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I definitely see the letters getting smaller. Chrome Stable here.
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What I don't get is that if it's an acronym for "Magic the Gathering Online eXchange," then why do they write it as "Mt. Gox?" Wouldn't that translate to, "Magic the. Gathering Online eXchange?"
It's an indication to scroll to the right that masquerades as link to see more, then leaves you annoyed that it didn't work if you're actually foolish enough to try and click on a link to see more wee little people icons.
pg's point still stands. If I wanted to know that, I wouldn't screw up an existing poll but I would start one of my own for that purpose and invite folks to test it with me.
Wow. I've heard that all of these "you have to use French" rules in Quebec are a reaction to years of French-Canadians in Quebec being treated as second class to the English-Canadians. Doesn't make them any less stupid.
Surprisingly funny. :)
I wish the url changed so one could link someone.
Solved now, but it should be added.
> Do you like the news? It would be great if you would upvote it on hacker news! Keeps LaTeX in the news.

Oh, c'mon. Link it at the end, or even at the top, but with a "this post is also being discussed on Hacker News" or similar anchor. Don't blatantly pander for votes.
but assembler does need to compile
Magic the Gathering is often abbreviated to MtG.
AKA. you're breaking things because you can?
I get the impression that Google determines death based on a certain period of inactivity. What if the account holder didn't die but, for example, went to jail and ended up with their account deleted or had "data from some or all of their services" sent to people while they were still alive but AFK? The failsafe of texting a number and emailing a backup address doesn't seem sufficient.
I don't care, there is no faster way to say it. Every other way I can imagine is cumbersome.
Proof that changing your idea is OK if the circumstances are right!
Ask HN: recommendation for English correction and editing services?
Maybe it's because English is not my first language then. Still, you could have thought of IMAP-Powered condoms, that would have been funnier.
Better post the French translation of this rant soon, or suffer the consequences :)
That isn't very clear.
I think you mean "people with mechanical aptitude" because the mechanics I know work on their own cars alot less than the car enthusiasts I know. And they certainly enjoy driving the cars they put so much time into a heck of alot more than the people who bring it into a mechanic to fix everything.
O-Rings
Surely the next step for a lot of us would be to devote an afternoon to bringing public misery upon the site operators. Don't take this advice, kids.
> You really need to go at least this far.

"The framework don't care."

What I mean is, the framework doesn't know if you're building the result of 20 queries into a blog post page that pulled in related data from the post itself, the author profile, and the comments and commenter profiles, or if you're pulling in arbitrary data. So there's no reason to test a "blog". Most of us aren't building blogs. But we are interested in querying databases, calling web services, cached performance, and async process queue handling.
Hacking Google for position 1 results:

There’s an interesting hack being in Google.co.uk results for the term 'electronic cigarette' where a black hat approach has worked to fool Google into allowing a bunch of sites to dominate the results.

It's quite an interesting blackhat approach combining techniques and relying on a few oddities at Google for it to work.

1) So every few weeks Google cycles take place with filters and 'new sites' will have penalties applied (sandbox), allowing new sites to gain a bunch of links quickly then rank very fast between these cycles

2) The sites are cloaking their results serving up different results a) for Google bots, b) for people coming directly from Google, c) for anyone going directly to their site.
They are doing this because they have affiliate links which they wish to hide from Google, while the traffic coming directly from Google will see affiliate links, c) anyone going to them directly is treated suspicious so they show them a blank page saying the site is closed.
"This website is no longer available.":
http://fabelectroniccigarette.co.uk/
If you go there from a Google search you will see affiliate links
https://www.google.com/search?q=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.fabelectron...
The cache page shows Google Bot without the affiliate links
http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:IhEEuWP...
If you look at the cookies for the site you will see the refer link being captured wptt_referrer
The back links to the site are all black hat links: http://www.black-x.de/gaestebuch.php

They are running a churn and burn system with a bunch of sites
www.fabelectroniccigarette.co.uk
www.electroniccigarettegold.co.uk/
www.ecigaretteco.co.uk
www.superb-ecigarette.co.uk/
www.smoking-electronic-cigarette.co.uk/
www.electroniccigarettehealth.co.uk/
www.wickedelectroniccigarette.co.uk/
www.ecigswow.co.uk/
www.awsomeecigarettes.co.uk

Interesting
That sounds fine in theory but in reality anyone with a hacker mentality should see that the poll is obviously based on the honor system and is simply a series of options to upvote without actually attempting to ruin the results.
You're right, and it's actively encouraged by the site.
Depends on the colour of the element you deleted...
And the joke answers are likely to get picked a lot more, like under 10 or over 90. So that doesn't give us any information as to how many answers are likely fake for the others, except that we can assume it's probably a lot less.

