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> How can they be held accountable for every single thing said by their users?!

That could stand if they didn't try to police their users at all, but they do, significantly, on a number of areas: facebook has banned or censored groups and images on such sujects as breastfeeding, breast cancer or children with birth defects[0]. Yet, and there's the rub, rape and violence groups were allowed to run unimpeded and reports were generally ignored when they didn't lead to the complainer being blocked.

[0] http://www.elephantjournal.com/2012/11/does-facebook-hate-al...
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Hi! This is the author. I was pretty sure that someone would point this out and I completely agree.

But, even Programming has to be taught. Among the many ways to learn programming, I think the best approach is to demonstrate how a good progammer programs and explain the thought process.
I am just guessing here.. but it is much harder to manage because it would be a nightmare to distribute food for every single meal, every single day to all those who need it. Medical care is different. Most people don't have to walk into a hospital three times a day to get their daily care (hopefully)
Debatable. It would be better to say the most respected newspaper in the USA. The US has a tendency to refer to their best as the best in the world. I found it really interesting when I was watching "How I met your mother" how often they would refer to NY as "The greatest city in the greatest country in the world".
> I don't understand why Facebook needs to block content.

It may not need to, but it decided to do so years ago. And when breastfeeding or breast cancer groups get blocked or partially censored, it's hard to understand why rape apology groups are allowed to remain.
So a vanilla version of bangwithfriends?
What happens every time this is proposed is that the largest networks never join, since the last thing they want is to hand their best competitive advantage over to the competition. And then the project dies.
Even for long documents with structure, gamefaqs has shown us that plain text can be used effectively there as well.
> If it doesn't seem so fertile any longer, that's almost entirely due to human activity.

Bullshit. The area was never fertile in the way it's understood by people used to temperate climates. There were never (during the course of human history) lush green forests covering everything.

The fertile areas were (and continue to be) only along rivers (Euphrat, Tigris, Jordan, Nile) and greatly extended through irrigation (i.e. human activity).
Bullies pick on folks who don't really fit in i.e who other people in a group won't stand up for, and who don't hit back. It really isn't more complicated than that. Thinking it is is giving bullies waaaay too much credit.
'Dark Souls' and 'Demon Souls' do this extremely well I feel.

Team Ico games come close too.
I would agree that the best way to learn programming is to program, not just following along, but find a real problem and try to solve it, but then again, I know a lot of people who kept getting stuck because of the fear of "doing it wrong". So, yeah, watching other people do it has its merits as well.
The same formatting any other large organization which creates a variety of documents might need.

Things like tax forms, license applications, instruction manuals, reports, plans, ...

Nobody wants to read or maintain ugly plaintext files. We don't even use plaintext in technical documentation, we use various markup languages, even if it's just ReST or Markdown.
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Thinkpad T430s: Standard PS/2 Keyboard.

At least the device manager in Windows says so.
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That's great for those who can afford it. Not so great when it means you skimp on doctors visits until things get serious because the choice is going to the doctor or going hungry or being unable to pay rent. And not so great for society when we get to pick up the tab anyway when people delay going to the doctor and get so seriously ill they need emergency care, because we'd rather not have people dying in the streets.

There's a reason pretty much no developed nations have opted to be without universal healthcare.
90% of species that ever lived on Earth are gone without any help from humans.
You are right about the arbitrary government and red tape. I think you are wrong about "virtually no access to EU markets", but I will not argue it here. You are wrong about "lack of workers skilled in post-1950s technology", and completely wrong about the implication that there could be a shortage of suitably skilled labour to run the factories.

In the former Soviet union, Belarus had a very significant and comparatively modern industrial sector, producing vehicles, consumer electronics, machinery etc. Minsk in particular is heavily industrialised, and according to the Wikipedia entry:

After the last war the development of the city was linked to the development of industry, especially of R&D-intensive sectors (heavy emphasis of R&D intensive industries in urban development in the USSR is known in Western geography as 'Minsk phenomenon').

So I suspect if there is a recent history of "R&D intensive industries", finding workers to man even advanced factories should not be an issue.
One of my favourite clips: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NL8HP1WzbDk
Alas, the point is very hard to get across.
Why do you think it's a bogus story?
> I can only assume that the legal downside to not having a CLA signed for every single-line commit is enormous. Are there previous court cases in the US where not having a CLA got someone destroyed?

I don't know of any court cases, but I do know of several projects that were not able to change their license because they didn't have a CLA and couldn't contact all previous contributors. Thats the right that section 1 of the nodejs CLA gives them.

Fun fact: nodejs reserves the right to use your contribution under "(b) binary, proprietary, or commercial licenses".
I once heard it cruelly expressed as "If you look like food, you're going to get eaten."

