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It's not about commas, it's about "asides" (I just looked this up in a dictionary, I hope it's a correct term in English) - end it's true that he's using many of them, but I wouldn't necessarily recommend changing this. Rather, I'd think about assigning priorities to those asides and grouping them in relevant chunks, using parentheses, dashes and semicolons beside colons, because - as we all should know (and those who do not have a chance to learn) - this could substantially increase readability of his writing. Long sentences can be a pleasure to read as long as their construction follows some consistent plan.

Just trying to help a bit :)
HN is ugly

What? No way - this is absolutely a case of function instead of pomp and circumstance. One of the huge reasons, I believe, that HN was really kicked off well was because when Digg went stupid and redesigned their site (which looks like OP's design to a degree) people wanted more hacker/programmer style stories in a denser, less ad-drive way. HN was perfectly placed and lots of folks came over (lots of the better users, that is). These people hated the design of digg (a.k.a. "scroll scroll scroll") and needed a more information dense yet content and comment rich environment. This place thrived as did reddit - both sites who offer very dense information pages (reddit has styles/options to make it less dense though).

So yes, design is a huge factor IMO. Startup folks, articles, good comments - all of that works together with the design. You can't say that HN works despite being "ugly".
> Seems to me like the author is just a bit behind and finally caught on.

False. It could be that some give more weight to superior hardware, and while Android's openness is great, it still lacks the polish of iOS. I'm pretty much in the same place as the author. The ideal is: excellent hardware, openness (hooks, ability to hack, customize, etc.), well-designed defaults for UX, app-to-app integration, cloud support, features. Android scores low on the first and last.
Like stuttering of a shell-shocked veteran, it's a battle scar of Matlab survivor.
The biggest reason I like using pure CSS for this is because it separates the display code and functionality code more clearly. Granted, you can and should be doing that with your JS anyway, but the boundaries are clearer if you keep it to CSS and you're less inclined to take shortcuts and start writing complex or hard-to-understand JS.
Why should anybody be punished here? Girl takes naked photos, gives them to their SO and/or posts them online... but people should be prohibited from sharing what they've been given?

I agree, it's shitty and an asshole thing to do, but is it, and should it be, illegal? Don't share nude photos of yourself and they won't be shared with anybody else. Share them once and you must assume, like everything else online, that it's public. Assuming these are adults, does nudity matter? Should I be charged for posting pictures of that party the other night on facebook and not getting a release from each and every attendee?

Now people who are stealing private photos off of hard drives are another thing entirely and should be prosecuted to the full extent of the law. And of course ISPs, registrars, and web hosts shouldn't be implicated in either scenario. The people who post pictures of people against their wishes are the issue here.

Flame away.
Not exactly, the MAC address (which is a far stronger unique identifier than an IP address) will usually only survive the first hop in an IP transmission.
They aren't push notifications, but client-side notifications that respond to the user's learned habits and situation. I guess some of Google Now's functionality could be offloaded to push, but lots of it is based on the user's location, which isn't available on iOS to an app that isn't open.
It's not the prosecutor's job to decide if the law is just or if the punishment is commensurate. The prosecutor's job is to prosecute. Unfortunately, a primary tool in that job seems to be plea-bargaining. I hope that some change in the way plea-bargaining is used comes from this tragedy, but it's disingenuous to get upset when that reform fails to arise from the very people who rely on abusing that tool to do their job and who in principle have no particular say in how the law is written or interpreted.
Try walking into the safe deposit box area at the bank absent escort or previous notification and see how that works out for you.

Again, the school is on record as giving him kudos for reporting the error - it's perfectly reasonable to assume that someone will not launch offensive penetration testing tools at your site, without notice or permission, just because they have reported the bug in the past.

He could have tested the bug without the pentest software, besides. Just because someone points out a crack in your window doesn't give them carte blanche to try breaking it after you said you fixed it.
When tcp_tw_reuse is enabled the kernel can decide to use the sockets in TIME_WAIT, before they expire or they are closed by the clients.

This is a problem though, because the connection could still be used by the client and therefore there could be some collisions regarding the TCP sequence numbers, specially on high traffic servers.
The kernel can try to avoid this collision with a technique called PAWS (protection against wrapped sequence numbers: rfc1323).
Unfortunately PAWS works only with tcp_timestamps enabled on both sides (client and server).
tcp_timestamps has also an overhead and therefore it is normally disabled on servers with a high traffic, leading to potential problems.

About tcp_tw_recycle, when it is enabled, it forces the verification of this tcp_timestamp.
So in case of NAT, multiple clients will send different tcp timestamp to the server, to the same mapped connection which points to the TIME_WAIT socket, and because the tcp timestamp are different then the packets will be dropped by the kernel. This is the reason why it is not a good thing to enable tcp_tw_recycle when you use a load balancer or in case of NAT.

