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I see a cost problem, an accuracy problem and an abuse problem.

* The cost problem is that the service would need to have a dedicated number that people would call and leave messages, and a rather sophisticated system to receive the calls, understand speech and manage the service.

* The accuracy problem is that the system would need to decode the sender's e-mail address, the recipient's e-mail address and the message itself, with no errors, otherwise the email would go to the wrong person or not be delivered at all, or it might contain the wrong message.

* The abuse problem is that anyone could call the access number and leave a message for anyone, but without any way to trace the sender or establish his identity.

My opinion is this is a non-starter, a cash hole. Sorry.
At least in Berlin, you would have no problem on weekends to find a party between 1am and 5pm. :-)
Shelf space on retailers is still the most important way to advertise. After Steam hit brick & mortar PC sales hard, the retailers are now ready to immediately and harshly punish any platform that tries to do the same.
Fun anecdote: about a decade ago I spent some time at the National Lab that's right next door to this site. They made you wear dosimeters at all times, even if you weren't anywhere near the nuke stuff. If it was your first time, they gave you a guidebook to what all the alarms, sirens, klaxons and bells meant and what to do if you heard them.

Things like, "a high pitched alarm with a bell is a fire alarm, evacuate the building to a designated evacuation point and wait"

or "a siren with no flashing strobes means that you should move quickly to a designated decontamination area and begin decontamination procedures"

the one that that everybody thought was both scary and fun
"if you hear 'the howler', run"

no indication of direction or location to meet, just...scatter to the four winds

nobody asked under what conditions you might hear this "howler"
Also do not visit the Wikipedia page on kerning. It taught me to recognise bad kerning :(
I'd also suggest searching her sent mail to see if any previous mails have been sent to the said id.

but i agree with other comments here, and wouldnt worry 'too' much.

maybe you can send a kind mail informing of what happened, and request to delete the same.

~B
I highly doubt any ultra-restrictive form of 'ammunition control' would pass Constitutional scrutiny. Saying the 2nd Amendment doesn't protect ownership of ammunition is like saying the 1st Amendment only protects free speech in a literal sense (words coming out of your mouth) and not speech on the Internet.
You've only been doing it a week... going to bed at 5pm when it is sunset is well and good in February. Come summer time trying to tell your body to sleep when the Sun is high in the sky might be a big problem. Certainly not impossible but it might not feel so great for you. I fell into a very natural (seeming) sleep pattern from 8am - 3pm which worked for me at the time. That was a lifetime ago though and it simply isn't practical for me now.
Even when such crimes cause outrage, civilian gun ownership is never suggested as a means of reducing the crime rate.

I wouldn't say "never".

http://www.armbritain.com/forum/index.php
You are allowed to find a device useful (i.e. gain value out of it) without being productive on it. That is why e-Readers sell a lot - they are useful. We're arguing about productive use cases here and that in my mind does not include commenting on facebook walls. If that is a narrow viewpoint then that's fine with me.
And not only that, but the media by glorifying anti-hero school-gunman or batman-shooting types also encourages this stuff by turning national attention on these loonies, making the next one want to do it even more.

The most hypocritical part is the media will turn around and talk all day about gun control, violent video games, etc etc when they themselves are the biggest problem.
I doubt that you were unconscious. Are you sure you know what that means? Also, it's spelled "unconscious".
Hurting others is the only purpose of the gun. Using screwdriver, knife (in most cases) or car to hurt other is a misuse.
I think you're responding to a point of view I didn't express (and don't hold) but thank you for sharing your experience.

In any case, what "police exist" to do depends very much on the jurisdiction they serve in. The situation outside the US is very different from the one inside the US. Please bear that in mind before asserting that your interlocutor has an "irrational fear of guns".
And, presumably, in college.
These "next-gen" consoles are boring. And they seem to not only want to keep the same old high prices, but also eliminate options like playing used games (next xbox). For true next-gen gaming I'll be waiting for Steambox for its affordable games and I assume it will have great support for Oculus Rift, too, from day one.
I can definitely see some military/security-related applications for this suit; for better or worse...
Anyway this is an exciting invention ! But the downside of the suit is that it does not filter surroundings based on a aggression/negative intent.
Now I don't know how we could easily detect that an individual wants us harm : maybe faster heart rate, he/she is the only one following us and is either walking/running fast to catch up or tails us at a defined pace. Actually is an individual's walking pattern unique?
If yes that could also distinguish everyone around you. Anyway that is the most exciting article I have read today. Time to get some work done now:D
Yeah it's totally irrational to seek the most obvious way to prevent recurrence of the shooting massacre of 20 children, which happens with a marked regularity. Only a New World Order could explain why people want to ban guns.
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I think this is the thing that really makes me hate the media coverage of all this. When I talk to individual gun owners, they're talking about statistics and how the "assault weapons ban" is just a prohibition on cosmetically scary looking guns, etc. But you watch The Daily Show or any given broadcast from anyone with a nominally anti-gun slant and you would think they're all militia members who patrol the border looking for "illegal Mexicans" and need their personal stockpile of three hundred and seven firearms in case Obama "suspends the Patriot Act" to declare martial law.
Do US Americans really think it would have been terrible if the British Empire had remained in control and their country turned out like Canada, Australia or New Zealand?

