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I do regret getting a CS degree.

CS came easy to me and so I got a CS degree.

Hindsight I wish I had challenged myself to get a degree in something that didn't come easy.

I dont appreciate my degree and I blow off the fact that I even have one. It means nothing to me.

I have a 14 year old son whom I am pushing to challenge himself and be more well rounded than I was. He is learning C++, yes but he plays basketball, loves MotoGP, learning to cook and overall learning how to talk and argue his points :-)
Invisible GUI elements seems to be all the rage these days.

I don't get it - why would you want it invisible, even if you're using touch?

(this goes for special "swipe-in" stuff too, not just for the start menu)
Hope springs eternal ... and I've still got a couple months left on my (terrible Canadian) 3-year contract - rocking the original Samsung Galaxy, obsolete OS, broken headphone jack and all.
3rot13 - A heavyweight encryption algorithm: Triple ROT13. Perl.
I couldn't wait long enough, so I got a Huawei Ascend D1 Quad. It out specs almost every phone in the market. The brand is virtually unknown, so they threw everything on this quad-core 1.5GHz machine.

It upgraded itself Android 4.0.4, and it's jailbroken by default.

It bests the IPhone5 and Nexus on specs, and costs $200 less than either.
The headline is misleading. The Pirate Bay as a whole has not been branded anything by Google. Rather, certain pages using bayImg and an affiliate ad network were detected delivering adware or something malicious. So, Google's software detected this only on those pages, not the Pirate Bay as a whole, and now Chrome and Firefox now display a warning when trying to access those specific pages on thepiratebay.se.

The Pirate Bay is aware of the problem and they are working to clean-up their ads. The scary messages will subside when the ads are fixed. Pretty much a non-story.
"entirely undermined ... nothing short of insane."

No it's not remotely 'insane', it's just mildly ignorant. As for 'entirely undermined', clearly the important takeaway from the article has nothing to do with which platform is at the leading edge.

And if you follow the thesis that "retina" quality displays are what's encouraging flat ui design. it's hard to get away from the fact that Apple has been leading the way on that front.
Related:

I'm a right libertarian who didn't really understand what "left libertarian" even meant.

This essay seems to explain it well:

http://www.popehat.com/2012/12/28/wherein-a-right-libertaria...
There aren't very many politicians in DC that aren't hyper partisan. A funny thing to hit someone with given the current environment.

A Senator involved in a wiretapping scandal?

You mean the one where the government has been illegally reading every email for a decade? Or the one where the Obama Administration has done everything in its power to evade constitutional protections on privacy? Or the one where the government is illegally storing as much private communication data as they can?

You're going to have to indict nearly every politician in DC, including the President, if that's your standard. And I think that you should (indict them all), but it's ridiculous to use that as some kind of example of terrible behavior: it's the sad status quo in Washington, where privacy violations are now 'legal' and illegal torture is now legal 'enhanced interrogation' etc etc etc etc.
But you've completely derailed this post. I think you could have raised awareness about this man while also keeping the discussion on the positive aspect of these questions being asked at all.
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If that's what this is, then John Cornyn has been very selectively concerned about federal abuse of power.
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x for "look at" and i for "inventory". (I see that you have already fixed these).

"look around" used to be "look" even in the old days iirc and in these days "l" is the common alias.
It seems like you have given to many functions to a "use" verb, in the case of the switch the verb is usually "pull".

The navigational verb seems a bit odd, go is usually used with a direction, like "go north" (which is expected to have the alias "n" btw). What you seem to be aiming for is the enter and exit verbs, for example "enter door" or "exit cage".

"take" is usually "get", having "take" as an alias is probably good though.

"look at me" and consequently "x me" is almost always implemented in text-adventure games and here I expect something fitting and hilarious. ;)

For this game most of my points doesn't matter, but I recommend having implementations of the "x", "l" and "i" aliases.

A minor glitch, you don't seem to be able to look at the "chips".

Btw, I'm really loving the concept so far. :)
> Added those now as well! (and, yes, that and as a complement to the fission verb)

Thanks! Most of them seem to work, except for "talk to me" and "help help".

> Do you mean scrollback across refreshes or something else?