A good practice is to enable tcp_tw_reuse (instead of tcp_tw_recycle), to make sure tcp_timestamp is enabled and to decrease the size of the tcp timestamp with tcp_timewait_len.
Since they are either fully government funded or jointly funded with municipalities, there are no incentives to search short term profits by running diploma mills.

Ministry of Education controls the money and conducts yearly performance target negotiations bilaterally with each higher education institution. You actually need a permit from the ministry to run any kind of school. Even our few "private" primary and secondary schools are publicly funded and regulated accordingly.

Independent expert body FINHEEC audits universities quality management schemes regularly. Some European countries use accreditation-based evaluation (for single degree programs) instead of system wide audits. At least one Finnish university has also acquired ISO 9001 cert, but it was seen as more labor intensive and not providing the same benefits (benchmarking, benchlearning) as the required peer-based audits.
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But you wouldn't call reconnaissance hacking, would you? That's just vaguely looking at the site and information about the company. Step 2, pointed at something like a webserver, does not connect to any systems the person is not supposed to have access to. Only step 3 crosses the line.
I guess Norway
I would say you're mostly alone. But I wish I were with you. I typically just waste time on my phone. GPS is what I consider the deal breaker to be on 'dumbphones' for me. Google navigation probably won't come in a device I would feel good about purchasing and just leaving in my car.
The Nexus 4 feels much better to my hand than any iPhone. The iPhone 5 feels really awkward to hold to me and the aluminum feels much weaker to me than previous iPhones.
Yes. The character-at-a-time motion commands are not really that common in idiomatic vi usage.
Two questions, which are also applicable to the actual topic of the thread: 1. How much time and effort are you willing to spend to prevent those 3-4 rare incidents? 2. How do you know if the measures you take have any effect? If there is only 1 school shooting in the next year, that's not statistically saying anything. It's equally possible that you just got lucky that year.
I meant that his external circumstances were positive: He was a critically acclaimed author, he had a loving wife, he was financially secure.
Our scrums are typically 1-2 hours long, due to an accumulation of topics for "after-meetings". What a soul-sucking waste of time.
Oh, I hear you. It's very different if you're coming from a smaller device. The screen size is a showstopper for some people, no doubt. It works for me, but I can see how others would like something more iPhone-sized.

(Parent of two here, I totally understand the "one hand" thing!)
Perhaps she is trying to cater to the far-right, law-and-order types who say things like, "Aaron Swartz was committing a crime and he knew it, so of course he should be prosecuted, just like anyone else!" You see plenty of that attitude on HN.
Given that you're primarily wanting Google software, what is it about iOS or the iPhone that is keeping you from switching to an Android phone?
User location is available to background iOS applications; Apple includes two APIs specifically for that purpose: fine and course background location updates. The app will be notified whenever the user's location changes, if it's activated or not.
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I really like the standard statistician stance "machine learning is basically just statistics". There is so much hate in it. :)

The FAQ is full of this. For those who want to know the difference--and there are two--let me add the following points:

(a) Most machine learners do not care that much about proper modelling. The point is not about having a right model of the data, but a useful model. Check Breimans "The two cultures" paper.
(b) Machine learning actually cares about computation (Big O notation and such), something that is not part of the standard statistics curriculum.
It sounds like you don't want an iPhone. I would recommend you look into Android.
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Psychological games to produce confessions are actually considered legal. FYI.
Humans will survive just as well.

'Being horrified' is not a credible threat to survival.

In fact, in both cases the affected individuals of any species will die and the rest will go on.
InstallMonetizer can't in good conscience offer Babylon translation satanware.

Or, to put it another way, if they care one ioda about the enduser experience and staying in business, they should not add Babylon software to their bundle.

Babylon is diabolically hard to uninstall. Even after following instructions found on a number of websites, trying different malware removers and doing about:config on Mozilla, it still keeps propagating - EVEN NOW, months later.

I dare someone to install the Babylon software on their main PC and then try to remove it. Go ahead, follow instructions you find on the Internet. Good luck, you'll need it.

It's an ugly, ugly piece of work.
The game is to get those people who aren't tech savvy, and PG knows and actively supports it. There literally is no way to do what IM is trying to do without somehow engaging in questionable behavior (reminiscent of Facebook in many ways)
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While the way you express yourself is a bit... silly, I do agree with the idea behind your statement.
This seems more like walking up to a teller and asking nicely in a clever way if you could have all the money. Is it even a crime if the teller responds positively to your request?
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this is courtesy of Hilary Mason's twitter feed, @hmason.
Though you stll prefer Apple's hardware and other function iOS provides to Android devices and OS? What's the tipping point for you?
It's worse than that, actually. Experienced computer users interact with a computer in a completely different way from inexperienced ones; at some point, experienced users develop the ability to do some kind of fast cognitive relevance filter on the screen, so they know which UI elements they can interact with, which ones might be important, which ones aren't, and so on.

