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someone can (in theory) develop a mobile friendly, efficient (and open source) runtime

I don't think the format is documented to that level. And even if it is, it is very complex and hard to get right for other implementations (and it is a moving target controlled by one player, a bit like MS office formats).

And why bother? If you have the choice, why not go with HTML5 which already has some good and very fast free implementations available? Or as you're implementing your own environment anyway, go completely native?
You certainly have little knowledge of Christians personally, or the ones you know are a bit weird.

On the other hand, if you read a little history, Crhistianity was prime for extincion much more than today in the first and second centuries (ever heard of Gnosticism? That ruled in those days, that was the 'real knowledge')...

In any case, do not let other people's prejudices conform your thoughts. It is bad for your health.
Ruby would be my guess.
I thought this was the inspiration - http://www.digitalsundial.com/.

Fractal Sundial gives a "digital" reading using the shadow cast by obscuring sunlight.
Certainly the economist needs funny and awesome headings for their articles. Man.
Just a side note: They quote a person from the Ronin Institute, which is a virtual research institute for independent academics. They've received a fair amount of press as an alternative model for scholarship / academia.

http://ronininstitute.org
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I actually did. I was told by @Allan -- the founder of LV -- that I was "trolling", "writing inflammatory blog posts", that my "entire base of argument was based on the wrong facts". All in all, a very obtuse strawman argument, so being well spoken, sincere in many ways, will only lead to that sort of reaction from LV.
Ask HN: How to monetize data mining skills
Hi,
I am a software programmer with several years of experience and I do freelancing a bit. These days, I used to learn machine learning techniques and R language. I wrote some programs for sentimental analysis and text mining. I have some knowledge on recommendation engines too. How can I monetize my skills? Please help.

Thanks.
MeeDoc: iPhone developer NYC (or: Helsinki). Your main task would be to steer our mobile client development, mainly for iOS but also co-ordinating android/WP dev. This is a hands on developer position with sw management component. The job is based in NYC, but requires you to travel to Europe, Middle-East and (in the future) Asia.

A fairly old product presentation video can be found here: http://vimeo.com/49555892

We can offer very flexible working environment and a competitive package incl. equity.

Interested? Please contact hackers@meedoc.com
You're not cynical, you're just anti-Google
I lost mouse focus a couple of times by moving the pointer out of the browser window in the HTML5 version which lead to multiple game deaths. This didn't happen with the flash version. Is there some technical barrier in browsers preventing complete mouse capturing?
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Reminds me of GreenSock TweenLite and indeed they’re using it for the timeline. http://www.greensock.com/
Maybe interesting:

http://www.righto.com/2013/01/a-small-part-of-6502-chip-expl...

http://www.visual6502.org/
Hi. Just a pointer: if you think the child rape scandals are just a thing of today and that they will cause the Catholic Church to disappear, you need to re-evaluate your history. A mere skimming through "Brideshead Revisited" will show you that we Catholics are quite used to priests & bishops behaving awfully. Not thay I condone them. Just that you know.

On the other hand, what do you mean by "dying"?

Do not mistake your expectations/subjective views of the world for reality. They tend to differ. For everybody. Me too.
It is pretty cool technique. There are a few things you can do via FIBs but what I'm thinking of here involves cutting a very fine hole through carefully targeted areas of the chip to expose the element in question (or its wires) so we can observe them. We actually have had to do this for debugging a couple of times on 32nm chips (cutting down in and pico probing ). we mostly only got away with it because we had all the floor plans, masks, RTL, documentation and very fancy equipment though, it would have been very difficult otherwise.
There already are several open source flash runtimes, but neither is complete enough.
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What was the subject of the copyright claims? Flatness?
If you are having 2TB BW then you would not host on linode or rackspace cloud, but take a dedicated server.
Cute, right? I have the same impression, but this may be because I didn't live then and I don't associate it with all the other things that happened then instinctively.

You're right of course in that it's hard to see a woman on a tractor, but what I'm saying is that 50 years of propaganda can't pass without any consequences, even if it was widely recognized as a propaganda and it was actively opposed by many. I think that these efforts actually did something for women, even if only a little. They - the communists - even did something for racial equality: they offered stipends for people from African countries (of course those aligned with communists only) and it was quite normal (I'm being told, please don't blame if that's wrong!) to see a man or a woman with different skin color in the university.

Anyway, while communists did many bad things, they at least sometimes tried to do something good. Someone better educated than me should say how those efforts fared - I suppose they were not that successful, because as you said, it's really hard to find a woman on a tractor :) - but it's worth noting, I think, that they were made.
I am not an expert on tractor drivers' genders, but when I meet a female engineer over 30 in Western Germany, there is a chance > 80% her roots are in Eastern Germany.
Game ran like complete garbage in HTML5 (Firefox 19, Windows7 i7 2600, 12GB ram). It had a very low framerate, did not respond to mouse in a timely fashion and had no sound. Ran completely smooth and flawless in Flash. Isn't progress (HTML5) great.
Flash version won't start for me, FF19 on Ubuntu with Flash 11,2,202,270.
No, I definitely had the DMCA notice when I tried it two days ago.

