some sort of breach of contract we're looking at, which is bad enough, but not robbery.
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You can also use vinegar to remove the calcium.
Ha, yes. I'm an ex-pat in America and my first thought was "some tie-in for that show that the bloke from the Chris Moyles show is in".
it doesn't help that he keeps calling him a cofounder, when he says the guy made it clear he wanted to be a consultant + board member. If your cofounder is charging you by the hour, he's not a cofounder.
It doesn't sound like the person in question was actually a co-founder this just seems a bit too sensational:

My co-founder didn’t have any formal position or rights at the company at the time. Despite several attempts at formally hiring him, he had insisted on not being employed. Rather, he wanted to function as a board member and a contractor.

Co-founders are generally there right from the start (or very close) and don't become contractors -- they hold equity and are deeply committed to the success of the company. Also, I'd not been able to find any references to a 'co-founder' in a search, and given that LingoSocial has a lot of mentions, it seems unlikely that all traces have been scourged.
I always like https://code.google.com/p/google-code-prettify/
Someone could point out that Etsy's search is relatively poor, which was only made worse by infinite scroll.

I tried to buy something that I knew was on Etsy during the holidays, and after about an hour of looking (their category breakdown reminds me of reading through the yellow pages - remember those?) I gave up and bought from Amazon instead.
Can you try to explain a bit more what "doesn't feel right"?

And yes... as a startup that does agile, cloud / PaaS, and MDD (Model-Driven Development) you have a hard time conquering ground in the Enterprise world. You need to convince people of 3 new things...

The main lesson: don't focus on these "things", but focus on the value. You do not sell them tech, but a solution to a real-world problem: they need an app as soon as possible as time-to-market is key.
What's your proposed "non-naive" solution? (And does it leave a window of decades in some places before it can be feasibly implemented in India, where vast swathes of the country are still third-world?)
You know what formatting means, my grandmother does not. For the sake of less tech savvy users there should be a warning if the operation is dangerous in the sense that it will delete data. Maybe not as part of the question but as a sentence before, in another paragraph, so that you can easily skim it, while others may read it.
Yes I'm not sure about this. It might be a local issue. In many countries though if you win you will have your legal costs covered along with the original funds returned. Otherwise, many would not pursue injustices. Of course, if you don't feel like you have a great chance of succeeding then the risks do become "Well, it'll cost us $100,000 to try and get the $50,000 back and we're not even sure we'll win" Then it might make sense to drop it but that is because your case isn't really rock solid.
This is why I choose citizenship.

I have kids so I cannot risk some guy having a bad day at the border ruining my life.
Interesting, I had no idea that links could be submitted with and without https: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5020964
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That seems misleading.

Sure, the ChromeBook is the best selling SKU, but wouldn't it make more sense to combine numbers for the 500GB MacBook Pro and the 750GB MacBook Pro?
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Brendan Brazier (former professional Ironman triathlete) talks about coffee in his book "Thrive" and explains that you're basically "borrowing energy" that you eventually have to pay off at some point. Coffee in itself is not bad but one should use it wisely.
Do they use it for reading, or also for tests? I'm really curious about the testing they demonstrate in the video, because it seems inherently rigid and less indicative of a student's understanding than writing something down. Do they write all their tests on iPads, and are the tests multiple choice, or short-answer?
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I'm getting HTTP 503s on this story.
CS2 is not a Universal App on Macs, so this takes a PowerPC Mac, or Mac OS old enough to run Rosetta (Snow Leopard).
Well, British Tanks have a tea brewing device [1]:

"Similar to every British tank since the Centurion, and most other British AFVs, Challenger 2 contains a boiling vessel (BV)[citation needed] also known as a kettle or bivvie for water which can be used to brew tea, produce other hot beverages and heat boil-in-the-bag meals contained in ration packs.[9] This BV requirement is general for armoured vehicles of the British Armed Forces, and is unique to the armed forces of the UK."

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Challenger_2#Crew_and_accommoda...
In addition to finishing your studies, consider working for a while for one or two startups in entry roles (as opposed to internships). Most internships that I've seen have not been given enough responsibility and insight into the company to really see the mistakes that were made or the decisions that lead to success. Even if the startup fails (and most do) you get to see first-hand how easy it is to screw things up.

FWIW, it took me 15 years of working for others before I felt like I was prepared to start my own company. YMMV.
I love the concept of Reddit AMAs, but have been consistently disappointed by the results. It's not the meme-y questions (I actually find the idea of asking everyone the same inane question oddly interesting) but it seems like interesting questions/content never get surfaced- the interviewee gets absolutely overwhelmed with questions and only answers a few.

I'd prefer a system where a notice goes up that Nate Silver is holding an AMA in 24 hours- people post questions then, and get upvotes/downvotes according to community interest. Then the AMA-er answers them in order until they stop.
I don't know about your parents, but mine don't browse Amazon looking for gifts for my kids. They go to BestBuy or Walmart and pick something up.

