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Google Launches Content Recommendation Engine For Mobile Sites
why is a computer bought specifically outside of a contract obeying these directives

Because your data plan exists under a contract with your carrier. Because most users would be angry if their carrier suddenly terminated their connection or layered on additional tethered data costs because of detected second-device traffic (both of which have happened).

The Nexus devices are targeted at everyperson. Not just hackers and rogues.

No-tethering flags exist because wireless resources are actually a finite resource, and because carriers desperately rely upon certain usage models which is basically that you overbuy and underuse, which tethering tends to significantly offset. Should they? Probably not. But if you want tethering, talk to your carrier.
Ever work in a room full of hardware/firmware engineers?

One whiff of that smell and everyone's heads instantly pop up like gophers. "Who's on fire?" It becomes instinct.
What about elliptic curves-based asymmetric cryptography?
Very cool, but the site examples broke on my Android 2.3.5 browser - " Cannot set property 'overflow' of null"
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Most helicopters can autogyro - that means they can land without working engine, using air flow to speed up the rotor, and then using the rotor to slow down the fall to relatively gentle landing. More or less like the seeds of some trees fly.

Same goes for gyrocopters, which are sth in between regular plane and helicopter (they have powered propeler to gain horizontal speed, and unpowered rotor that is speed up by autogyro effect that replaces the need for wings).

Of course in dense 3d traffic you may collide with sth before you can slow down the fall, so there will be a need for some system that sygnalizes everybody below you to quickly get out of way.
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No mention of chromebooks? I bet there are some exciting announcements there too
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How does it compare with Q.js ?
Is this because of the drug, or because of cultural values about that drug? In the latter case, i could rephrase it the other way around.

Some people thoroughly enjoy their drugs, bringing them great satisfaction. And it is certainly true they had to give up on those drugs because of the usage of illicit invasive labour practises.

There is this assumption, mostly in the states, that one should sacrifice almost anything to be as productive as possible. I disagree strongly.

Im proud to say im about 60% as productive as i could be. The other 40% of my energy is poured into other things that matter to me. Like family, friends, free time, being allowed to be myself, and just enjoying life in general. I could sacrifice many of these things to be more produtive. But i am not a slave. And the notion of limiting the freedom of people, because as a society we decided their output volume should be higher, is at the very least unhealty, and perhaps even a tad fascist.
> Linking every Sovereign Citizens group to the Tea Party movement is just a smear.

FTFY
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You seem to have things backwards.

It is despicable to kill children.

It is not despicable to point out that they are dead.
This argument makes absolutely no sense. The 'political point' here is that children are being killed. If you can't use the dead bodies of children to illustrate this, then what can you use? Digitial manipulation is irrelevant to the fact that this was a real funeral with real dead children.
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>That attracts sociopaths into the upper reaches of "our" industry (no longer ours in any real way) who come in (always as boss-level implants) because they hear it's full of easy pickings and who stay because it turns out to be true.

First time I've heard it articulated this way. It rings true to me and would explain an awful lot.
How did you first become exposed to Oxycodone?

What finally enabled you to get clean 9 months ago?

Do you feel there is a solution to prevent others from becoming addicted to opiates?
>> "First, the world isn't running on Linux."

A significant portion of it is now. Maybe not desktop linux with gnome/kde/xfce/whatever, but it is in a lot of places. It's on a lot of home networking gear (NAS, routers etc), it runs a lot of the server room and has even found a home on mainframes. It's also in supercomputers and in a lot of consumer electronics these days (Android phones, kindle touch and I assume paperwhite).

I too have worked in embedded software recently and can tell you that some of the newer credit card processing terminals run a fairly standard linux-on-arm with framebuffer display setup.

It may be a niche desktop OS at present, but it does a hell of a lot behind the scenes, webservers are no where near the extent of it.

--edit--
I wouldn't be surprised if you were right on the arguments, as they are often quite ideological in nature.

--edit2-- Smart TVs! Love 'em or hate 'em, Samsung Smart Tvs run Linux too...

--edit3-- Also the most popular laptop on amazon US, and third most popular on amazon.co.uk. Sure it's a chromebook, but that's just a cut down, restricted linux too.

--edit4--You mention cars, Jaguar Landrover, Nissan and Toyota have recently kicked off "Automotive Grade Linux"
(I swear I'll stop editing in a minute but boring day is boring...)
I'd prefer to see the functions put in a dictionary and invoked from there rather than named individually in the local scope, easier to see at least what you have to look for when you want to see if they're referenced, and you'd have dict[item] rather than "dict" + item.

Edit: taf2's seems more idiomatic, js is not my first language.
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Yep, I was just elaborating a bit.