I remember because I was trying to get it not having heard of the takedown, and it wasn't working, and, after getting to the page, saw the notice.
Would you use an api service that aggregated addresses and could tell you if a given address was known to be associated with fraud? And that let you add addresses to the 'blacklist'.
browserquest.mozilla.org managed to do sound OK.
I've been told Prolog is used quite a lot by financial institutions. In fact, one of them bought a whole Prolog company (I forgot the name, sorry).

I agree prolog is quite simple and nice but that is true mostly for the pure prolog subset. The actual programming language with cuts and all the complexity is not so simple anymore - it's not purely declarative (e.g. semantics of the program depends on the order of the clauses).

EDIT: it is Experian (a credit analysis company) that bought Prologia, the Prolog company that was founded by Alain Colmerauer,
who designed and implemented the first version of Prolog.

http://www.experianplc.com/news/company-news/2005/25-10-2005...
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You have a fairly specialized skillset and I'm pretty sure there are companies in need to experts that don't cost an arm and a leg. Check out some of the better freelancing sites like 37signals Job Board or AuthenticJobs (or why not an aggregator like http://joblighted.com/ ).
It breaks Github for Chrome users
You should check your FF extensions. I had a very smooth experience on a much older setup: FF19, OS X 10.7.5, Core2Duo 2.9GHz (MaxBookPro late 2008), 4GB RAM.

I found that the HTML5 version tracked my mouse cursor more smoothly then Flash.
I got a Kinesis about a year ago after developing wrist pain, and second the recommendation. It took me a full month to get back up to speed on it but now my wrist pain is gone. The keys feel nice too. My only complaint is that it makes it difficult to type one-handed while I'm eating, but I really shouldn't be eating at the computer anyway. :)

Something else I tried was putting my mouse on a slant away from the keyboard so that the radius and ulna were not as pronated. This helped, but my mouse kept sliding off the incline. Ideally I'd like something at an angle in between a standard horizontal mouse and the vertical ones like the Evoluent. It seems there are a few new models on Amazon since I looked last--may have to try one. My pain is more in the arm than the wrist, so fine wrist motion is more important than being completely vertical. At some point it may just make sense to 3D print a mouse of the appropriate shape...
I wore a three piece suit for many years.

I was coding but that was not why I got paid - I got paid because I was selling software that fixed a business problem or delivered business value

If you don't seem like a stereotyped neck beard - good! Keep your skills sharp - that's all the competent coding community really cares about. Then go sell a piece of custom code that will deliver business value . Not a website ! Bit a way for orders to get routed from the salesteam in the field to shipping and printed out within fifteen minutes instead of waiting till the evening when sales team get home.

Or a hundred other items - technical marketing is huge now, but software that drops anyone's observe/analyse/act loop is going to win.

Sell value, keep code sharp. Dress how you want.
The problem is outages tend to be for prolonged periods and not spread evenly across the month. A minute may not seem like a huge deal, but 3 consecutive hours is really going to piss some people off. If you run a business, it's completely irresponsible to provide such a low level of service to your customers.
These kind of cases make me wonder, what ever happened to the common sense.. The (classical) Roman law was probably the best system the 'makers of law' ever came up to. After that, it only went downhill.
They don't have to! What self-respecting Internet-raised hacker doesn't at least use some sort of social media? It would takes a lot of discipline to never mention your new baby on Twitter, or whatever social media they are using, regardless of whether you're a man or a woman. Unless he/she is very careful, some family information will leak out, even if it's just in the form of something like an obituary for a family member (which usually includes family information).
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What about a "chromosomal Eve"? A mutation of the magnitude you are referring to would have made reproduction impossible unless there was an Eve with the same mutation.
And cows - whales are descended from cows ancestors too!

He just threw that one off the cuff :-)
That's not what was suggested in this story, at least. She seemed to have an aptitude in math and interest in computers, so she choose a university where she could study CS.
As long as your users have the same problem as
goggles99, HTML5 will not be a technology to choose. It is more likely that they already have Flash installed, than being willing to "check their extensions".

BTW, HTML5 version runs really slow on my computer as well. FF1.9, Linux, Core2Duo 1.6GHz, 2GB RAM, while Flash one works flawlessly.
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I actually believe we all need some kind of "spiritual" element if our life, it's a basic psychological necessity. Some of us can get this in a "disguised" form from pondering deep scientific questions or working on complicated problems that actually bring the mind to its limits and provide it with some "glimpse of the beyond". But I do believe that a large percent of the populations also needs some form of "socialized spirituality", and this is what traditional religions offer.
Yes these are all reasons that software development shouldn't be carried out in the USA at all. But in the real world it is and the US is a big market so it impacts the technologies available to me. None of that makes VP8 better than H.264 though.