No, I meant scrollback within a single session. I'd like to scroll back through the log of my interaction with the game, all the way back to the logo and preamble.
Also they used an old version of HBase, 90.4 in the benchmark, HBase 94.0 has been out since May 2012, and has a lot of work to improve performance especially remove lock contention on the region server.
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I have looked through the code to conclude that Cassandra's consistency claims are overblown.
I do favors for people, but it's one thing to help your friend paint walls and another to pay your employees to help your corporate competitor.
not if your dollar tomorrow can buy you more for less...
it's all relative
This is a great first step. But for this to really make a difference to the current traditional publishers - every researcher would need to follow this example. The other problem is access to all the previously published papers. So my question is : Who owns the copyright to a paper published in a major academic journal? Is it the original authors / researchers? One would think so since they are the authors. Or do they grant exclusive rights to the journals. If the authors own the copyrights, what is to stop them from uploading their papers to one of these Open access sites?
I think chc's point is that it takes less time to google "Cornyn Guantanamo" and "Cornyn wiretapping" than it does to post the question here, and will produce a better answer to boot.
The invisible UI is such a wonderful and logical pattern, especially when constrained by a mobile platform. As touch interfaces reach maturity and users are more comfortable with the general paradigm, I think we'll be seeing a lot more applications forgo chrome in favor of an experience that relies on touch but is largely invisible to the user.
Speaking as a Texan, I do not recall seeing any evidence that, in his former role as Attorney General for Texas, he was serious about reigning in prosecutorial abuse. He didn't really make any effort to reduce the prosecutorial overreach and over-imprisonment perpetrated by his own office when he had that opportunity, and he hasn't made any effort at reform in the Senate, either. If anything, his main efforts over the years have been in the opposite direction: to imprison more people, for longer sentences, with fewer procedural safeguards and less court oversight.

I blame the "tough on crime" prosecutors and politicians (and the people who vote for them) for a large part of our current mess.
It costs $200 less than the Nexus 4? Where can I buy it off-contract for $199?
In politics, ignoring distasteful aspects of a person's politics in favor of a shared goal is called, "building a coalition."
A Z-machine file would be nice. :)
If the iPad Mini is the best computer ever, what does that make the Galaxy Note?
My parents raised my sister and I for 20 years on a civil servants salary (30-90 thousand over the time period). One hour from Manhattan, only he worked, and neither of us had to take debt for school.
>What occurs to me is that the timing of this trend, and the fact that iOS — and the iPhone in particular — is its leading edge, is not coincidental. It’s because of retina displays.

This is a joke, right? He's actually giving Apple and the Retina® display credit for this design trend? Letterpress came out in October for christ's sake; the "leading edge" of iOS apps is months behind what Microsoft has already made a core part of their operating systems.
Musk said in October that Tesla would be cash flow positive in a month's time. If he was correct, it's no longer accurate to say that Tesla is losing money.

http://www.teslamotors.com/blog/update-elon-musk
Ask HN: Who is hiring summer interns? 
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>You don't have to understand ... consistency

This is a recipe for disaster. Cassandra requires careful understanding of its claimed consistency guarantees to be used properly. Proper use of the ConsistencyLevel argument is pretty critical if you want to build a real site that actually works under load.
I honestly thought you might be kidding at first, but it looks like you are serious. The vast majority of people who have divorced and pay for 2 kids are making far far less than $150K and they aren't starving to death. Only about 5% of households in the US make more than $150K/year; if you feel like you are scraping by with that much income then you must be buying a lot of things that you don't actually need.
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Relevant:

http://blogs.valvesoftware.com/abrash/latency-the-sine-qua-n...

with HN comments:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4985100
Ugh, I'd selfishly hope they never release those numbers. I hope the Nexus brand sticks around. I was so sad when they claimed they wouldn't make another after Nexus One. Glad that didn't wind up being true.

Though, frankly, I don't expect them to give Verizon the time of day going forward.
Because you shouldn't be accessing an unauthorised system? If someone unlawfully entered your house shouldn't they be punished for doing that not only if they take something?
Number one valuation factor is growth, and how much you can assure the growth. Ultimately the buyer is looking at future cash flow versus risk of getting there, plus some compounded discount based upon where else he could park his money and earn a return.

In simple terms, the value will be some multiple of profit. The best blue chip companies get about 10x plus dividend. You are not a secure bet so you might get 3x to as little as 1x. Plus someone might have to manage the business which eats into profit.

But, the best growth companies could get 20, 30, 50x+. So your job is to argue growth.

Ultimately however, you shouldn't calculate a value. The above should just determine a minimum. You need to figure out what your business is worth to the acquirer.
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The last time for me was when they showed off the OIS and low-light capability of the Lumia 920. And the time before that was when they showed off the 41MP camera on the 808 PureView.

Both of which are far more interesting than them throwing up some schematics.
One of the advertisement networks was loading an exploit kit.
That's great, and I love that Huawei can bring such specs at quite a low price point. But specs aren't everything. How is the UI responsiveness? Does the phone itself feel sturdy? I keep thinking there must be something wrong with it, but it might just be some irrational sense of "you get what you pay for".
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> reading speed or reading comprehension, which have no bearing on glyph recognition per se

This post is focusing on legibility - how efficiently can we recognize the shape of letters and words. The studies on reading speed and comprehension, which he dismisses without any backing whatsoever, are the ones that surface the difference between serif vs sans.

