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Thank you all very much for the feedback on this, I wasn't aware of the negative impact the viewport resizer was having on these mobile devices. It is to be expected that iframes would perform poorly on them and I had included a regex to redirect mobile user agents to the home.html page to avoid them having that served up. Perhaps the mobile device detection needs a more reliable method... Any suggestions? :)
That's outstanding, even if the graphical figures still need work.
I went to a dolphin show at the Vancouver Aquarium a few years back and wandered near the dolphin pool after the show. I saw one dolphin playing with what looked like a tiny piece of thread that accidentally fell into the pool. He was spitting it out, watching it dance through the water, quickly sucking it in only to spit it out and watch it wiggle, over and over. He was just entertaining himself and having a good time.

They're incredible animals.
Nintendo still try to be creative when it comes to hardware. The Wii was innovative and the Wii U is... unique.
I know that the bridge headset replaces the speakers, but reversing the system would remove a lot of the inherent problems with a system that relies on speech for input.

I remember using them when I was on the Harbour Bridge what feels at least 5 or 6 years ago - so maybe the tech has developed enough since then. Especially if Google has been throwing resources at it.
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What's the minimum to hire and keep talent in this competitive digital age.
>>Google found somewhat better ways of searching documents

And yes, that storing and searching the world's information on your finger tips is the biggest problem with regards to information distribution the world has faced so far.
> -- silent preloading of games you may be interested in

This is only brilliant if consumers don't have data caps.
It's not like the PS3 had PS2 backwards compatibility for very long - hardware support was phased out within a few short months, and software emulated support within a year[1]. I'd say it worked out pretty well for them thus far.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ps3
LA citizen here. I just got to Silverlake from Santa Monica in half the time as usual. It took 40 mins compared to the >1.25 hours it usually takes. Stretches of green lights as far as the eye can see. If this keeps up it will be incredible – grateful to the City of Los Angeles for making this happen.
Any thread on dolphins is not complete without a link to the 1992 NYT article on dolphins: [http://www.nytimes.com/1992/02/18/science/dolphin-courtship-...]

Here's the sad part: none of this is new. 1992. 1992. Over twenty years ago.

As children they make a best friend for life, they form complicated alliances for mutual benefit, they form political alliances/gangs, they help each other out both tit-for-tat and "pro-bono" while keep score of debts (I help you today, you will owe me at some undefined point in the future), they group together to accomplish tasks (sometimes/often at the expense of other dolphins, for instance a female they are trying to get with).

Another important study was done to research the presence (or lack thereof) of a universal dolphin "language" (EDIT: found source! [http://wakeup-world.com/2011/11/28/the-discovery-of-dolphin-...] but not peer reviewed research). It involved showing dolphins in one aquarium a sequence of objects (red ball, green box, etc.) and recording the sounds made, then travelling to another aquarium with dolphins that have never been in contact with the first and playing back the sounds made, then watching the dolphins "locate" or "identify" the object the sounds were made in response to. They achieved an astonishing (if memory serves!) 86% accuracy rate implying audible descriptions of objects, much in the same manner that a "bee dance" can be universally understood across hives/colonies except it's based on actual sounds rather than movements.</cannot find source>

Regardless of whether or not you feel dolphins deserve the title of "non-human sentient beings" (whatever "sentient" means, it's such a non-word), I think anyone involved in the mass slaughter of dolphins in an attempt to ransom money should be imprisoned for being a killer (Reference: 900 dolphins killed in Solomon Islands as black mail for raise in pay negotiations. Sorry, but f* them [ http://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/news/article.cfm?c_id=2&... ])
For cheating in games? :)
Nice to see someone using .local as the development domain.
Also try http://betali.st and http://startupli.st
I think it does make some difference; there was some level of denyability with the current generation that is gone.