On the other hand you can vote more than once for some reason, so some people could have just voted for every age. If you couldn't vote for more than one thing though, the obviously-untrue answers would filter out a lot of the noise.

This makes me wonder about the polls that say 18% of Americans believe the Sun goes around the Earth. Is it really that high, or are polls inaccurate plus or minus 18%?
I know, I know, the "evil" thing was a bit exaggerated. I know they are a big corp (like Microsoft, Apple, Oracle, etc) and need to make (big) money (no matter what it takes) to maintain it's infrastructure. I just don't like that and that's just my opinion.
16.

I'm disappointed to see people skewing the results. I was hoping to see the lower brackets. So much for that.
In general you shouldn't be able to associate results of such polls with users accounts. Any such data is a liability.
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Ubisoft Montreal already has ;) http://ca.ign.com/articles/2013/04/11/the-nostalgic-insanity...
At least they speak better french than french people themselves ...
EDIT : i'm french.
Although I consider the practice unethical, the other side would (does) argue: "Who cares? You are trying to get 20,000 customers and you pissed off 100 to get there."

I still can't bring myself to do it, though.
You should try Chrome or Opera mobile, they both have a fat-finger zoom when you tap ambiguously so you can confirm what you really wanted to do.
I'm surprised at the people over 90 years old, 102 seems very very suspicious.
Just changed it so you can specify user/repo in hashtag: http://starlogs.net/#rails/rails
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Google's search has changed. At one point the searches you and I perform would have returned the same results. Now, even without being logged it, we get differing results. This can be both good and bad depending on your view but it certainly has changed.
When I saw the title, I thought it would be about a mail client that was somehow insidiously stealing your passwords.

Just another data point.
Gmail exports labels as IMAP folders, so it should be fine?
In Italian, "troia" means "whore", as well as the ancient city of Troy. Italian uses "ina" or "etta" as diminuitive suffixes, rather than the Spanish "ita", but still... I don't know that I'd want to be discussing it at work.
It would be great if this worked on private repos.
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Load time is impressive
Probably, because Google has a Canadian subsidiary with offices in Montreal; they're subject to local law. If this wasn't the case they'd gladly not exclude Quebecois.
blinking.
I'll do it for him:

"Viva Quebec!"
It may sound odd but according to this

http://www.census.gov/prod/2011pubs/acs-17.pdf

more than 0.5% of the U.S. population is over 90 in 2010. In the poll it is 1.7%. Maybe it's fake, maybe tech people stay longer online...
To this day, I find myself deleting comments or whitespace under some misguided pavlovian notion that my code will run faster.

Ouch!

btw, I think "fill the screen with @'s" must be the "Hello, world!" of Commodore machine-language programming. (Back when you could call it "ML" and not get it confused with a functional programming language, too.)
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No, it needs to be assembled.
Can't stress the importance of a REPL enough. The hands-on interactivity, call and response, and introspection pushes your understanding of the language (and ability to build out astounding new ideas) so much more quickly. Also love that he highlighted Logo and Basic, which is exactly how I learned programming. The former in elementary school computer labs, the latter as a young kid on the family's 386, eager to make my own version of Nibbles.
Of course! We are starting the tests next Monday and you can expect them to be complete some time around the middle of next week.
I hope it stands out it's promisses. My Gmail account is not usable on any gnu/linux IMAP client.
The author did not realize that the "repetitive dictionary lookup" function is not a 1-to-1 mapping. There could be, for example, multiple words whose definition starts with "a type". All these words map to the same ciphertext, eventually.

The "repetitive dictionary lookup" function is very useful for validating Alice's claims of solving parts of the puzzle, but imperfect for deriving the solution from a ciphertext.
Your recent comment on Apple pulling AppGratis from the App Store - "Go and innovate on Android, what's the problem. Or make your own platform and innovate there. Or use HTML5. What makes me sad is constant whining about stuff like this." - doesn't exactly reconcile with your disputing the OPs point regarding Apple and openness or taking objection to OPs stance on guys whining about Google. That is, unless your first retort had nothing at all to do with the OPs point about openness.
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That's what OP was using, and someone else was suggesting to use a minimum font size instead. I wonder if there is a way to change the zoom level at the OS if everything is too small, not just the web browser, but that would defeat the purpose of having an hd screen.