His arguments are 1) "legibility is poorly defined" 2) "reading has no relation to legibility" (?) 3) "it's complicated" 4) "paper X turned out to be bogus" (because the author cheated in an unrelated study). That doesn't add any information to me, just controversy.

He also ignores the fact that sans-serif type is currently way better for reading on monitors due to their low resolution. Serifs look great on a >250 dpi display. How many books have you seen lately printed in sans that are not for kids?
Tried this, but I still see all of the files in the list.
If you're interested in Open Access advocacy, I recommend following Peter Suber on Google Plus:

https://plus.google.com/109377556796183035206/posts

Suber is one of the world's leading advocates for open access to science.

For even more complete coverage, you can follow Suber's Open Access Tracking project. The project can be followed in several ways, including on Twitter:

https://twitter.com/oatp
How does it differ? It just gives the size of the whole object -- that doesn't mean it's not an array of arrays...
I like this. I would add to this: http://www.vavatch.co.uk/books/banks/cultnote.htm for an idea of how a leftest libertarian Utopia might look. Your link mentions Ken MacLeod, I think Iain M Banks also has something to contribute here.
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The one killer feature a Nexus device has for me is that they are the first devices to get Android updates pushed to them when major updates arrive.
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"What occurs to me is that the timing of this trend, and the fact that iOS — and the iPhone in particular — is its leading edge, is not coincidental."
That only works when you're able to satisfy demand within a reasonable time-scale i.e. the iPhone.

However, the Nexus 4 had a big "Out of Stock" sign on the page which, the longer it remains, the worse it makes Google look.
The 41MP camera on the 808 wasn't exciting? Or the floating lens in the 920?

If you think this is more exciting than the technological progress in mobile phone cameras that Nokia's R&D department is making, you need to adjust your sense of perspective.
> Except for the one resource we refuse to offer--involuntary institutionalization. But we don't and we won't.

There is a revolving door between mental institutions, prisons, and the street. Talk to some schizophrenic people if you doubt me.

Nevertheless, I do believe mandatory but free drug rehab and work placement programs could help people, since I believe drug addiction is a mental and physical illness. Then addicts might be able to work for a living instead of beg for a living.

> In the evening they would go back to their $3000/mo market-rate apartment and do drugs and prostitution.

I suspect a pimp might be involved in paying for a $3K apartment if the people in it are "doing drugs and prostitution".
I bought and upgrade and installed it in a VM. At this point I only use it to check for web development issues with ie10. In that context it works just fine. No issues whatsoever. I had criticized the UI at the time preview came out. Now I find that after become aware of a couple of keyboard commands it really isn't that bad. Again, keep in mind that my use case is very, very limited in scope.
Just as you're not arguing to use C for everything, people liking high-level languages aren't arguing you should never use C (or, at the very least, a similarly low-level language).

Rather, the point is that using C is very often a premature optimization. It also comes with a sacrifice in terms of productivity, maintainability, safety, testability and readability.

So you should certainly use C. Sometimes. And the question to ask is always: "why C?" and never "why not C?".

Also, you can get quite far by doing something like generating C from a DSL embedded in OCaml or Haskell, giving you both powerful type-level features and many of the advantages of a high-level language without sacrificing low-level control of C. You could use something like CIL[1] to avoid many of C's usual pitfalls. I haven't tried this myself, but I know some people happy with that approach.

[1]: http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~necula/cil/index.html
If my Nexus is any indication, they've been busying sending out replacements for the defective devices they made.
If you code all of the time and it's something you enjoy I'm not sure a CS degree is right for you. I was CS and I switched to music because assembly and calculus didn't seem relevant to anything I wanted to build. If you work hard and build projects and put a little effort into learning the CS concepts on your own you will have no problem finding a job. You better be able to code though if you're not going to have that CS line item on your resume. I'm saying you need 5 years experience building things to be qualified most places.
I'm assuming it means compared to the on contract N4s.
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Yeah, best price I can find is $489 on eBay.
The engineers behind the technological marvel that was Color?
Ugh, that review leaves plenty of room for FUD. This excerpt for example.

One of the worst aspects of Windows 8 for power users is that the product's very
name has become a misnomer. "Windows" no longer supports multiple windows on the
screen. Win8 does have an option to temporarily show a second area in a small part
of the screen, but none of our test users were able to make this work. Also, the
main UI restricts users to a single window, so the product ought to be renamed
" Microsoft Window ."