No-one should be bullied, but if sometimes geeks could rein in their Fotherington-Thomas [1] aspects for their own good, they might have an easier time.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fotherington-Thomas
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Most likely because the users runs a high number of workers or mongoses.
You only lose it if you leave voluntarily, so no.
As designer who's learning to code, I find Ruby code more easy to learn and read. Other programs are too, let's say, cryptic syntax. And for the projects I am working for I don't need to work with another programming language.

If you let me chose, I would go all the way with Erlang or Go, but it's hard to learn for a non-coder.
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Not to mention Org Mode... but there's about a zero chance of emacs being picked up as 'standard'.
Government archiving rules often mandate use of digital signing. In the US, NARA has rules about what count as "trustworthy records" along these lines.

E.g., see http://www.epa.gov/records1/faqs/rks.htm

OOXML, PDF, and ODF each have a standard "container" and key management model that makes this a whole lot easier than plain text.
I already am going for drafting, which includes Autocad and Solidworks. I already am decent at general 3d design (and still have plenty of classes to go).

Still, because I'm past the 6 month employability gap, NOBODY will touch me.

http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2013/04/the-terr...

http://www.forbes.com/sites/timworstall/2013/04/16/after-six...
Locked down ARM systems have far longer history than this fairly recent Win8 debacle. One of the most notable examples is TiVo, which led to the phrase "tivoization". I'd argue that the number of "open" ARM devices is what is growing with RasPi and others like it.
You're right. For ordinary people around me malaria is not a problem. And yes, here people die in road accidents and should it happen that one side of the accident is a local government/enforcement member friend or relative means that they'd escape justice. And this is the problem. And problems must be solved from largest to smallest, as the cut tree is worked by the big axe first and by the tiny needle last.
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Ask HN: I'm not in USA. Can I still apply at Facebook/Google/Twitter?
I'm willing to relocate. But my question is, can I still apply at those companies or other related companies if I'm not living in the USA? If yes, does it lessen my chance to be accepted?

I'm in South East Asia by the way. I also have a tourist visa.
Are people not using this argument for food? Almost every developed country have substantial social welfare programs to ensure that everyone can get access to food and housing.
I did http://www.tractis.com. You have both high end digital signature with certificates and one-click signature.
Hence the "something like" presumably. The key point is universal access regardless of personal wealth or income.
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I wasn't talking about phishing, and you must be misunderstanding the protocol that I described. It's safe from malware that highjacks the browser.
No, the guy in the article was wrong - it's been possible to do in PRMan since at least 2000, but it was very slow (they didn't have any decent acceleration structures for the ray intersection), so it generally wasn't used that much. But it was possible.

For PRMan 13 (which Pixar used for Cars in 2006), they added semi-decent acceleration structures which sped up raytracing a bit. But you still had to use custom shaders to cast rays.

With PRMan 17, ray tracing is now a first-class citizen in PRMan, and it can also trace rays from the camera instead of doing the traditional (pre 17) REYES rasterization of the surface and then shading that surface for reflection based on ray tracing.
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Because if they don't they will lose some advertising contracts. Facebook's reason to exist is to try and turn a profit, not to exist as a place for people to post without censorship.

I imagine someone realized that people who would leave if sexual assault 'humor' was banned make them less than the advertisers who would leave were the jokes not banned.
As for the Nokia patents I don't think that they would have been brought to courts if Nokia didn't think victory was a realistic outcome.

It wouldn't be the first time Microsoft used another company's losing case (SCO) to fight a proxy battle.
We need more concentration camps where huge amount of population live in close proximity and essentially they just deplete resources by doing nothing in value.

Earth will cope, always, with whatever state we will bring her to. Humans, not so.
I dream about something like SailsJS[1] written on Openresty. Only if I had some more time...

[1]: http://sailsjs.org/
Just to follow up on point #3, one of the opposition parties in Singapore has raised some concerns over the policy:

https://www.facebook.com/nicoleseahnsp/posts/494238060647270
Suggesting that people's behaviours are shaped by society's class structure is not giving them credit. The author wasn't claiming that the bullies were making a rational decision to beat him up based on the class difference.
I'm wondering if it could have something to do with the level of encryption enabled by ODF documents? It's no secret the Australian Gov't has come under sustained hack attacks of late, so maybe this was the catalyst?
This is neat! My favorite feature is the typewrite sound effect as I type.
It's super-efficient for those who have money. For everyone else it's a barrier to access.
Just use zsh with oh-my-zsh (https://github.com/robbyrussell/oh-my-zsh). Done.
I actually wonder if Google, Amazon etc have enough idling servers to suddenly handle rendering a 90 minute movie (at approx. 11.5 hours / frame, if not more with these new lighting technologies).
Because everyone uses one page MVCs?
There are lots of peer reviewed papers that come to a completely different conclusion than this article (for example, that social skills and verbal skills are critical).