Also does the zoom level in your browser affect the resolution of videos/images? It seems like it would.
You can launch your sever and deploy your app for free. You can keep the server alive later if you need to.

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OK, so I assume by that you also mean GPL software, because mozilla thunderbird is pretty damn good. I use it to manage 4 gmail accounts.
I saw this yesterday when I was investigating the Union Flag. It seems as though the Union Jack story, one which my dad (a now retired naval commander) has told me many times, is not a true as we're led to believe.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Union_Jack#Why_not_Union_J...
I didn't? Or perhaps you didn't read my blog post where at the end I say...

"PS In reality, Alice's one way function is not 'bijective'. That means that some starting words will end up at the same word. For example, when FOLIO, PIECE and WORLD are passed through Alice's one way function they all end up at THINGS. In a follow up post I'll take about this and its implications."
Though his age group would still be under-represented, since he would be older than he is now.
Very cool. It would be nice if the colours varied slightly so you had some reference point when scrolling. At the moment I scroll down and the page looks static.
What's the advantage over thunderbird besides being written in Qt.
Are you aware of the different way to input your search they (ddg) use? They prioritize your search based on the order you input words. After realizing that, I can find almost everything from there. And if not you can use their !bang syntax to continue the same search in whatever other search engine you like. Google won't link me to a bing search. But ddg will. If I search "search engine best rated" and do not see results I am looking for I just ad "!g" or "!b" to it and it takes you right into the results of that search for google or bing. How is that not more effective?
A very enjoyable explanation. That was a little outside the scope of what I was trying to explain, but would make a good follow up. I'll post a link to your comment.
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or anywhere that the contest is prohibited by law.

That's probably why.
Over 90, 102!!
It's open-source, man.

Which also means there are some informal rules to follow, such as listening to the wishes and requests of those who ultimately maintain the repos.
I don't understand how this is relevant to the article.
There is a really great Scott Hanselman podcast where he invited Jon Skeet on to chat at CodeMash. Fascinating insight into how the guy ticks: http://www.hanselminutes.com/302/being-a-phony-with-jon-skee...
Hate the F word in the title, that word is for your mouth, not for writing on the public network so all can see(including my kids), unless, you have a 18-year-old warning on your homepage.
The vast gap between talkers and doers.... In this article, in the end they contacted 1700 people only 1-10 were interested. That sounds more like the four standard deviation crazies who just want to be polite.
You can learn a lot from this.

Firstly you can learn how other people describe the type of product you are offering - not necessarily how you describe it. With Adwords you'll see the types of keywords that people are typing to have your adverts displayed, some of these keyword phrases may include words you haven't considered. You then add these new words to your list and see the results. Rinse and repeat.

Now people are coming to your site you can track what they do. What price point has the most clicks, what wording bounces the least, etc.

I have done exactly what erikpukinskis described and it serves to not only validate (or not) your idea, but the great thing about this is I learned far more what real people are actually wanting, not what I thought they wanted.

A couple of weeks investing in a quick wordpress site and some adwords to validate and modify an idea before building is so much better then building it then seeing if they will come.
"we've seen the issues on places like Amazon with ratings spamming"

My experience with Amazon ratings is that they've been accurate and useful. If there's a spam problem Amazon is dealing with it well, without requiring "real names" or social connections.
I'm highly interested in doing the same, can you recommend any resources that describe the process of setting up a self-hosted mail server?
What are the best ways currently you read HN?
Here are some of the stuff I use.
- HackerWeb http://cheeaun.github.io/hackerweb/
- Hacker Monthly.

I am open to suggestions. Thanks
Brings to mind Greg Egan's short story "Crystal Nights", in which a tech billionaire works out that the best way to create a singularity-type AI is to evolve one rather than try to design one. He sets up a virtual world inside a (conveniently powerful) supercomputer, starts with very basic organisms, and then manipulates the environment to encourage evolution in the directions he wants. Things don't quite go as expected. Well worth reading.
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No, they want documentation because humans are mortal and selfish. Whether you leave the company by your own free will or in a body bag someone has to pick up the pieces and resume where you left off. Documentation means I can take a vacation and know things at the office will be fine.