You're right that licensing requirements go up with size and complexity, but it's a bit beyond that as well. For example, carrying people in exchange for money has stricter licensing than carrying people for fun, because the idea is that 1) you'll do it more often and 2) people paying you for services are less aware of the risk they're taking.
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The Left 4 Dead has an AI Director, which seems to match Spector's "virtual dungeon master".

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5600544
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A different point is that we are so numb to images of dead children that those photos need to be manipulated so we take attention.

That's pretty chilling.
"Not safe for [my] mind or [my] work. It is horrifying [to my particular sensibilities]."

Fixed. Not every reader of HN shares your specific sensitivities.
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Yes. Nobody bothered to review the situation ever.
Love this. I have felt at times that I am simply a mine from which some smart business guy with some capital leverage can delve and extract value. This kind of relationship is becoming more and more frustrating over time.

I feel like we sold our birthright.
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It seems you could easily get a nosql postgres if you limit yourself to one table with two columns (id, json). Snark apart, it would work quite ok, no?
Looks like a possible bug with Google Charts http://stackoverflow.com/questions/15195808/cannot-set-prope...
Amazon launches virtual currency Coins
"There are several reasons why launching such a new exchange medium may be to Amazon's advantage. At the very least, it poses a new, more centralized challenge to the popular virtual currency du jour, Bitcoin."
This article has people talking about Glass as if it projects video into any other part of your vision than a little rectangle in the upper corner of one eye. It's not a good augmented reality setup and it's definitely not a virtual reality rig like the Oculus Rift.
You might be interested to learn that cats can also perceive this illusion: http://geekologie.com/2013/03/cat-can-see-spinning-optical-i...
Why should you ever be able to undo someone else's flag?
>However, we live in an imperfect world and the career disruptions that can ensue from a devotion to TCH reduce people's quality of life in no uncertain terms.

THC does not, in the majority of cases, reduce somebody's quality of life. Mandatory drug tests on the other hand...
?

I know you've had criticism for being young. I won't go
there other than to say that there are a lot of
indoctrinated young idealists in the HN audience. In
some cultures they come out of school indoctrinated and
fail to understand the world and their environment until
perhaps decades later.

So this is not calling him indoctrinated?

I suppose it technically isn't, actually. I find that position pedantic though.

When you see a headline titled "Is Obama trying to destroy America?" you know exactly what their position is. They just can't swap the "Is" and "Obama" words, because it's slander at that point.

None of this is to be commended.
HStore [1] is NoSQL plugin for Postgres. Works great. Been available for a long time too.

[1] http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.0/static/hstore.html
Are we pretending that there aren't filters that could depend on both halves of the join?
I'd imagine that such type/units system would be most useful in interactive use, like in WolframAlpha where the system has quite good "understanding" of units and how they should be applied to formulas.
for a more in depth list of changes / new features look at release note[1] and the wiki 9.3Beta1 page[2]

[1] http://www.postgresql.org/docs/devel/static/release-9-3.html

[2] http://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/What%27s_new_in_PostgreSQL_9...
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>and now you have an extra object sitting in memory for the lifetime of your application

Worrying about that would be the epitome of premature optimization.
I was not the one that brought "done" to the discussion, it was Olav and others. That was pretty off-topic, he should have banned himself.

Speculation on the other hand is very relevant to the topic. If you accept you arrived at a conclusion through speculation, it opens the possibility that the conclusion might be wrong, and needed to be re-evaluated.
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Hi, Bill here, owner of sunhelp.org. My own site is the last thing I expected to see on HN this morning. :)
Yes it is just you. :) The original becomes horrible when the number of cases grows, when you want a default and can introduce subtle bugs if you forget a break. In the second example, there is a clean separation between processing commands and dispatching on the input. For example, you might want to extend processUserInput with "invalid command" handling, commands with arguments or even add commandTable as an argument to it so that you can reuse it for all your dispatching needs.

And to top it of, you can dynamically add new commands to the dispatch table which you can't to a switch.
Bloomberg's main competitors are Thompson Reuters and News Corporation, both of whom are substantially larger in revenues and market cap than Bloomberg (although you could argue News Corps financial arm is smaller). So it seems unlikely they'd be considered for an anti-trust case.
Don't drop the whole series based on a few bad experiences.

I have been using a Galaxy Nexus since they came out, and a Nexus 7 for almost a year (both currently at 4.2.2 via normal OTA updates). Neither has had any of the problems described.

Lemons happen. Also, these are complex machines that run complex software; malware happens too, as does innocently-perpetrated excessive resource consumption by background processes created by third-party developers that either aren't careful enough or simply missed something complex.