Additionally in an office full of software developrs there are multiple people who are looking to pick one up or have already done so ( Myself included ). I think the "not very tech savvy" crowd would be buying the name brand laptops with Intel processors and Windows since that's what we have trained them to do for 20 years.
I am trying to sympathize but I agree 100%. You seem to be complaining about being inconvenienced for a few hours as a result of your inability to be on-point with your profession for the few seconds that it matters most during your re-entry to the country. The world is full NOT bright people. You can't really expect them to know the difference between software and web developer. You just need to solve for that and make sure you make it easy for them to let you back in.
I like to have multiple books open at once all in my field of view. I think you could only replicate that with multiple tablets.
Here it is, Rape-aXe: www.youtube.com/watch?v=9guyVVqHcYo
It can be made for cheap and there is demand for it.
We have a NXT which we were able to programme in LUA. It had a very nice library and worked well, much easier than the visual block programming

Edit: http://hempeldesigngroup.com/lego/pblua/nxtfunctiondefs/
I figured it out! The name of the thief was "James Sanderson", whatever you do do not start a company with this person.

And if I'd ended the post there, you might have actioned my advice.

It's terrible that this person has lost out, and more terrible that the person that wronged them got away scott-free. That's not fair, it offends my sense of fairness and justice, and even though I have no connection to the author I would be happier if justice was served.

But what would be far more terrible is if someone else, completely innocent, was caught in the cross-fire amongst our demands for justice. This could happen lots of ways. Someone with all good intentions could make a mistake when snooping, and post the wrong name (in this example, I used my own name). At the other end of the goodness-of-intentions scale, the submitted post could be a complete fabrication, designed especially for people to snoop out and target a specific victim.

Acting based on the say-so of someone on the internet that someone else did them wrong is a very bad idea: you have no reason to trust this person, and if you do believe what you hear on the internet then whether or not justice prevails comes down to which party submits their story to Hacker News first - not ideal.
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There is one in Hamburg [1], highly recommended.

It consists of a tour with several rooms modelling a variety of features of everyday life, including a boat trip. There is also a bar at the end, where you buy a drink (paying for it was rather humbling for me) and sit down around the guide for a final chat. You never get to see the guide.

You are given a walking stick but for me it was pretty useless, I was stumbling on everything and everyone the same.

They also offer dinners in the dark.

The best part of the experience for me was realising that you are in the blind person's (admittedly fake) world, some form of opposite of when the blind person is in your world when walking down the street and bumping against a car parked in the middle of the street crossing.

[1] http://www.dialog-im-dunkeln.de/
They have a presentation about what's coming in HTML5 at a Google dev con and you are surprised they didn't go to the effort to make it work in browsers that, at the time, may not have even supported these features?
Why would someone publish his writings when the website does not even publish Privacy Policy and Terms of Use?

* Who owns the content ?

* Are they going to keep there for lifetime?

* How would you make money and let us write? In future they can monetize on my content.

btw, let me admit, I created one for linkback http://throwww.com/a/41k
Looks silly to me, like an oversized controller with a mini tablet stuck on top. I don't see how that is portable, unless "portable" doesn't mean you can put it into a pocket anymore.

I guess it's a nice prototype but this won't make it to the shelves in this form.
In Haskell, they call this a Reader. This parallels the Writer, which lets code just 'write' to the provided values but not use them (more useful than it sounds, for instance, logging). But it is basically a context value, yes.
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:-)
You certainly can; that's what the OP is doing; but the parent says you shouldn't. I'm just pointing out that he's not really living by his word, contrary to what he says.
As a similar, but easier, experiment, try listening to Adobe Acrobat read a PDF file out loud-- especially if the PDF contains anything at all interesting, like mathematics, figures, tables, or any kind of "float" that pegs to the top of a page as the text flows around it.

While tools are available to let the PDF creator tag the document in order to facilitate reading, in practice they don't seem to be used much, and even then the experience is painful at best.
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Are you sure he's guilty? Otherwise you are the criminal now...
Someone close to me works at a very good public high school in Massachusetts. The district is in the middle of the enormous task of planning/budgeting/funding a new school building. At one point they showed some preliminary plans to various interested parties, and the teachers were immediately prompted to ask where the bookshelves were, or where freestanding ones could even be placed. The answer from the superintendent was that this school was to have no physical books whatsoever, so they're not bothering with shelves.
That sounds like something that Readability, Pocket, or Instapaper could very well implement. Considering they already declutter webpages as it is.
Judging by the reasoning people are providing, I only see problems with poor implementation of infinite scrolling, not infinite scrolling itself, solved by better implementation (like your "View all" suggestion).

In truth, your view all suggestion as a way to fix pagination is akin to me making a paginate button to solve infinite scrolling.
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And for me that is exactly opposite - I prefer i3 + my own set of scripts, and Gnome/KDE/Windows/OSX sucks more than by a mile...

And you know what? We're both correct and have good arguments.

The point is: _your_ use case, habits, needs...

So now let us compare and discuss whether bricks or helium are better for doing the dessert topping...or was that a floor wax?
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