Less experienced users can't do that -- they have to read every single word on the screen and make a decision about it. They mitigate this by memorizing specific actions. i.e., "to send an email, first I click in this area, then I click on the blue thing, then I click in that area..." (which is why constantly changing UI is such a problem for them, btw).

So what do they do with installers like this one? They just click "Next" with all the defaults on. The text on a screen like this is no different to them than the text of the EULA that none of us read.
It wouldn't be perfect, but the Google Now app could recognize that you're nearing an airport — something iOS does support, with background location updates — and then download the map data when it gets that notification. iOS apps can also share data between apps from the same vendor (via the Keychain, pasteboards, or various other mechanisms), so there wouldn't be an issue with passing that data over to the Google Maps app for offline viewing.
How often did school shootings happen 15 years ago? What has changed that makes school shootings 3-4 times per year acceptable?
Put me in the "Wow - that's too much white space" category. I'm on a 1680x1050 monitor and I have to scroll once to get to the bottom of 20 articles. And let's face it: they are presented as sentences. That means that, for me to read 20 sentences, I have to scroll. Again: I have to scroll just so that I can read 20 sentences yet I'm on a 1680x1050 desktop device.

I just don't understand this sort of design. It's the kind of thing that looks good on paper but, once you try to use it, it becomes obvious that you aren't presenting people with enough information per click. So I kind of understand someone giving me a comp for a design like this, but I don't understand someone putting this out "live" and then not recognizing the inherent and obvious problems that this amount of white space cause.

Also, put in the "I despise hate icon-only navigation, especially when I'm on a new site" group. The icons also don't make any sense to me. WTH is a smiley face for? No alt title or helpful hint when I mouse over - I have to view the URL to see what it is. Unusable. Unfriendly. And the plus sign is also a login? Whoa...

Sorry - I could not ever use a site like that.
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I appreciate the info. But I still can't seem to fathom why you can / would want to upgrade to IE9 if it were available. Or how MS is trying to spur OS sales by restricting a still terrible browser when 2 superior ones exist and are available for free.

Am I missing something fundamental here?
That is how I also understand their position currently, but I'm not sure that makes sense as their reasoning initially before the situation was so extreme (I'm assuming it wasn't, though I suppose war refugees of any sort can present an issue).
Julian Assange also already has the martyr thing going. He seems to feel like being persecuted as publicly as he is is just adding to his cause. He may be right, who knows. Point is that Aaron wasn't a martyr until after his death. Assange is different.
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You're exactly right. Many people in conservative states would interpret her response as tough on crime.
The webserver did escort him into the room with the safe deposit boxes.

He has a key, they let him in, that's their job. The problem is that he could open his box, or any other box, without actually using the key.
HJKL is madness. It's more proof that "The Inmates are Running the Asylum" when it comes to usability. We programmers are so much more apt at remapping functions to arbitrary inputs/symbols that we continue to put up with things like this, decades after the reason disappears. This is also why we need to make special efforts at understanding non-programmer users.
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Personally, the biggest thing for me is file management. I hate it that I can't just connect a device and copy files to and from it via USB.

Now, I'm not saying that I need to see every file and folder on the iOS device, but exposing a data folder for each installed application would be a big help.
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Almost anything happening 3-4 times per year is acceptable. It's so rare, that almost any other cause of death is more likely. For example, you should be several orders of magnitude more concerned about children dying from the flu than about them getting killed in a school shooting.
The other solution is for the U.S. to reign in all the statutory laws that have dropped the requirement of mens rea. Originally to be criminally guilty you had to have intent and action. Over the last few decades we have been progressing or law system to exclude intent making it possible to be found criminally guilty of crimes you had no intent on breaking. Including a strong default of mends rea in all laws that do not otherwise mention it would allow defendants to use the laws convoluted nature as a valid defense.

P.S. I am not a lawyer and probably completely wrong.
Not even 'usually', it doesn't exit your LAN at all, once it hits your router, it is stripped and your data is packed with a different MAC address on the WAN (or any other layer 2 identifier depending on your connection), same for each hop after that.
Oh for god's sake. Are you really that uninformed about the crash? Do you honestly think it was simply banks "going long"? Tell you what, if it's an education you're after, see "Inside Job". It's right here, free and legal, for your convenience: http://vimeo.com/54817244.