They make it sound as though I can't have multiple windows open even in desktop mode. Furthermore, the option to show a metro app side-by-side is neither temporary nor difficult. In my multi-monitor Windows 8 setup I leave the Mail app open most of the day.
Senator Obama voted the opposite on a few of those, but as president seems to have few problems with the Patriot Act and Guantanamo.

So let's not kid ourselves that Congress has much say in the manner.
I just gave up when I couldn't work out which download buttons were for crapware, and which was the one I actually wanted.
A lot of people around here have that irrational sense. It took a while for me to shake it off, but I'm glad I did.
I think it's quite likely that LG has some sort of yield issues going on. If they have to do some redesign work to increase yield and thus update the production line, this time delta starts to make some sense. It can't be just a simple ramp up problem that they're facing.
According to this author, Tesla is cash flow positive because it is counting money from advance reservations.

http://seekingalpha.com/article/1072761-the-true-genius-of-t...

"We will NOT hold your Reservation Payment separately or in an escrow or trust fund or pay any interest on Reservation Payments, except to the extent required by law."
No, it is insane. Gruber positions himself as a voice of Apple/Design authority and is in a position to do so. For him to make the claims he does and title this article as it is, and then ignore the actual design trends is ridiculous. Another reason why he comes across as more Apple shill than journalist, which is a shame.
Which components were bad for you btw?
I think of it as being both a sincere offer and Musk continuing in his role as innovator and cheerleader for this technology.

Musk has previously stated that he has conceptual designs for an electric jet, so his interest in FAA certification of Tesla battery technology is most likely not something borne out of Boeing's current troubles.
Sure. Yes. But that punishment doesn't need to be multiple felony convictions and 30 years in prison for a minor, non-violent, victimless crime that nobody directly affected is interested in prosecuting. That's all.
Even if it was fair use, YouTube et al. can and do block things like that.

Deference to copyright has gone too far.
This makes no sense. The purpose of skeuomorphism isn't to make up for shitty displays, it's to provide a solid metaphor for the user by making objects on screen appear as if they were real, manufactured things they are familiar with. It's to provide additional affordances that would otherwise be impossible without making such a metaphor. It's to put the users mind at ease, if only artificially, by making them feel less like they are using a computer and more like they are using a physical thing. If anything, retina displays improve the ability of skeuomorphism to do these things, since textures can be rendered more realistically and the user is less likely to be distracted by aliasing artifacts, pixelation, etc.
Yes! Trademark creates huge freedom concerns.

For what it's worth, I don't think there's anything shady about an extension that replaces the ads in your browser. Web users can already install AdBlock. Or they can hide the ads with post-it notes on their monitor. If that means lost revenue for the ad-based websites, that's a problem with their business model. You can't blame the extension developers for that.
I dare you to find a 2br+ single family home in Pleasanton for $1.5k.
A lot of my CS degree wasn't really applicable to the work I actually do (line of business applications) but it was interesting as hell. I went to classes with a lot of people that hated half of the things we did (physics, math, combinatorics, machine learning, assembly, microprocessor fabrication) but every one of those things was just flat out interesting. Not really applicable, but I don't regret learning it at all.
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The screen- it had yellow patches, and at various times (usually when hot- which was another issue) it started flickering and distorting horribly.
Yeah no. I own a 2br home in Pleasant Hill. These 2 br SFH rentals for $1,500 you're talking about are a fantasy.
I guess I spend so much time on reddit, I tend to think the internet community in general is much more liberal and Democrat-leaning. Certainly, there is a strong Libertarian thread, but most of the online communities that I interact with are definitely socialist-leaning.

Net neutrality, for example, is decidedly an anti-capitalist stance. On the other hand, copyleft certainly seems compatible with certain anarcho-capitalist ideals. So, I don't know.
what kind of degree would not come easy if you were able to make a CS degree? IMHO only a few degrees like pure math or physics may be more difficult.
Fixed most of these. "use switch" and "flip switch" both work, and now "pull switch" does too. "enter door" works now.

changing get will take a little more work, so for now I just aliased it to take.

"go north" is already in the game, just later...

really appreciate the feedback!
I don't buy anything I don't need. I pay cash for everything and have no debt. But with a $2000 a month child support bill, full medical, $2300 rent, ~$500 in other bills, etc, I do not have much left at all after all my basic expenses.

People think $150k is a lot on paper - but when you add everything up, it is not actually a lot.
Desktop. Bumping line-height up from 20px to 30px makes it significantly better, IMO.
Dropbox used to say: "All files stored on Dropbox servers are encrypted (AES256) and are inaccessible without your account password." even though the files were accessible without their account password.

Mega might be doing the same thing: saying one thing to attract early adopters, and changing the marketing language once it gets broader adoption by people who don't care about that attribute. It's dishonest, but it would hardly be shocking to learn that a multiple felon was being dishonest.