Absolutely. We didn't then want to bow before your King then, and we do not wish to bow before your Queen today. We did not wish to put down as poor and malnourished servants as you did with Ireland, nor did we wish to be slaughtered en masse, or divvied up and split like you did with India.

We choose to lead ourselves, to make our own decisions, come good or bad. And, last I checked, we've faired better historically from an economic standpoint than all of the other former colonies of Britain, and even Great Britain its self - all of which took great instruction from the lessons we taught on self-governance.

I find it shockingly surprising that someone would come and defend any of the European colonies as being good for the rest of the world.
So, what percentage of people shot in US last year were the criminals shot by the owners defending their property?
I think productivity is reflected in the software we use, not the device.

I've long maintained that there was no more productive time or software or device in my life than a Palm os device with Datebk6. In contrast, it was made to be productive, not novel, or distracting. Today's phones have all this horsepower, but to what outcome?

It's a fair reflection that right now we're working our way learning through the novelty and distraction app economy.

The masses don't know what else to do with tech (be productive?) because their interaction with tech (tv, radio, web) has always been about finding that next hit of novelty or distraction.
I mortgaged my future with a Mac
I found the iPad to be a better media consumption device than my laptop. Which means that I rarely spend my non-productive time on the laptop.
Which in turn creates a higher spatial divide between work and entertainment, creating designated places for each. That alone makes me less likely to procrastinate and more productive.
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I hadn't seen your previous reply, I don't always follow up on my own posts :) I wouldn't argue there is subjectivity in reward, there always will be. I don't work in Windows but I know a few folks that do. I haven't heard any stories of people feeling they got shafted and some doofus got a reward, but I am sure it happens, and I am sure it is not unique to Microsoft in any way. My argument is with people that claim it is the norm and they base that on their own (non-verifiable) experience, or worse on some troll blog like miniMSFT.

As for comments about seeing who got rewards based on title change, a title change doesn't always mean a large pay raise, and there are hidden rewards like gold star bonuses and HiPo groups that have little/no outward evidence, unless the recipient starts talking about them (which they tell them not to do), so I would say you probably aren't seeing accurate signaling based on job titles alone. The fact that some of the best rewards are secret is one of my beefs with the system.

Also, to clarify, I am not a fan of Microsoft's system, but when I hear stories of people who claim it leads to internecine wars, well that just isn't my experience in the last 8 years, or the experience of anyone I have talked to personally.

Ultimately there has to be some kind of ranking system as there is a fixed pool of rewards. The only alternative I could see would be exactly even sharing amongst a team. You could argue for that, but even as someone that has socialist sympathies I don't think it would work or be fair. There are people on my team that produce more than me, whether it be through being smarter, working longer hours, whatever. To say I should get the same reward as them is just wrong.

So if we agree there has to be ranking, well there's your stack ranking. You could argue with the curve fitting, but your claim that 1 in a group of 10 would get no bonus is just false. Curve fitting doesn't happen on a per team basis. It's more like 10 in a group of 100 or 100 in a group of 1000. There is nothing saying that an entire team couldn't end up in the top 10% of rewards. It may well be the case that on your team of 10 superstars one doesn't get the reward they feel they deserve, but that is because someone else in the calibration meeting was deemed more worthy, your teams ranking isn't done in isolation and in a team with 10 superstars there can be other superstars in the general vicinity, even more than 10. To claim that the system results in people plotting against the ones they are ranked against in order to sabotage them just sounds like conspiracy theory thinking. In my experience it results in people upping their game, or leaving if they feel they are unappreciated. Both are reasonable responses, some attempt at sabotage is not.
"I bet this article about how awful Unity is"

Yep.

Does Unity make me want to buy hardware that's hard to upgrade (save for buying a whole new machine) and make me want to abandon a host of software that I use regularly?

Nope.

edit:
I very much enjoy using some proprietary software though. Windows 8, SublimeText, etc. If people want that kind of proprietary support for their Linux-like environment, it certainly seems like OSX is the only real solution atm, especially for people who can't be bothered to go do everything themselves (like me).

I know some people might brand people who pay for software as "casual scum" and whatnot, but I'm willing to trade my money for time and ease of use. I didn't mean to be a dick to the OP and certainly can understand why he would move away from a platform.

However, not going to Debian/Mint/any other alternative and just choosing to dump thousands of dollars for a new environment is something I would not do personally.
A pithy response, but could you flesh it out more?