>triple-SLI GTX

Roadmaps supposedly show the next Xbox is planned for a(nother) ten year cycle, presumably the ps4 is the same. Half way through it's lifetime it will be beaten by low-end GPUs; perhaps even integrated graphics and smartphone graphics. Not to mention the fact that there has been a faster single GPU available for a year already, then $350 (7870).
I don't understand the open source hate. Whether the code is open source or not makes a lot of difference. Not hating on google, but mozilla has this one right.
I feel like such a youngin ;)

I know that I was reading Reddit at the time, but I think I read about News.ycombinator on another site - Perhaps Techcrunch?

One of the things that really flavored the early community was that many (most?) of the members were also applicants to YC, so were both a) very interested in startups, and b) all trying to be on their best behavior.

I recall at the time being concerned anytime a post didn't get at least 5 votes, because it meant that I likely wasn't contributing to the conversation substantively enough.

The site's flavor has changed a lot over time - From YC applicants, to general Startup News, to a more broad Hacker News, but it's still one of my favorite communities.
This was fascinating to read. I think in much the same way, but less vividly. For instance, when reading a formula, I do not immediately form a picture in my mind. I can do this if I've taken the time to establish the association, but with algebra I'm prone to rely on my visual understanding of the rules. Instead of switching to a visual representation, I've learned to visually move the symbols around on the page according to visual analogs of the rules of algebra.

I do, however, do exactly the same thing when derivating the sine function since it is so closely associated with the graph of sin(x) by default.

I found your example of building system diagrams interesting. I think I may do the same thing, but often it is unconscious. I do not see the image as I'm constructing it, but if I look, it's probably there.

I'm also tempted to suggest that I have a secondary mode of thinking that involves constructing arbitrarily complex logical trees (i.e. if this is the case, then this must be the case) since I seem to detect logical inconsistencies intuitively and without delay. I do not see them, they just occur to me with no representation at all. Perhaps this is a bit like the "just know it" type of thinking expressed in the parent post.
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I'd started using Foxit for the same reason. But the speed advantage is no longer an issue. Adobe had closed the gap and Acrobat reader now loads just as fast as Foxit. Besides, Acrobat's rendering is far superior to Foxit's (not to mention Foxit fails to load some PDF document or displays garbage)

Acrobat is the new Foxit nowadays!
I like StarCraft and I love analogies so how's this for one:

People who originally built and pioneered the Internet were the Xel'Naga, the original users of the Internet pre-September 1993 are the Protoss, and all the newbs who have flooded the Internet since are the Zerg.

And then you have Terrans like me who are fragmented, caught in the middle, and have to choose sides. I choose to protect and fight for the Internet.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Races_of_StarCraft
Wow, Data Caps in you home connection?, You should really fight against that..
I imagine it varies a lot by category/board. Cat boards (which is what I use it for) = no intent to buy. Cooking implements = high intent to buy. Women browsing $20k dresses, somewhere in between.
I think you have it backwards, they do not want DRM. This is not the publishers suing, this is booksellers.
Is this an abusive relationship?
Yahoo's new home page look no game changer
Hundreds of startup resources - vccafe
Going the moon was big! Going to the mars will be big!

Google historically speaking will be similar to invention of the telephone directory.

>>What profound social changes happened because of the moon shot.

Beginning the process to eliminate the biggest single point of failure humans have today, The Earth!

Moon landings were the first steps to mankind expanding into space. If you don't think that's important, wait till the time a comet hits you.
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Google Glass means I won't have to pull it out of my pocket anymore. Now my life will be constantly enhanced at every moment by great hackers, just like it has been enhanced in increasing amounts since I first touched the Internet.

Try this for enhancement: shut everything off and talk to a human being, be it the local bagel shop owner or a homeless person. If I had to bet your life isn't being enhanced, it's being drained away, app by app. How many coffee cup pics must one post online? It gets boring after a while, and, imo, it's a sign of depression and a feeling of inferiority.
I am kind of sure that Google will ditch Java and go for native web apps for it's operation systems. They will unify ChromeOS and Android experience by getting rid of Java on Android and making web apps running natively on the OS.