For someone who knows as little about what actually happened as you appear to, it's probably the best crash course available.
Just adopt a "never retreat" policy in FPS. (I suck at FPS, BTW.)
Actually, they probably weren't convicted in trials, especially if their crimes were federal. 90% of them are probably there due to taking a plea bargain. They may or may not be guilty, since plea bargaining makes a guilty plea with a lighter sentence more attractive than proving your own innocence in a way that guarantees financial ruin and risks an extremely harsh sentence.
It's like you did not read a word I said.

The insurance company are not attempting to make RPI + 4% - which is what the article recommends you must chase to live on. They are not attempting to retain the capital. The article is claiming that he can consistently make those returns ad infinitum - ignoring completely the risk of ruin. The insurance company simply assumes that overall their returns + the capital will cover the cost of the annuity over an average lifespan. They calculate this with a very low risk portfolio - because the capital costs of reserving against risky assets outweigh the benefits of chasing the returns.

Of course you pay them for the privilege, I am not contending that. However - for you to claim that it is equally risky is complete rubbish, and once again you fail to understand that they are offering a very different prospect with different risks and far higher levels of surety.
> It's giving devs some opportunity to make a living.

So does writing IT software for the Mafia.
Sounds like the author just wants Android in a iPhone form factor.
It was also the quickest way to get root. Stop-a would drop you into the monitor, then b -s to boot into single user mode. Congratulations, you are root, now just edit /etc/passwd to put in a new user "toor" with uid 0, and reboot into multiuser mode.
Well, you know.. besides that.
Sure, I get that. But diabetes and Alzheimer’s are actually related:

http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/09/25/bittman-is-a...
I find this site to be designed rather poorly, especially for a project you'd expect good design of.

- I find the icons in the bar on the top to be rather *ambiguous. I don't immediately know what purpose they serve, save for the + icon. Some text (just text?) would be useful here.

- The text underneath the link titles is very hard to read. I have to squint. The colour is too close to the white background it's on.

- I have no idea what the tomato and the T circle are supposed to indicate.

- Nested comments aren't easily scrolled over, because the indentation is quite small.

I'm not a designer at all, these are just some things that I notice as a user. Aesthetically I find the site to be quite pretty.

Edit: I like the concept a lot!
Humorous, but factually incorrect. Please don't try to learn anything from this FAQ.
I guess Hungary
That's probably because I'm using Sun Type 5 with mini-din convertor to USB. Under OpenIndiana these keys work fine, but aren't working on Linux. Must be some driver specifics. Type 6 and Type 7 work better indeed, but they are not so ergonomic as Type 5 for some reason.
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What is with all these analogies that equate testing with smashing things.

Stop it.

Stop. It.
By making herself look so deplorable it will take the attention away from how prosecutors and the judicial system works and instead focus on how SHE worked as a prosecutor in our judicial system.

With as much public outcry as there's been regarding this, I think it's inevitable that she will resign from her role as a prosecutor. By doing this though she may save Stephen Heymann's job and easily be able to land another (probably better paying) job.
Perhaps you deal with it by building it into the schedule: Set aside a specific time (or times) during the day where junior members have stand-up meetings with senior members.

Hopefully getting the interruption onto the schedule would have the benefit of allowing everyone to plan for it and try to minimize its cost. And it might also encourage junior members to try and work through problems themselves first (because they have to save questions for scheduled question times), but also make them feel less like an imposition when they do seek advice.
I'm wondering if solo founders aren't really the rule rather than the exception in business? I think the tech industry values this going back to the heritage of Hewlett-Packard, but if you look at other industries it just isn't the case.
I don't think there really is a clearly defined boundary here.

I've worked on projects at past jobs where the designs demanded that we duplicate the look and feel of certain iOS system APIs and programs to a T. Apple passed those through approval without making a sound about those bits.

On the other hand, Tapbots has had an app rejected in the past for using a clock icon that looked a little like Apple's[1], back in 2009. And that wasn't an exact copy.

We're not going to get an official statement from Apple on this, so the best I can suggest is to tread with caution. Better to be inspired by than to flat out copy.

[1] - http://tapbots.com/blog/app-store/a-well-timed-letter-of-rej...
This is what happens when you market a phone as something that "just works". It's great that iOS is able to be used by kindergarten-level children, but at the same time, it's not.

My next phone is going to be Android-based, because I believe that I can handle using mobile devices expecting users to be able to think critically.
The phones themselves... ?
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I'm not disagreeing with you at all, but if they don't understand the technology, then they should have an underling who does monitoring the abuse@ mailbox...
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