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Understanding chaining with Underscore.js.
The Underscore library gives you a choice of programming style: functional VS. chaining. Under the right circumstances, I think chaining can lead to more readable code.
> And the picture he made was in accordance to the regulations.

How so? It's explicitly said that you cannot photograph aircraft equipment.
I develop for Linux deployment on Windows. Why? Because I also develop other things and use other tools that are Windows based, and its easier to have just one setup rather than changing machines or dual booting all the time. Windows with a Linux server in a VM is a perfectly fine solution, and unless your Linux dev machine runs exactly the same distro and config as your production server, you're going to need a separate VM or dev server to test on anyway.
I was able to find my old flat, which was about two miles from BT Tower.
Unlike MS and Apple's services, Google doesn't need Android to be a brand. I think it was quite clear from the beginning that their aim isn't to ship devices for the sake of spreading Android rather than to ship devices for the sake of spreading their online services and increasing ad revenue streams. I don't think this whole premise that the Android brand is being diluted/removed is anything new nor surprising.
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The Making of Warcraft Part 3
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This is a good idea, I actaully created something similar using PhantomJS the issue is web fonts there isn't a solution to rendering typekit webfonts using a headless webkit implementation see http://code.google.com/p/phantomjs/issues/detail?id=247 for more details.

As soon as webkit is updated to have better support for OTF fonts urlbox will become so much better
There's a good view of Alexandra Palace, about 6 miles away: http://btlondon2012.co.uk/pano.html?view.hlookat=-146.3290&#...
You're right about the cost however the time issue is changing in many places:
Much of Europe: 6y med school then 4-6y specialist training (10-12 years)

Cost: minimal depending on country

Australia and the UK: 6 med school, or an undergrad and 4 years postgrad (min. 4y) + 2 years general training + 5-6 years specialist training (12-13 years)

Cost (aus): 7k per year of undergrad study
Pay (aus): 56k starting salary (up to 80 w/ overtime)

The US/Canada: 4 years undergrad, 4 med school, 5-6 years training - 14 years

Cost (us): 30-50k per year study
Pay (us) : ~45k intern

So the time taken to training completion is not drastically different (a year or two) but the total debt rung up does weigh on not just he doctors but everyone employed with a degree in the us:

Having said that, it is often said that doctors in the US earn more than their colleagues overseas: this is not true; although the top 0.05% may have higher earning capacity on average the US doctor earns about the same as elsewhere (certainly between the US and Australia anyway)

When you take int account lifetime debt and interest payments i feel that US doctors are getting a raw deal really
I just went to check there weren't any ninjas or rock stars this time.
Bing on the other hand is much better than Google if you are searching for technical info on Microsoft products.
Wait was making me a trouble. I solved it by doing a few shots by hand. But thanks for the future reference.
I agree as far as parsing most HTML. I use regular expressions all the time when I'm working with HTML I've written by hand because I know what's there.

I just find it interesting that the efficacy of regular expressions can be framed as a computer science question, a practical question, and a statistical question.
I wanted to sign up, but the form had autocomplete disabled and you lost me there. What's the incentive for doing that? I never understood it.
As a person whose roots in Appalachia (West Virginia/southwest Virginia border) go back a long ways, I'd love to see someone talk about the other dirty aspect of coal: the way its mined. I get the feeling that a very large percentage of the population has no idea that they are literally blowing the tops off of mountains throughout Appalachia to get this stuff. Anyone who thinks this is acceptable has proably never been to a site where it has been done(it looks like the surface of the moon), or lived near a creek which gets filled in with the massive amounts of runoff from it.

I wish they would go after coal the old fashioned way, but it is more expensive and more dangerous that way.
If you don't have a seat in the board room, your equity can disappear in an instant.
Not necessarily. I'm going out on a limb and guessing at what they're using under the hood and if I'm right then font rendering wouldn't be the issue. I assume it's some sort of app that uses webkit to render pages then x-server to create the png. So in my experience, what's usually the problem for me is my own markup. If you're not meticulous about cross-browser consistency then this sort of stuff happens. It's not that it looks terrible, but it's just disappointing as it's not what you're used to seeing or what you want people to see.
Well, they have a hip looking office space near the Whitehouse, in downtown DC.
Since when is the President a 'lawmaker?' If you want to get law-makers (i.e. legislators) to take notice just write your representative a letter.
Unless you've consistently done stupid things and lost their trust, it sounds like you've got assholes for investors.

Did they ever try to help you on product, business, or operations?
There's very little you can do with the captured CO2. It's a pretty inert gas that can only be broken up and reused for a second reaction if you add energy which is contrary to the goal of creating electricity. So the only option is storage, which is a bit of a problem at scale. There are some test power plants in germany that try this, but the basic idea is to collect the CO2 and push it into old, used natural gas fields. However, obviously nobody really feels safe sitting on a giant bubble of CO2...
It seems... civilized.
> It's the hangover from those standards that leaves kids today thinking that Python or Ruby are simpler than Java.