There's a lot of reasons things like this can happen. By many accounts the Nexus 4 does actually have serious issues in a lot of ways... of course, there are also many people that have and love this phone, too.

Don't judge the entire line based on a few complaints.
Commander Hadfield is an inspiration. I wish him a safe trip home.
Right. While not impossible (it's possible for almost anyone, no?), this type of blackmail is probably extremely uncommon.

In the real world, it's so much more likely to be "he's a cool guy, we went to the same prep school, why not?" Which renders the same result, but in less of a movie-script dramatic way.
The BPI was apparently constructed to track CPI - there is no chance it would track as closely as it does otherwise. But I can't find any documentation about how its weighting is set or updated - can you point me to such documentation?

Lets ignore subtle semantics, shall we? Definitions of inflation differ - some restrict it to discussions of money supply (in which case, CPI is not inflation), and some to cost of living (in which case, CPI is a measure of inflation, but not necessarily a good or unbiased one)
Or just scrap the whole tax thing. We were building roads and services before taxes.

Every justification for taxation not only has evidence that there is no correlation between tax revenues and resolved problems, but that we are more than capable of solving these problems ourselves through voluntary collaboration, rather than coercive.
Absolutely agree. I think what I was trying to say, and didn't do a good job of it is this, why is it surprising that this kind of data leak exists at Bloomberg? It seems that most of the news reporting is trying to spin this into a mega-scandal, but the financial world is kind of "meh" about the whole thing...at least publicly.

I think it's because they've already accepted the fact that all of their trading data is moving through those terminals and have that reality figured into their mental model of how their business operates. I don't think it's figured into their risk models however.
I'm bringing it because I saw another guy that was also banned for wrong reasons. I think it's relevant now.
The first picture I clicked into (http://www.sunhelp.org/unixworld/coherent.jpg) is an ad for Coherent Unix, which was a commercial Unix clone sold in the '80s and '90s, by Mark Williams Company in Northbrook, IL.

I look them up to see what they're up to and, of course, they are no longer in operation. Interestingly enough, it was owned by a man named Robert Swartz, who just happened to be the father of one Aaron Swartz. What coincidence.

(Wikipedia page here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Williams_Company)
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> This is supposed to be a profesionally run project, not scriptkiddies in dome irc chatroom acting tough.

You're suggesting how I should behave, while calling me a scriptkiddie? Wtf? The rest of your post is much of the same.
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Since the introduction of navigation systems a lot of people have absolutely no clue of where they are. They also don't remember the route they took because there is no need to remember.

With the proposed app you don't need to remember a face. Could it be that in the future a lot of people just don't remember you because they can always look you up?

I can understand some fun of this gadget but I don't understand why people think this is "to enhance the world around us". In my mind these gadgets are anti-social. They are there to "share" but forget that "listen to" is as equal important.

There have never been so much lonely people in this age of "social".

Disclaimer: I love what you can do with a computer/device but I don't own a nav system, smartphone or whatever.
Sorry, haven't seen this and the older developer announcements.
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5698681
The same way. KDE components are very modular, so it's trivial to write a UI form that displays a bunch of components from various parts of your code. You could write a second executable that just displays this test form with test data (most of your code should be written as a library anyway, so having two executables that call your components shouldn't be an issue).

Of course more automation is better, so I'd probably want to write a selenium-equivalent for asserting things about a component tree. Again, the KDE components are very regular so it's easy to generically traverse/inspect a GUI.

It's really not hard if you actually try.
Re bio's Founders at Work was a pretty interesting read. A non-bio, but must read for dealing with other people in general is 48 laws of power, its historically entertaining, and pertinent.
I have invited people to conferences before. They never show up. I behave the same in real life as on Internet.

I'll say it again: Go to FOSDEM, go to the GNOME stand. I'll be near the stand most of the afternoon.

Pretty nice to judge people over the Internet, as said, try talking to me in real life, making a real judgement.
The dispatch table is shorter than the switch, so there is a lot less noise. The invocation is a little clever, but overall I would consider them about equally complex. Maybe you meant unconventional?

The performance is substantially different. The dispatch table is ~75% slower (in chrome). http://jsperf.com/switchvsdispatchtable

One thing I really like about dispatch tables is that it forces the developer to only be able to handle the decision logic. The number of times I've had to cleanup a switch with 20-30 lines under each condition (sometimes including another switch) is too many to count.
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What you need to do is come to New York, meet some very rich people, learn how they think and operate, and observe what they do to keep and grow their levels of power. It's not as hard as it sounds. It is expensive, but it's not difficult.