If this also means I'm replaceable, so be it.
Hacking the Oculus Rift for better immersion
The simple addition of a microcontroller sampling the colors at the edge of the screen and reproducing them using RGB LEDs (just like an ambilight), can improve the immersion of the Oculus Rift. Super easy, super quick, fairly effective.
You do realize that Apple's Open Source site has been around prior to "all their surveillance, their walled gardens?" Or are you trying to claim that Apple was creating PR for the eventual iPhone fallout back in 2001/2002?
Sound like cool event!
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I don't see how it's infinite? Does anyone know?
The key word here is "default."
Absolute pitches are the concern of the performer. Correct. Also consider that the performer is the one who is looking at the sheet music, and not the listener.
Awesome. I'm a sucker for a good visualization. What about adding a fixed nav to toggle the image size... sort of a zoom in/out effect?
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If that font change comes with a proportional increase in the size of the voting arrows our younger brethren will be kicking themselves for their honest answer.

On a serious note, I'm surprised to see you offering this specific post as a bellwether - by my memory we've seen basically identical versions of this at least a half a dozen times with similar results. It doesn't seem like there's a big gap between something like this and a "what's your favorite snack chip brand" to me.

I really do appreciate the quality you've maintained by having an opinionated moderation system, but between this and a few other recent comments like "we're keeping track of the people who vote up these dumb comments and considering retroactive punishments [to the voters]" it's really kicked the open contempt for your users vibe up a good notch as compared to a year or two ago.

That said, you can't argue with the results. The active story position penalties especially are spot on 9 times out of 10 and really improve things.
That is not of Unicode's concern. Markup is reserved for higher-level things and is not done within Unicode.

Well, I’m not sure what authority you’d cite for your statements about what is or is not Unicode’s concern, but right on page 3 in chapter 1 we have:

“The Unicode Standard began with a simple goal: to unify the many hundreds of conflicting ways to encode characters, replacing them with a single, universal standard. [...] Whenever textual data was converted between different programs or platforms, there was a substantial risk of corruption.”

That sounds familiar, given the various contexts I mentioned before. I wonder whether the cost of all the software bugs ever caused by getting quoting/escaping wrong is greater than other repeat offenders like dereferencing nulls.

Then on page 8 in chapter 2 there are several explicit text processes mentioned, including user interaction and treating text as bulk data.

I do understand that a basic principle of Unicode is to represent plain text rather than mark-up, but it seems to me that avoiding problems with representing widely used text strings in different ways using different quoting and escaping conventions is consistent with that principle and exactly the kind of lack of standardisation that Unicode should help with.

There are already more than 60 control characters in Unicode. There are also many characters that aren’t described as control characters but which convey things like layout information or rendering hints, such as the non-breaking space, soft hyphen, and direction controls. I know that language tags are deprecated, but those are rather complicated and context-specific and, as the standard itself observes, supporting them is a significant burden on implementers, so I don’t think it is reasonable to equate that situation with what I suggested.

On balance, as a practical matter, if you're working in a text-only medium, your character set is all you have. If anything else must be done using some form of mark-up built with the same character set, then a simple, unambiguous, standardised way to switch from one to the other seems entirely consistent with the general goals of the Unicode project.

Links to relevant sources:

http://www.unicode.org/versions/Unicode6.2.0/ch01.pdf

http://www.unicode.org/versions/Unicode6.2.0/ch02.pdf
Translating assembly to machine code is a trivial compilation, but technically it is still compiling.

Compiling is just translating source code in one language into code in another.
I can imagine there are many, in day-to-day use I find Thunderbird to be one of the worst e-mail clients I've ever used. Slow, unstable, makes simple things hard (try to configure an LDAP address book) and many basic features simply don't work (IMAP search for example).
> And how is Apple waging war against openness?

Lawsuits against competitors kicking their ass using open platforms? That and making their every single a move a walled garden you have to use with no other options.

I see you mention WebKit as an open alibi, but that's a poor example. It was forked from an open project and thus they were forced to leave it open. These days though it's not even being maintained in a way which suits the definition of open in any useful way.

Holding the key to the source and at the same time having a committing policy which says its "OK" to break it on all platforms not yours with others needing your permission to fix things doesn't really paint a nice picture of you as a advocate of openness.