I would really love to hear how you could possibly believe otherwise.
I believe there was a flaw in his argument, and that was Facebook was using SPDY on the front end, but not on all the back end services, or external services Facebook uses...
The company behind Pebble has been working on smartwatches for a lot longer than Pebble - well before 2011. There was even a launched product - inPulse - before Pebble.
This is one of the more vacuous instances of blogspam I've seen here. I give up on HN.
owner here, flash support is coming very soon...
Wow @ http://mudcu.be/midi-js/js/MusicTheory.Synesthesia.js. That's super interesting.

Looks like it came from here: http://rhythmiclight.com/archives/ideas/colorscales.html

One of the most disappointing things about my time at Berklee was that I never met anyone with Synesthesia.
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I've not found anything that is even close to on par with Acrobat for fill-in PDF forms either.... Other viewers can sort-of handle it, but the results don't look right most of the time.
Square has raised more money then any other "startup" I can think of. Will they ever be profitable?
Depending on size of the band, strength of it 'closed' you could potentially wear it on your bicep like runners currently do with some iPods. I can't see it being moved off the wrist though, I'd assume appendage is to keep the language as broad as possible.
Asteroids have negligible gravity. Solar wind is miniscule so far from the Sun (twice as far as the Earth, 1/10 the radiant effects). Mining generates prodigious amounts of dust. It would grow linearly until you were operating essentially in a dense field of dust. It would stay - maybe not 10,000 years, but forever for mining purposes.
Reconstructing the Past: How Recalling Memories Alters Them
Thank's for pointing this out. Although I'm not an apple fan, this sounds pretty nice. :)
I can't wait for the first petition to get over 160 million votes though ....
There's a surprising lack of people and candid shots compared to the last 10,000-shot panaroma by 360 Cities several years ago!

I assume that has to do with the timing of the shots. These seem to have been taken very early in the morning and towards the beginning of autumn (based on clothing).

Unlike the 360 Cities panaroma, there are far less discontinuities this time, though I have already found a significant one [1]. I guess the almost 5-fold increase in shots is the source of the improvement.

Also, the depth of view in this panaroma is ridiculous! You can actually clearly see individual people playing soccer or walking through very distant parks...

[1] http://btlondon2012.co.uk/pano.html?view.hlookat=-96.8425...
Right, in correct terms there is no such thing as 'clean coal'
Another notable sense that we completely lack is echolocation, which is common amongst subterranean and underwater animals.
The Java ecosystem is not terribly usable from Scala - even if you can call all the methods, it's not idiomatic, it will expect Java collection types etc. And few of the worthwhile parts of Java's libraries are 20 years old.

You can build cool stuff in scala + e.g. wicket, I've done it, but there's an extra layer of awkwardness to deal with that doesn't exist with python/django.
Not as much as you'd like. Thanks to massive omnibus bills, converting Yes and No votes into meaningful stands on issues is far harder than you'd like. A no vote on a bill putatively establishing $YOUR_FAVORITE_CAUSE as the law of the land may have been because a rider encouraging $YOUR_WORST_CAUSE was attached and the whole was not judged worthwhile, even before we consider mere politics themselves.
By the looks of the terrible font rendering it's most likely khtml2png.
Tesla drops 10%, shares unshortable
No one has written about it yet, but the exchanges are blocking short orders ...
> From what I understand they want experienced Linux sysadmins/devops.

I mean, I just guessed based on how "Linux" is typically used, i.e. GNU's userland. I don't exactly have time to call up "93% of hiring managers" and ask them personally.
Just switch to a national health service. The whole idea of paying as an individual, or having individual insurance, is just wrong. Society should insure society.
"Pirated" is commonly used as a simple synonym for "stolen" these days. Common usage has shorn "pirated" of any nuance or connotation. Saying "Theft is theft" means that asking for a more nuanced verb than "pirated" in this situation amounts to excusing theft.

Please excuse me for invoking a phrase that Sony itself (possibly through it's RIAA mouthpiece) uses in precisely the same context for its irony value. I should not have attempted the use of a subtle and low-energy communication modality like irony.
Building an MP3 Player with Qt5
According to the patent application, the slap bracelet is entirely covered with a flexible touchscreen. Sensors detect which side is facing the user. That way, it shouldn't matter whether the bracelet stays in place or not, the UI moves along with it.

Also, being a child of the 80s, I remember slap bracelets quite well, and in my experience, they fit quite snug and didn't move around much at all.
Our school's IT department just upgraded the server we run Moodle (an open source CMS) on from Windows Server 2003 to Ubuntu Desktop. They used the desktop version of Ubuntu because no one in the 13-man IT operation knew how to use Bash.