I see a lot of signs from Google that they want to do this. The "X-Phone" project, this effort for pushing packaged Chrome web apps and even that new Android status in Google campus are all signs of it.

I am very happy that this is happening!
What exactly causes the "...up down up down up down..." pattern. I'd think day/night but I don't think the graphs have multiple points per day.
It's really only questionably legal if you consider the DMCA a valid law. (I choose not to.)
You are awesome.
Heh, that's funny, I was just watching a 3 part BBC Documentary on Versailles[1] (part 1 Louis XIV, part 2 Louis XV, part 3 Louis XVI). They talked quite a bit about Louis XV's attempted assassination and Damiens. From what was said, most other countries were appalled at the execution style.

I'd still say The Terror and Great Terror during the French Revolution were far more barbaric while masquerading in the name of enlightenment though. Even someone like Robespierre, who initially despised the death penalty and was seen as a champion of free thinking ended up being tyrant responsible for the deaths of thousands and restricted basic human freedoms like the press and speech.

[1] http://docuwiki.net/index.php?title=Versailles_(BBC)
I've got an i5 that runs it smooth like butter.
It is odd though to say circumcision is a Christian thing, when generally it is not, and for a long time in the past was considered definitely not Christian.
That seems like a massive, unworkable kludge that will frustrate users more often than it actually works.
Looks to be weekdays vs. weekends.
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5253862
I'm a Chrome OS user so I've had some time with this launcher. I'm not sure why, but for me having a launcher versus a bookmarks bar is a huge psychological difference. I really do feel like these are "apps" not websites, even when I could just as easily navigate to them in the URL bar. It makes Chrome OS feel like any other operating system when my brain SHOULD say "hey, this is just a browser".
I can't believe I missed seeing this on twitter. But I'm not sure I agree with the article's conclusions. The author writes, "As bad as it seemed, the fallout won’t be severe—just a week or so of mass embarrassment and a lifelong cautionary tale for PR pros, marketers, and social media gurus everywhere." I think the fall-out could be substantially longer term.
Around here there is a saying that crows can count to 2. So as the story goes: If you are going to hunt crows from a shed you should walk 4 men into the shed and then 3 should leave. Then the crow will count one, two, many men went in and many men went out and will consider the shed empty. I don't know if it is real but I have heard it from farmers/ around where I grew up.

Then again: Crows aren't too intelligent, the ladder trap seems to be effective around the world - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LZLYiOn83Po
It's going to make Sony billions.
They are throwing lots of money trying to make a name as VCs, that's my opinion.
I think tiers are a bit silly. There are certainly a-tier schools like Stanford. That said, some very bright a-tier students I have met have nothing on b or c-tier school students that have a bit of life experience.

Not everyone can afford (or is willing to fork out the $$) places like Stanford.
I agree with this sentiment. The biggest gaming platform in 2018 is one that hasn't even been started on yet.
I think Google really should be running this as a free promotion. A pair of Google Glass (Glasses? Not sure how to pluralize) is worth less than two shares of GOOG, they can afford it. A contest to win a free pair (or two) would really drum up some buzz, I don't understand the strategy of charging for the winner. It's kind of like those contests where you "win" the chance to buy super bowl tickets.
I agree deeply. After I chose not to do a PhD I was told all the downsides from everyone. Before that it was all Roses to try and get me to do my PhD with everyone.
Ask HN: Who wrote the content of your website?
Yes, that might be a stupid question, but I am willing to hire a person who will take our technical documents (internal) and produce a website which describe the product in a clear way.

Did you hire an external?

What's the title shall I use, if I want to publish an ad for it?

Feel free to recommend me one.
I guess what just surprised me was crows would be that alert when they really have the advantage on us when it comes to escaping and being aware from having the high ground and ability to fly (well unless a person is hunting them, which is unlikely in a city). That combined with their communication with each other of potential threats.