In particular, are you suggesting that this organisation has any sort of substantial following? If you make your claim explicit I can disabuse you of any misconceptions you maybe carrying.
I'm sure he is just a law abiding citizen, going about his patriotic business. After all, the vast majority of gun owners are law abiding, so I'm sure we have nothing to worry about. </sarcasm>
> Hurting others is the only purpose of the gun.

If by "others" you mean other people, then you managed to overlook hunting, target shooting (an Olympic event), and historical weapons collection, among others.

Private ownership of guns is a complex, serious problem and social issue, but mischaracterizing it doesn't help.
As someone who has never touched XBLIG as a dev or XNA, why do most of the games on XBLIG look so horrible? Is it just a bad SDK from Microsoft or can they just not attract top end development talent?
Societies must make the decision whether the opportunities lost by the vast majority of law-abiding people are worth denying opportunities to the very few criminals. Is the cure more damaging than the poison? Is a gun-free society forcing its will on those who want to own guns better or worse than a society in which criminals have slightly easier access to guns by stealing them from law-abiding owners?
The game price range on PS4 will be $0.99 to $60.

http://www.escapistmagazine.com/news/view/122311-Sony-CEO-Gi...
I mean, fluoride does reduce IQ in children: http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/news/features/fluoride-childrens...
The number of innocent deaths caused by overly powerful government greatly dwarfs those caused by the freedom of firearm ownership.

So if your goal is to reduce death of innocents, it would be best to side with greater freedom rather than greater government power.
I tried getting a dog to solve the same issue. It did not work out so well. If you can put up with all the whining, barking, vet visits, 3 months of basically chasing around a pooping, peeing toddler, then go for it. It is not as simple as being the "pack leader".

Getting a dog is likely not going to solve your problems and you should fully investigate the myriad negative consequences of getting a dog, including robbing you of your freedom. Also, if you don't live in a house where the dog has free access to a backyard I strongly recommend against it.

Your are going to need to socialize it as a puppy. Going out on walks at 5 am does not sound like a good socialization opportunity. And what is the dog going to do while you're at school?
Google scholar indexes journal databases and so takes advantage of that filtering that has already been done by the journals. Yes its more relevant, but we're talking about alternatives to the journals.
If Google Code can't catch GitHub, then SF definitely wont.
For a long time, I used to have a "night owl" schedule and I thought I was very productive until I switched to 12am-5:30am sleep schedule. I sleep at most 1-1:30am, but if I ever stay awake past 2:30am, I don't go to sleep anynmore. I also take a 15 minute nap during the day at about 3pm, after which if I would be very refreshed for the rest of the day.

I think the early-to-rise sleep pattern is very productive and best even for some people that consider themselves night owls now. Most times, a lot of people think they are night owls from their late night sleep schedule from their teenage years. There are some exceptions, however.
Though there is usually a counterpoint to most individual points, I found that my perception changed much in the same way. Like the author, I couldn't even grasp the idea of how people were giving up so much control of their devices / computers.

The irony is that given the amount of spyware/crapware on Windows and foisted upon you when using Android, I actually feel more 'in control' of my computing experience than I ever did before.

The major thing that helped me take the jump was the presence of macports or homebrew - I love having a ton of open source software available on my Mac within essentially one command.
Martin Fowler on Schemalessness, NoSQL, and Software Design
Is there a way to ensure that both redis and zeromq have the same buffer size / flushing interval?
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I had the exact same experience. One thing not mentioned are the Mac applications you can get, such as 1password, SizeUp, Sparrow etc. - those Apps are 50% of the pleasure of owning a Mac, in my opinion.

The other day I wanted to make some professional voice-over tutorials and I went to our local music store and bought a 400$ microphone and I was surprised when the guy in the store recommended Garageband for recording. But he was right. It is indeed a excellent piece of software.
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Wait - your numbers come out to something far less than 28X. 28x the homicides divided by 5x the people = 5.6x the rate?
Because, fundamentally, replacing any part of the web platform is hard. The last big, breaking, change was GIF -> PNG. HTML -> XHTML might happen once IE < 9 becomes irrelevant, but I doubt it.

But, in the case of JS, there's one major practical constraints: Introducing a new language must not regress performance of JS. (Why? There's an absolute ton of JS on the web. Getting 1% of the web using a new language able to be quicker doesn't matter if you regress 99% of the web.)

You may think, "Sure, that's easy. You just add a second VM, entirely disjoint from JS!". Unfortunately, it's not that easy: if you allow the languages to coexist in the same page, you then need to GC across both languages (as some objects are shared between the two runtimes, primarily those relating to the DOM), and cross-VM GC is an active research area, where nothing has been shown without at least a 10% performance hit to both GC impls.