I recommend reading those instead of this article, which seems based on speculation.
I have no idea if it is possible to use Minizinc models with CP Optimizer, but I would guess not. It doesn't feel like a feature that would be of business interest to IBM to develop.

As for Håkans pages, http://www.hakank.org/common_cp_models/#xkcd has a list of 21 implementations of the xkcd problem.
It took me time but I understood why the suggested race condition with two or more clients can't happen. But this require that pending information is not "overwritten" and preserved until becoming good. The x=10 is then never overwritten by the x=20 and the meta data allows to distinguish the two possible value of x. If a third client gets a good x=10, it will get the y value with the same meta data and which is 10, not 20 or 0.

The only problem that bogs me a bit in this algorithm is that transaction time sequence is not guarantied and preserved. Some clients may see x=y=10 and others x=y=20 during the transaction period. This happen if one client starts writing x=y=10 with s1 and the other y=x=20 with s2. Clients requesting x and y starting with s1 will get x=y=10 and those requesting x and y starting with s2 will get x=y=20. When the transactions completes, the values finally stored in x and y as good may be 10 or 20.

So the algorithm ensures consistency, which is the most important and useful property, but with many concurrent write transactions, the ending DB content may be a bit somehow unpredictable.

This can be a problem when one needs to do operations like x-=1 and y-=1 on the database as for seats reservation in a plane for a travel with two flights for instance. How would this be done ?
This is both great news and sad one. The great news is the doctor is doing the right thing by moving towards a direct pay model - which works great for regular visits. But this also goes to show the SAD state of health affairs.

I believe we can also a lot of this problem with the aid of technology and make doctors more efficient and help them only worry about their patients. Well you can't eliminate the need of insurance but it can certainly be made much much more easier.

A lot of Family Practitioners don't want to deal with insurance companies is not because they don't get paid well by them (yes they pay only a fraction of the bill) but because the paperwork and stress of dealing with them isn't worth it.

Now with the upcoming ICD-10 implementation the docs are going to have a nightmare. ICD-9 has around 18k codes for the classification of various disease and with the implementation of ICD-10 this number goes to 80,000 !!!!

The bigger problem is that most solutions (EHRs) are usually created not created by people who deliver healthcare. There are a few EHRs created by doctors but are not implemented very well.

Using things like Eligible api (to know what procedures can be performed as per the patient's insurance plan) are helpful but are not complete in the sense of unifying the workflow for doctors.

The other big thing that is severely lacking is the patient engagement and the data from Quantified self. When you walk into the office of a doc - all that information (FitBit, Nike FuelBand, etc , etc) doesn't help the doc provide personalized medicine to the patients. Nor does the patient has much engagement in managing their health (apart from taking the pills)..

ZocDoc(s) and PracticeFusion(s) are doing their parts but are still half baked solutions.

Hopefully we will be able to change that !
This is beautiful - I strongly recommend increasing the text contrast. I'm on a Macbook Air and I can hardly see the form labels and subheaders, so I despair for anyone on a shitty old screen etc.

Will be using this in next project tho!
There are allowances for food. That's what government schemes like income support is for. That's what state pensions are for. They're there to cover the bare essentials (food, water, heating and -to a lesser degree- rent).

The problem is such schemes are abused by many individuals where parents refuse to work because they'd "earn" more money from income support and such like. Those that know how to work the system to afford luxuries instead of the money going to towards the essentials to survive. But that's a whole other topic.
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It helps a lot if we watch some videos before actually program in a new language. It is also faster way to learn than reading a book, although reference books can be invaluable. I practically learned ActionScript by watching a screencast.
I'll mention here a blog post of mine written a while back on the subject of Open Source Games entitled "Cool Open Source Games you should contribute to". It lays out a dissemination of issues OS games face and how you could help(touching most of the issues debated in comments here), along with a nice list of projects to get you started.

http://shinnok.com/rants/2011/07/18/cool-open-source-games-y...
Additionally to GIT_PS1_SHOWDIRTYSTATE the following are useful

export GIT_PS1_SHOWUPSTREAM="auto"
export GIT_PS1_SHOWSTASHSTATE=1
export GIT_PS1_SHOWUNTRACKEDFILES=1
Not the OP, but pictures of people tend to be a negative signal to me, as though someone's trying to use stock photos of faces to lend unwarranted legitimacy to their site.
The legal implications or the initial setup are not what worry me. But rather the issue when the OS gets hosed, and you have no method of booting into a recovery media.
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"The planet is fine, the people are fucked!" - George Carlin
I was more concerned about the site wanting my location data. I couldn't see any good reason why such information would be required for a site like that other than for analytics - and that's really not a good enough reason to request location data in my opinion.
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At a former job of mine, we used to have "Formal Friday." Soon enough, some started to attend "Flannel Friday" instead and it became quite the office-dividing phenomenon. Regardless, it can be quite fun and effective to have informally-defined clothing days. Gives people a nice chance too try out new pieces and styles.
First time posting here at HN, long time reader though.