I grew up on a farm around lots of wild animals and you're correct about rabbits though from my times of trying to catch them or saving baby bunnies from the cats. They're very observant, but I always figured they had much more reason to be from being alone and also limited to the ground without the ability to climb trees.

I've seen some birds that have little awareness (mourning doves and some sparrows). Sometimes they don't even realize you're almost on top of them until you're right next to them and then they freak out and fly away.
Why the need to package apps like this? Going to a web app with HTML5 caching will automatically make your app work offline. The installation IS going to the URL. With the added benefit that you can easily update the app by invalidating the cache. Just give web apps more localStorage, more caching space and indexedDb and viola!
And yet you still had time to leave a comment? If you want to criticize what someone writes, read it first. As it stands, you're just an ass.
Don't miss the announcement that Firefox for Android now supports ARMv6! Many ~$100 Android phones now have the option of a better browser!
btw, love the site. Its clean and simple. and great photos too.
They're in San Francisco building a phone company.

Seriously, we at 2600hz continue to be heavily influenced by the counterculture; the ever-inquisitive minds attracted to the largest network the world had ever seen.

To think that the first transatlantic cable was laid in 1957. We've come even further from "what hath god wrought", but it's only getting crazier each day.

The phone phreaks didn't go away, they're all over the world tinkering away.
Perhaps they gave up waiting for your implementation.
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The typeface on this page creates a visual illusion whereby the terminals and serifs appear brighter than the stems and bowls.

Makes me wonder if this happens with a lot of serif faces in light on dark color schemes and if there's some way to fix it.

Also, not sure if the OP is reading, but while the alternating dark/light text on a grey background is an interesting idea, it just doesn't work. The dark on dark text is hard to read, the emphasis is too strong and comes off as heavy-handed, and the overall effect on the experience of reading is negative in my subjective evaluation.
same here. also when i read or type something, i hear my 'inner voice' speak it out. funny, as i type this out - the voice goes exactly in the same speed that i type, in a sort of coaxing comforting way. maybe has something to do with teachers dictating, and me jotting them down throughout schooling.

i'm curious what happens in peoples minds when the sign goes from red to green at a crossing/signal. some people almost always need to hear a honk or someone moving ahead of them before they realise it's already green and being ahead means you may not get that visual cue you would if you were further behind.

it would be interesting to see what techniques f1 racers or 100 metre sprinters use to get their minds to tell their bodies to 'get off the block'.
This describes a protypical dysfunctional organization:

In every society information is a means of making a living or wielding power, but Arabs husband information and hold it especially tightly. U.S. trainers have often been surprised over the years by the fact that information provided to key personnel does not get much further than them. Having learned to perform some complicated procedure, an Arab technician knows that he is invaluable so long as he is the only one in a unit to have that knowledge; once he dispenses it to others he no longer is the only font of knowledge and his power dissipates. This explains the commonplace hoarding of manuals, books, training pamphlets, and other training or logistics literature.
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Reading the article and then reading the comments. I start to feel very confused. Do we need a huge debate about this? Some of us just want a higher degree and we just want to go to graduate school to do research. For me, I also love the people I have met in graduate school. It may turn out to a wrong decision? But we will never know that because we could not go back and re-make those decisions. Even if somehow one day I knew for certain that going to grad school was a wrong decision, so what? It was something I wanted to try and I tried it. I think I would regret more if I didn't try something I really wanted...
I wouldn't call some crows falling for a trap a clear indication of not being intelligent as there are probably many that also avoid it. Even humans fall for obvious traps again and again that many of us also avoid (phishing, Nigerian scams, pyramid schemes, link jacking, etc).