We hackers live in a gated community. I've seen people in shock when they find out someone doesn't run Linux as their main OS. I was flabbergasted to find out none of our IT folks knew how to use the terminal.

tl;dr The double bell curve of tech talent is still in full swing.
Seems like he can't keep up with his own self!
[Review] Nvidia GeForce GTX Titan: Dominates every other video card
err, my bad
You can't claim that Scala is more mature than Python just because it's built on the (very mature) JVM. You have to look at the tools you will actually be using, and neither Play nor Lift are as mature as Django, nor is Scala the language as mature as Python.
I keep thinking about whether it'd work as a product category, we keep hearing that the wristwatch is dead (I'm wearing one mind) but this could appeal to quite a few people.

But, lets keep in mind Apple has some patents for some pretty radical ideas floating around and reading too much into patents is like reading chicken entrails.
I logged in to post that very message. Why are we petitioning the executive branch to "make it legal?" Last time I checked, the Constitutional authority to write laws is vested in the Congress.

Be careful how much you clamor for Obama to make all your wishes come true, folks. You might just get more than you bargained for.
I'd guess less than 1 in 10,000 companies have SF (probably more like 1 in 100,000) ... whereas I'd guess 1 in 10 companies have Excel. But yeah, who needs programmers, right?
I'm confused as to why OTF will make everything better?
Hollywood dubbing: The German Bruce Willis and other invisible stars
Then why are there tons of educated Estonians moving to the UK doing the low level jobs then.

And first amongst former soviet states is not exactly knocking it out of the ball park.
You sure?

From: http://jquery.com/browser-support/

jQuery 1.x	IE 6+
jQuery 2.x	IE 9+

"Any problem with jQuery in the above browsers should be considered and reported as a bug in jQuery."
Perhaps Google saw companies like Amazon launch an "Android Tablet" and become players overnight riding on the coat tails of all that hard work Google did around that brand. Imagine if you could somehow launch an 'iOS tablet" or "Smart phone" and ride those coat tails? I think that's the biggest problem with continuing to invest time and energy improving the Android brand vs your own.
Bringing "outsider" or looking into the problem with "beginner's mind" is a great idea.
Sort of engaging the "beginner's luck" to win :)
The title is still wrong. You can be using a Samsung phone with a custom ROM and not experience any issues. It's an issues with Samsung's ROM, not the hardware.
This was a recent change by made by the copyright office, to revoke "phone unlocking" as an exception to the DMCA. The copyright office is under the President, IIRC, so the White House has the ability to directly affect this.

The other route is to just codify the exception into law, but pushing a law through about this takes time.
Thought the same. Clicked on the link and thought I would see something new. No luck.
"If you could figure out a way to pay doctors better and separately fund research … adequately, I could see where a single-payer approach would be the most logical solution,” says Gunn, Sloan-Kettering’s chief operating officer. “It would certainly be a lot more efficient than hospitals like ours having hundreds of people sitting around filling out dozens of different kinds of bills for dozens of insurance companies.” Maybe, but the prospect of overhauling our system this way, displacing all the private insurers and other infrastructure after all these decades, isn’t likely. For there would be one group of losers — and these losers have lots of clout."

A big lesson here is that once you create an industry - no matter how destructive it turns out to be - you cannot easily get rid of it without huge political costs due to the number of people who would wind up unemployed if you got rid of said system/industry (and who would wind up hating your and your political party, which may mean you start losing elections.) Who is going to risk that except for fanatics?
It's pretty clear Sony did not intend to do this

How can you say this? If you've ever worked in a corporate environment, you know that layers and layers of reviews and supervision and requirements exist to prevent any mis-step. If this image flew through that process, then Sony knows what it did.

I think you're making an unwarranted assumption. My assumption about Sony's massive, multi-review process is far more likely to be upheld by fact.
Sounds like a variation on coal gasification: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coal_gasification

The article is a bit scant on details like by-products or the emissions from the combustion of the syngas in the secondary combustion process.

And, whenever I hear "Clean Coal" I feel like someone is trying too hard to sell me on something. This whole article reads like it was written by the coal industry.
urlbox creator here.

Thanks for the comment. You're absolutely right - There are companies / developers out there that just want to add this feature to their site without spending a lot of time and resources on it. urlbox takes care of capturing, storage, caching, thumbnailing and also optionally wrapping in mobile devices
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'Excel' is a problem or a solution depending on the size of the business.

For SMB, it is an enabler and quickly gets things done.

For big businessess, "System of records", "single source truth","SOX", regulations, compliance etc don't mix well with Excel approaches.