There are apartments selling for $100 million. Who lives in those? How did they get there? What are their stories? The answers are not what middle-class Americans think (hard work! pure luck!) but you don't exactly have to become one of them (almost impossible) to learn how they do things. They don't even bother to hide it anymore.

After about 5 years, you'll realize that most of the "effortless" rises are cases of people who learn something damning about a powerful person and leverage it into all kinds of social currencies.

Stupid extortion: "Give me $10 million or I'll reveal <X>." That's far too direct and really dumb. You go to jail for that.

Smarter (if still evil) extortion: "Hi. You may not remember me but I was with you on January 24, 2007 in New York when <X>. Those were fun times, no? I heard that a lot of venture capitalists attend your winter party in Aspen. I'd like to attend, because I'm looking to start my own company." That's how 90+ percent of the most successful people got where they are.
It took a decade to have some html draft, and this one goes through with a breeze, makes you think...
I've got images of Coherent install media and a PDF of the (really awesome) manual. It was a great "UNIX" for people who couldn't afford a real AT&T distribution, before Linux came on the scene.
Since none of the US media outlets seem to mention it, I'm wondering if most people know that Hadfield is a Canadian.
You are totally right that it is incredibly hard to evaluate skills during a small in person interview. Interviews are about 40% evaluation of skill set and 60% culture fit. A lot of research show that a bad personality fit in a culture does more to damage output of a group than having a single stellar employee. By the time someone interviews you generally can get a sense for their skill set before they interview via their resume and then asking them to submit either previous work samples or by creating a skills assessment test. Other than that... it is really hard to evaluate people's inner skill set, work ethic etc.
I agree. In fact, a warning saying "don't continue this tone or I'll ban you" would have been more than enough. About the tone, I don't think there was any way I could have conveyed my message that their conclusions were wrong in a way they would like.

If somebody really cared, they could have tried to say the same thing I did, in different words, but the bug is still open. They are never going to change their minds.
The problem with finding this sort of data is that it is self unselecting; i.e. it suffers from survivour bias. So you would need to asses base level corruption in organisations over their histories collectively and severally. Look for the quiet spots and compare the relative successfulness of under capitalised students, i.e. do students from poorer backgrounds do better during years where there is less scandal? You might also want to compare to low level scandal to form a relative comparison; how many research papers are non reproducible, had to be withdrawn, etc. Then you need to figure if there is a causal link; this is left as an exercise for the reader.
Also, there is still a switch needed in the MovePlayer function.

So all that extra code only serves to eliminate 2 options from the original switch.

I do like the approach in some cases, I just think that the example given probably wasn't the best choice.
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elephant in the corner: app store exposure and the lack thereof for web based apps.
I don't know if it was anyone's fault really. They were a services company whose business model only made sense in the halcyon days of dotcom 1.0.

Maybe they could have used that as a launching pad for something that would have survived the trough, or maybe they could have been acquired at the perfect time a la Mark Cuban and our gracious host, but the fact that they didn't doesn't much point to any fatal failures of judgment. A lot of people got swept up in the bubble and subsequent crash (just as a lot of people are getting swept up in dotcom 2.0 and will cry bitter tears when it too crashes.)
Yeah great point, I'm sure that's what they will start doing. Luckily the company is small enough that it's feasible to check against all employee phone numbers.
While not impossible (it's possible for almost anyone, no?), this type of blackmail is probably extremely uncommon.

Wrong. It's extremely common, but it's also subtle.

It's best if the target doesn't know what you have on him. That's the beauty of business school. You were out drinking with him 25 times and he doesn't remember half of them, so you don't have to mention "the dirt". (Also: you shouldn't. Explicit extortion will put you in jail.) He has no memory of what specific episodes you have on him, and there might not even be any. He just knows that if you say, "introduce me to <Y>" or "invite me to your winter party" that he has no choice.
I think a lot of these groups also display the One True trademark of the tech side of "technology leadership": reinventing the wheel.

Technology people want to help an issue, like immigration reform, and instead of saying, "Who are the best people working on this issue, that I can support with money and time and media?", they say, "This is not fixed, therefore everyone working on it is worthless, and I will start from scratch and show them how it's done.".

If tech giants can do for immigration reform what they've done for education, I am quite confident that in ten years all borders will be closed and all first generation Americans forcibly exiled.
I meant Christian Perch, the other story about GNOME Bugzilla. I'm not a developer. I didn't go after Felipe.
"lots of ad-hoc columns added by multiple people"

Inevitably completely un-normalized and junk data. Even worse with no documentation or procedure anything ever added becomes permanent legacy that can never be removed. Been there, lived it, hated it, won't allow it to happen again.
I don't really care, it's their loss. I'm just bringing this up because of the other post about the other ban.