Not trying to be a defender of animal intelligence, just playing devil advocate for the sake of good, intelligent conversation :)
I also hear from others that I think "totally differently" - but when they tell me that, I also realize everyone thinks totally differently! The mind is immensely complex, and I think it's a positive thing if we still attempt to communicate and do things with people very different from us.
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Because an icon will invite user to use the app. Most of those apps are exactly what you described.

Packaged apps are needed because web apps can't access OS level information.
After posting a number of jobs on freelancer.com I eventually found a guy for our content in the Philippines who was amazing and very cheap.

Id say try freelancer, odesk, etc but be very clear about what you want and expect to test out a lot of people with small tests before you find someone who is good. Once found get them on it fulltime for a few days or weeks until its done.

A great trick is to hide in the spec you give them a sentence that asks them to bring X up, this way you can tell if they read it or not.
I think what shocked me is that this happened to begin with, and that it wasn't shut down immediately. Point #2 would have come in very handy, had they had a plan in place.
You make a good point with people relating PhD's with the amount of money you will make. PhD's not only have a cost of paying for university but also opportunity cost is also existent. Also I completely agree with your comment on the idea that you can live comfortably, not rich on a PhD.
Replying to everything:

- Good catch on the subdirectories within a git repository. Currently, we'll open the file you end up on with $EDITOR, which isn't necessarily correct relative to your cwd. I'll fix that.
- Re: curses cleaning up after itself, I haven't seen that in xterm or terminator. Are you sure that's completeme's fault? Perhaps it's iTerm or emacs? I've never used iTerm and don't have access to a Mac. It could have something to do with this function not getting called: https://github.com/mattspitz/completeme/blob/80328799a000180...
- I originally had this writing to your bash history but removed it because it wasn't really executed by the user. This may end up being obviated by: https://github.com/mattspitz/completeme/pull/1 I'd like to have Return open your editor (with history) and something else (Tab?) dump back into your prompt.
- I don't know what could cause your misbehavior in emacs with Ctrl+G. I'm using 24.3.1 and can't reproduce it.
Example: when I see a math expression x times y, I mentally see a rectangle with side length labeled "x" and perpendicular labeled "y". So understanding (x+h)(x+h) = x^2 + 2xh + h^2 was totally natural for me. It's not abstract symbols to me, it's pictures in my head. I see a tiny square in the upper right labeled "h^2", and a big square in the lower left labeled "x^2", and two rectangles along the edges labeled "xh".*

For me, it is the exact opposite. Teachers would spend ages trying to explain this to me, eventually I just had to accept the equation as being true, it never has really made intuitive sense to me. I dealt with it by coming to the conclusion that it is just the way math is agreed upon being done in the particular syntax we have all agreed upon using.

A good # of math courses later (enough for a minor in mathematics) and that is still basically my understanding. Physical diagrams don't really mean much. For some things they are useful, mostly for intro calculus concepts (which is a subject I find to be amazingly visualizable in general), but I just had to basically take all of Algebra on faith as being "agree upon syntax".
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2 million people != 2 million devices
The content of Yahoo press releases makes it into Business Week and other MSM, which Jill Schmoe reads daily.
"The result of the hearing was published April 10th 2012 and states that the court chose a narrow interpretation of the CFAA, holding that the phrase “exceeds authorized access” in the CFAA does not extend to violations of use restrictions.[9]"
Another reason: They are largely tribal and loyalties are to the tribe (and maybe Islam,) not exactly to the state or to the ruler. The same group of people that will die to the last man if their cousins are attacked, might seek shelter when fighting against an enemy in war he is sent to fight.

Another controversial possible reason, since we're stereotyping: They tend to marry cousins and have done that for generations. That isn't without consequences http://www.as.wvu.edu/~kgarbutt/QuantGen/Gen535Papers2/Inbre...
Just linking some box info for curious ones
http://www.aboutphone.info/lib/phreak/boxes-2.html

..aaand the plans for them as a bonus
http://www.textfiles.com/phreak/BOXES/
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