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...because people tend to google who else is using it "in production" before using a language? I looked at it and despite all cool language and cool tooling, I wouldn't choose it over CL or Clojure. But isn't Racket the most popular of the Scheme dialects?

And, as a joke, their name is really bad for business, though I happen to like it just because of this ;) : For "racket", in my part of the world, the first meaning of the word that pops to one's mind is the one related to violent organized crime. Even in the English dictionary there's the "2. A dishonest business or practice, especially one that obtains money through fraud or extortion." meaning (http://www.thefreedictionary.com/racket)
Yes, but how much is $45 in Poland? You can find clinics in USA that treat you for a flat $50-$100 fee, problem is specialized care.
That's why I think financing campaigns should only be done by individuals and with a cap of $100 each to "equalize" the money vote, just like you equalize the regular vote, by giving a person the same vote everyone gets. But the way the system works now, the "money vote" seems to be much more powerful than the real vote, and because certain individuals or corporations can put as much money as they want on that vote, that ends up skewing the election and the way the politician will fight for certain bills, greatly.

So put a cap on how much you can donate, and ban corporations from donating. Only individuals should be able to donate. I don't care that they think they need $100 million to get elected, and with this they'd only get $10 million. The point is their competitors will only get by with that much, too, but in a much fairer system, where the voices of many more people have to be listened to, instead of just the voices of a few.
Because Racket has a run-time it competes directly with Clojure, which is obviously widely popular. You can bundle the Racket runtime in your binaries but startup is slow (much slower than Gambit, for example).

So for me at least, it's simple. If I don't care about startup time and just want the best ecosystem, Clojure is a no brainer. If I do care about startup, you have to pick one of the Lisps, probably either SBCL or Clozure.
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See also: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4079567

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EDIT: In short, open source contributions help a lot. (also: you'll have better luck finding not just jobs, but also valuable connections on HN, than anywhere else)
It's not about upgradability.

It's about the console I buy today having a comparable shelf-life to one purchased 5 or even 7 years ago. When the 360 in my home office died late last year, I was faced with paying essentially as much as I spent in 2008 to get a new one, but knowing it would be end-of-lifed and all-but-unsupported in a year.

To say nothing of the odd situation where that same 360, purchased in 2008, was no better than the 360 I bought for my living room in 2006 (insert RRoD joke here).

Yet the Roku I bought last year for my folks was better than the one I bought in 2009. And the AppleTV I bought last year was better than the one I bought a year before.

The public is never going to swap a GPU. But they certainly understand the difference between a $300 purchase that lasts 5 years and one that lasts 2. And a $300 purchase this year that confers an improved product over what one could buy for $300 five years ago.
UDP is connectionless. How can we have encryption without a connection? Using a block cypher would be less secure than stream cyphers and the controversy could halt adoption.
Are you suggesting that we should go with Lift/Play instead of Django? If so, can you elaborate on your argument? As you can tell from the article, I'd love to see Scala beat Python, but I can't see Scala scoring over Python on the web framework front.
Interesting question, especially as the Sony/KDE-Icon-thing is such a topic today:

Is this copyright infringement? They use apple.com as an example. The grabbing process clearly doesn't happen on the client side. Even if it did, what would be the implications of using Apples website, logos and trademarks embedded in your content without user interaction?
I really, really wish this particular link would disappear from the net. It is a TERRIBLE test. It has been soundly refuted over, and over, and over again. Yet it recurs.

He used a non-caching proxy with SPDY, against distributed non-SPDY back-end resources. This is not how anyone in the world will actually use it, and his test is effectively akin to testing the speed of a sports car by having it drive behind a transport truck: The whole foundation of the test is nonsense to begin with.
my math was off --a little :)--but still
Found him!

http://btlondon2012.co.uk/pano.html?view.hlookat=171.9737...
"The buddhists are right, the only constant in life is change"

Not totally true. I want to point out that there's a huge gap between what Buddha saw and taught and what is said by the teachings in modern Buddhism.

Gautama Buddha went to people basically every single day for 45 years and tried to awaken them. He absolutely did not teach people that it's possible to eliminate suffering while alive, and he never taught that meditation is a way to enlightenment. Instead, if we make a gist of the content of his life work teaching we can see that he taught two things: the theory of transmigration (reincarnation), and the law of cause and effect. He taught these things to make people realize how the world works, and what he taught is still totally accurate even by the view of today's world. There were ways in his teaching from the problems people have to the solutions they want to get. But those ways are absent from modern Buddhism.

So we can conclude that while things in the world exist through change (reincarnation), there is another constant meaning in the world, and that is "truth", or law, of how the world works – the law of cause and effect.

When we see and understand the world of the truth then what we find is permanent and never changes. All the answers are fixed. Only questions change.
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Reminds me of the image jokes on Google+ signup screens. Subtitle: Very funny google, asking me about data that you already know.
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