Well, then, how about having a "generic" VM that runs JS within it? You're going to have an uphill battle to get performance equal to current JS VMs, because their bytecode (ignoring V8 for now!) encodes a lot of high-level semantics of JS, which means any new language, to have good performance, would have to share a lot of semantics with JS. This inevitably puts massive limitations on what any new language can be like, and restricts it to being "JS-esque".

So what can we do? There are two basic options: subset JS, though inevitably this doesn't sort out things like `==` v. `===`, but you can get to something where you can statically check you're using a sane subset (e.g., not using `==`, not using any undefined variables, etc.); or, write some language not overly dissimilar to JS and compile down to JS (the "not overly dissimilar" restriction is a practical necessity as you can't really afford to send large language runtimes and standard libraries over the wire). In both cases, JS is ultimately the target thus it's important to keep on fixing what can be fixed with JS (e.g., the lack of a module system, the lack of memory-efficient data structures), but both can improve the situation over unrestricted JS as it is today.
The worst thing is that most of these SourceForge URLs are loading horrible slow for me, sometimes producing 504 Gateway Timeout after 30 or more seconds. A few weeks ago i tried to read some code on the site but it was faster to download the source and browse it locally. GitHub's code browser works instantly like I would browse the code locally (except the annoying slide-in animation).
You should give debian stable a try, I never get any errors... ever. Of course I've already decided on what window manager, browser/etc/customizations I want.

Of course, xmonad+dmenu+debian stable is quite a bit different from Mac OSX. If you are only worried about productivity though, it's hard to beat.
In my iPad2 I have the Kindle app, iBooks, and Flipboard, so I can read everything I need or want to read.
Also, with Paper by 53 and my Wacom Bamboo Stylus I can doodle mockups to attach to any ticket for my team.
I'm more productive than ever.
Thing is, most people don't know how to zoom a website on a desktop browser. On mobile browsers it's even worse and almost nobody will bother with the pinching and tapping and panning just to read some text, unless they _really_ have to.

If you are running a website, I encourage you to test different font sizes and measure the difference in engagement. You might be surprised.
There are two main issues with this sleep schedule:

1) Getting home at 5 (not likely with a job in the US, especially with a startup-job like the one I had in the valley, where performance often seems to be measured mainly by the amount of time one is physically present in the office each day)

2) Most of social life happens in the evening, even over the weekend. I guess one could get away with it in the Netherlands, or other countries where bars stay open all night, and many only start going out around midnight (one could become known as the ultimate party animal by being fully awake while others are getting sleepy around 4 AM... ;-)

Finally, I did try a similar sleeping schedule for a week when I was hiking on Frazer island in Australia. To conserve the batteries of my flashlight I went to bed at sundown (around 7pm) and up with sunrise (around 4am), and I rarely felt more well-rested...

But yes, due to synchronisation issues with others circadian rythms I don't think radical sleeping schedules will become common soon...
28x is based on the raw figures (500 vs. 14,000) not adjusted for the differences in population.
That's funny. Ubuntu pushed me to Mint.
Obviously the absence of guns do not make it impossible to stage a revolt; they do, however, make it much more difficult.
The reasons why others aren't adopting Dart are only partly political, and not for the reasons you make out: the political side of it is that most (all?) other browser vendors would much rather only add a new language with an openly developed specification for it; the technical side is there's no way to integrate it into the browser without taking a performance hit both for Dart and JS.
Yeah, Google is pretty good at that. I also use descriptions of movies in google to find the name of the movie, and it works pretty well.
I feel like Mountain Lion will push devs away from Apple.
At least, that's what's happening to me.
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I love spicy food, but I find Sriracha almost sickly-sweet. Anyone else prefer El Yucateco or Salsa Valentina?
If you're posting on HN, then how is it that you were in a position to be be affected by Windows/Android spyware/crapware ? Doesn't add up.
You mean the opportunity to increase your probability of violent death? http://aje.oxfordjournals.org/content/160/10/929.full
I usually read resumes, but I don't really care about them. Candidates usually send "cover letters" (this is all email, so, really we're just talking about the 2 grafs that precede the resume in the resume email) and a cover letter is enough to get me on the phone. If I like you on the phone, I will never bother looking at your resume.
It's open source. You can fix it. :-)
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There was a discussion about this yesterday in r/games, the general conclusion was indeed the retailers: http://www.reddit.com/r/Games/comments/191dec/all_ps4_games_...
Translation: "Self-driving cars will redefine what we mean by 'car'".
Twelve months after original publication?

They oughtta require that it's in the hands of the general public within twelve freakin' microseconds of original publication.

Twelve months makes no sense.
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Low likelihood of profitability make putting a considerable budget behind an XBLIG game an irrational risk. Technically there is no reason you won't be able to make good looking games with xna (at least in 2d, not any worse than what you can get running on flash or iphone).

The "top end" developers mostly go straight to XBLA.