Back when the US authorities were trying to restrict exporting strong crypto, was the correct response to just use worse crypto, or was it to move crypto development outside the US and tell the US gov to go fuck themselves? I feel it was the latter, but I may be wrong.
I haven't used Prolog for about 10 years (and then only used it at uni) - this is my memory of it too. You could specify the rules for your problem very succinctly and naturally but the devil was in the detail. You'd spend all your time making sure the ordering and cuts were right - which at the time felt non-intuitive (though maybe now with more software experience it would be easier).

Isn't there some alternative varient where the ordering of the rules don't matter? (if that's even possible)

Edit: not to put people off - all alternative software paradigms are worth experimenting with
Some reasons why SVGs shouldn't be used all the time in webpages:

* Display time - Rendering and displaying images in a browser is incredibly time-critical. A non-trivial SVG is likely to take much longer to render and display than a PNG. My desktop still struggles to show a wikipedia map of the world - I especially don't want my phone to waste time or battery when it doesn't need to.

* SVG's are built for infinite precision. If you are browsing webpages full of small SVGs its likely you'll waste a lot of bandwidth and processing-time on sub-pixel non-displayed cruft.

* Often you actually need pixel-perfection in display, which SVG isn't really built for (hence the S) and you'll just end up drawing 1-pixel wide lines in SVG form.

tldr: Displays are based on pixels. SVGs aren't built for pixels.
upvote for good sense of humor :-)
You have very nice artwork on your both sites.
Here it is http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5342796
If we look at Webdings (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Webdings - TrueType dingbat font developed in 1997), there's actually a newspaper icon there that looks a lot like all of these:

http://i.imgur.com/uPUAttV.png
This discussion is utterly straightforward basic in CS. I am a self educated high school dropout. I am intolerant to rationalizations of willful ignorance. Take that for what you will, but clearly one of us can do something the other can't, and for me that is telling.
I have been Linode customer since sometime 2008 I think till last month, when I fully migrated to Digital Ocean to two, individually better instances for half the price than my one box at Linode.

I was running Gentoo at London DC without any issues, my major gripes with Linode was how hard was it to get additional IPv4 addresses without lying about your reasons - i.e running services on different IP addresses or separating your business/personal websites (and very easy if you lied, I know someone who did). Another thing was that I paid them by a virtual CC and always put there just enough money for transaction every month, it's dedicated for internet pay only and prevents cc fraud, but every now and then they'd get the card declined at the beginning of the month cause I didn't put the money in yet, like 2nd or 3rd day and always always there was this template threatening ticket put in by a person in my account. I was paying them every month for years, so what if I have outstanding balance on the 2nd or 3rd, is that the reason to threat deleting my stuff? That felt really alienating.

Digital Ocean, while don't hand out IP addresses at all, costs so little that it's $1 + damn good reason at Linode or $5 and a VPS on top for the IP at DO.

The support at DO is nor fast, nor technical, I had issues with my Gentoo builds basically where after reboot /dev/null would come up being a text file with junk in it, you can mknod it but it wouldn't survive reboot. I've raised a ticket and they've removed Gentoo from selection, but I doubt it's fixed and and I'll have to work some ugly hacks to work around this if it happens again.

They use a kernel loaded from below, so you won't really have latest and greatest Arch if you use that, kernel upgrades are in pkg ignore list and even if upgraded it won't load.

I might return to Linode sometime in the future if DO messes up my Gentoos again and Linode does better at matching DO's offer.

At the moment, if you don't need to scale a lot (it's not as convenient at Linode, $20 vs $5 starts to hurt as the number of boxes go up, also Linode doesn't bill you by the our) and just want a personal server for your website I'd still go with Linode, especially after increased transfer quotas.
Evolution doesn't leapfrog like that. It's a series of multiple smaller mutations over long periods of time.
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That reminds me; did you here the one about women? Terrible drivers amirite?
I know that on Round 6 they are experimenting with the Lump Sum agreement, making it easier for some startups to get 100% or 50% of the $40k in advance.

I wish they had done that with my round.

I have complained and suggested alternatives for their very slow reimbursement process. I think they are open to constructive criticism, but as any government institution change is slow.

The one thing that I kept saying to myself is that it was equity-free.
He didn't mention whether he was a Creationist or not. A large number of Christians (Catholics, for a start), don't have any real significant beefs with evolution - they think of it as a "God works in mysterious ways" type deal.
Yet this threat is unprecedented. Ending a 70-year-old truce, promising(!) a preemptive nuclear strike! These threats cannot be ignored or pacified in the same way as a gunboat firing at a fishing boat.
It really is beautiful, who did it?
Yeah, the op was lame - a picture of some sailing ship, and not the sunstone. Why do bloggers to that?