I am fluent in English and German with no accent and I never had any formal education in either. Well that's not completely true as I did have standard English classes in primary and high school but that doesn't count because that stuff was pretty useless.

I learned both languages by watching endless hours of English and German TV, first cartoons as a kid and then the rest later on. Actually for English it was pretty much Cartoon Network so in a sense Cartoon Network taught me English.

One thing that surprises most people is that all of this was completely without subtitles. I'm not sure how one goes from not knowing a word of a language to speaking it fluently by watching and listening to a foreign language with no reference points but that's how it went for me.
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I feel like people are missing the point about the "fake geek" meme. If a bunch of football players were strutting around in batman costumes at conventions I feel like the same ire would be directed at them. Geeks are (or were) mostly outcasts. The geek world was their world. Now the popular kids are into geek culture since it's the in thing and they feel like they are losing their world. Being pushed to the perimeter of a world they built as a refuge. I understand the view, and I often feel wistful that if I see someone wearing a batman t-shirt there's a much smaller chance than before that he's friend material.
Well, unless they changed the sources (models, lighting etc), probably not, however, re-rending would allow for higher resolution (1080P or cinema resolutions) and higher frame rates (not sure what blu-ray does in terms of frames), as well as tiny adjustments for display on modern cinema screens and TV's.
The only first-hand info I was able to find up to now, anybody has more?

http://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/education/competition...
I will not be sad to see "rape a bitch" macros go but having their ads next to stuff like this is exactly what they signed up for. They signed up for their ads to be displayed next to whatever anyone posted.

Anyone who has used the internet for any length of time knows there are large amounts of disturbing content on it which will definitely spill into any user generated content site. I find it hard to believe that 15 separate companies failed to realise this, especially since I would expect their advertising departments to be well read on "the internet".

What I think may be happening is one company latching onto a group of activists with a very reasonable request to get some positive press and a bunch of companies "me too"ing along behind them. 4 companies were named in this article and 2 of them got airtime on NBC with the most inoffensive sound byte ever ("we are against rape"). That's free TV air time in a news slot appealing to your core demographic.
Getting only 4.8% percent of throughput for reads doesn't seem stellar. Why is this so bad?
You don't have to pay for membership. Free accounts have a 10% commission, versus 15% for vworker. Our paid commissions drop this as far as 3%.

You were happy moving your clients in to pay 15%?
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Clients do not see anything related to your internal freelancer rewards level.
The only badges they see are exam badges with your score.
Sorry to say but the majority of that is ugly
This is great! Thanks for the link. The ODF situation is better than I would've hoped!
Sounds like you had a truly sucky experience. I'm sorry to hear about that.
Other than grading, compositing and sound, rendering's generally the final step - definitely, the modelling, lighting, animation and texturing have to be done before the rendering can be started.
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I think your characterisation of the enterprise culture as vicious isn't too far off the mark. :)
Well, Microsoft Office supports ODF and can use it as the default for all new files. At least since the 2010 version. If even MS recognizes that ODF has won, we have no reason to use OpenXML.
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That's was the clip that motivated me to make the comment in the first place.
I suspect that smartphones will be the future of authentication, for better or worse. It would be neat if you could tap your phone at your computer to authenticate with actually secure crypto handshake over NFC. Most likely we'll be stuck on google-authenticator -like stuff, which feels bit of a kludge in comparison.
Any similar system qualifies, like Vidarh points out. :-)
Actually it's the case with most, if not all european countries.
Why do you think New York City is not as free as many places in the US? (Just curious.)
Does this mean that the hardware is pretty much guaranteed to boot slower if not booting Windows too, in order to do USB initialisation, even when not going to the boot screen?
Even when sending patches via email, I've always been asked by maintainers to do the trivialities myself and re-submit. I suspect at least part of the reason was education.
I'm surprised nobody has mentioned inuit css[0]. It's written by the highly knowledgeable Harry Roberts (aka CSS Wizardry) and it has exactly this goal. All you get is some boiler plate stuff. It's well designed (from a code perspective) and states "inuit.css provides little-to-no design which means no undoing things, no deleting CSS and no adhering to other peoples’ design decisions.". Though I guess it might be one step back from what you want, as you won't really find widgets, carousels or anything beyond very simple components in the framework.

[0] http://inuitcss.com/
I agree with you on that. I didn't mean to say that the idea or the video wasn't good.
My mistake. Carry on.