Your link also does not seem to have a picture?
Appearances matter a lot. You are judged by how you look. Welcome to the real world. It all depends on who you are dealing with and their expectations. So before you visit a customer find out about how their dress code by calling their company ahead of time and asking about it without giving awy who you are.
The main difference is that Steam's DRM, if it requires an online connection, only requires it in order to start the game up. Once you are in-game, you aren't booted from the game if you lose your connection while playing. That isn't the case when playing games like SimCity and Diablo 3.

Though, it SimCity's case it seems to be worse as I've heard people losing saves occasionally. I don't remember too many people losing characters when Diablo 3 launched.
I've noticed that a significant fraction of people who are really good at what they do (programming wise) don't look like 'typical' geeks. Just casual people. Even plenty of PhDs.

I don't think people who have reasonable experience with coders will judge you like that. If my potential boss judges me for my hair cut, choose of jacket, etc. -- oh well, there are plenty of jobs available elsewhere. It's a red flag for me.

If some one random judges that some one is not a good programmer because of their style - why should anyone give a crap about that? I don't need validation from some one random, probably you don't either :)

So just calm down, and continue writing good apps :)
I think any forcible redirection of focus makes your page inaccessible to users with screen readers. Just setting explicit tabindex on tags really screws things up; its best for accessibility to let the natural tab order rule. Many sites actually make the first tabbable element a "skip link" that jumps past the page's header and left nav content and jumps to the first <h1>.

So this topic made me curious, were does the first tab in the tab chain on Amazon go? I loaded the page in firefox, hit tab, and saw the first tab was http://amazon.com/access

Ok, this is an interesting design choice. That access link goes to a page with minimal styling, probably optimized for screen readers.

Now I'm really curious, and I pop open NVDA to give the page a listen. After the page title was read, the access link was read, which was very helpful: "A different version of this web site containing similar content optimized for screen readers and mobile devices may be found at the web address: www.amazon.com/access". It would have been best if Amazon did the work to make their default site screen reader accessible, but this is a nice alternative to having no accessibility at all.

Amazon needs to do some html/css/script minification on their homepage! Oh, nevermind, they gzipped it. :)
That was an interesting comparison.

As others have said, no sound on the HTML5 version.

There were some minor differences between the two that I found interesting. The HTML5 scrolling would occasionally stutter; however, the Flash version suffered from some slight alignment issues in the tiles.

Overall I was very impressed by the HTML5 version, the two were almost impossible to tell apart. I doubt (apart from the obvious audio issue) I would've known which was which if I hadn't been told beforehand.
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I dislike the sensationalism around NIGHTMARE SUERBUGS.

Here's a short segment from a recent BBC TV programme ('Defeating the Superbugs') showing bacteria evolving antibiotic resistance.

http://v6.tinypic.com/player.swf?file=24goih4&s=6

(YouTube's ContentID system discovers and blocks this clip.

A tray is divided into 9 sections. the end 2 sections are normal nutrient jelly. The next 2 inner sections are nutrient jelly with a normal dose of antibiotic. The next two inner sections have ten times that amount. The next two sections have 100 times the normal amount, and the final inner section has 1000 times the normal dose. (This final section has reached the solubility level of the antibiotic - they cannot dissolve any more into the jelly).

Then a drop of E.Coli is added to the end sections.

A time lapse camera shows the bacteria growing, and stopping at the barriers, and then overcoming the barriers.

After just two weeks bacteria is able to survive on the middle section; the section with 1000x the normal dose of antibiotic.
In kind of formal meetings - sure it does. You will never lose by putting on a suit. And I think that's common sense. But I believe OP means general, every day look.
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In logic, providing even one counter-example is considered refutation. Its tempting to do that with social/medical fields too. You're right its not statistically significant, but its absolutely, certainly data. An organism CAN survive extreme conditions, even thrive.

For example, claims of necessary action based on real statistical data are unwarranted. The existence of populations that thrive in the so-called 'unhealthy environment' do show there are more variables at work. Who's trumpeting "we should all work like 1800's laborers for good health!"? Nobody, but not because its not true. Because we're lazy-ass modern narcissists who want a quick fix.
>ensuring that there is no single dark pixel which is surrounded by all white pixels

You mean, like the registration and alignment markers in three of the four corners?
The analogous statement to:

'the purpose of the AMA was to promote the game, not satisfy readers' questions, so they didn't answer questions that would reflect negatively on SimCity V.'

Would be:

'the purpose of the car was to drive on the road, not to drive into the lake, so they chose not to drive into the lake.'