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And who does the changing? I've noticed several articles titles changing throughout the day. I also remember that one story I posted had the title changed.
Just wondering!
I run stock 4.1 until last week, when CM 10.1 went stable.
When I say support, I mean continue to get the later versions (nexus s stopped at JB 4.1) .
This is false. Think about it this way. A random walk is a martingale - you're expectation of where you'll be in the future is. So you're right that, before you start the walk, they have expectation of being at 0 at any time in the future.

But the variance of your probability distribution of where you'll be at time t is linear in t. So say that your variance is v(t)=t. Then at t=1, there is a 32% chance that you'll be outside of the range (-1,1). As you can see, as t increases, you expected to drift further than further.

So while the expectation of x(t) may be 0 for all time, the expectation of |x(t)| scales like sqrt(t) (the standard deviation of the distribution).
Where would I find the source code for the version of the command line utility "column" that ships with Debian? The BSD one doesn't handle consecutive tabs in a .tsv. I since wrote a version in go as an exercise but I'd still like to know how to find the source for debian's version.
Not only that but six dead spam comments from five user accounts created that day.
Reader had ~single digit millions monthly actives, very likely less than ten million (http://www.quora.com/How-many-users-does-Google-Reader-have). It's just not that many people (which is why Reader got cancelled after all).
>Not all jobs are supposed to be able to support a family of 4 at a middle-class lifestyle on 40 hours a week.

Sophistry. Come on, you can do better than that.

>What jobs are teenagers supposed to have?

They can mow yards, build crappy websites with PHP, Lemonade stands, etc. I don't know, nor do I particularly care. Teenagers aren't a significant part of the economy. For my part, I worked at all kinds of crap as a teenager, never making as little as the minimum wage, carefully saving up thousands of dollars (really, I was a tight fisted teenager). I pissed away lots of chances to have fun, only to face the realization that my years of constant after-school employment hadn't even netted me enough money for a single year of room, board, and tuition at a state college.

>We need to have entry-level jobs for people who are just getting started in the labor market,

If it isn't worth paying someone a livable wage, then it obviously isn't an essential need. That's basic econ telling you to stop wasting your time.

>whose labor isn't worth that much because they are still working on basic job skills, like showing up to work on time sober.

Vocational school, and probationary employment seem sufficient to me.

>FYI: I don't think raising the minimum wage just a buck is going to have any significant downsides.

Me neither. One might even argue for locales to define a minimum wage, maybe somehow indexed to the cost of living, as at least one has.

>We need to remember that there can be people whose labor isn't worth that new minimum wage, though.

Are you referring to mentally and physically disabled people? There is a gov't program to subsidize their wages, which still allows employers (like Goodwill Industries) to abuse them arbitrarily (but supposedly based upon an objective metric of productivity).

>There is something to be said about an employer having 3 $8-an-hour employees versus 2 $12-an-hour employees.

Is there? Please say it.
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Discovered through the new "Bugs" link in HN's footer.
I have mixed feelings about that. On the one hand, I fully agree - I hate having all kinds of junky game clients running on my computer when I ought to just be able to have one, Steam, which is obviously doing a decent job.

On the other hand, I think that competition will drive Steam to be better (or maybe, just maybe, result in something better than Steam), and so I don't necessarily want the other companies to stop trying to compete entirely, either.
http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/tool#Noun I guess it's #7: An obnoxious or uptight person.
Security update regarding your Ubisoft account
To add insult to injury, another (though less severe of course) security issue is this - I went to the "change password" page per their recommendation, and typed my email. Usually, security best practices say that you should not volunteer any information for a potential attacker, e.g. don't tell the user if an email was sent or not, as this can be used for example to eventually construct a list of all their user's emails (Although they have captcha protection so it's not really feasibly or at least less likely in a reasonable cost, but still, I can find out if John Doe has a Ubisoft account or not, e.g. if I'm Joe's manager who works for a competitor, and he swore last night that he never plays Ubisoft games, busted!).

So this is what I got from their change password screen:

"No account was found matching those entries. No email will be sent."

So I'm glad I learned that I don't have my password compromised. but I think someone at Ubisoft need to take web security 101 again

p.s. Who encrypts passwords anyway? isn't there a consensus to hash using bcrypt / scrypt + random salt?
I wonder if this is the reason why during psychedelic trips time seems to last much longer. The vast amount of completely new information causes the brain to slow time down.
Your vision has inspired a lot of people, like me, to organize and disseminate the Startup Weekend's spirit, and thus inspiring even more entrepreneurs that live at the cities where SW has taken place.

Thanks for your dedication with this cause, unfortunately people who don't share the same values won't understand what's like to work a lot for free, to provide the best event possible.
I would recommend rolling your own consumers, or using one of the following libraries:

- http://hybridauth.sourceforge.net/ (PHP)

- https://github.com/intridea/omniauth (Ruby)

Anybody have any equivalents for other languages?
You would think someone with such strong opinions about Design would have bothered to actually Design their own site instead of being pretty blatantly "inspired" by Medium.com.
You are right in some sense but then they should not use the word "maths" either as if it were general. They should just stick to "one test", which happened to be "about maths" but who knows if this variable is relevant?
grep is nice. its gnarly in template heavy c++, but so are all the tools. intellisense can't reliably provide navigation among all of the possible instantiations in your project.

(esc;qgrep -rn thing .) is faster for me than reaching for the mouse.
--Reposted so you can simple 'click' the links--

Screen-shot of their website: http://i.imgur.com/LZoOp0D.png

With the ads 'fixed': http://i.imgur.com/8XTv8y9.png
Looks like that doesn't work,

https://gist.github.com/tantalor/5911137

The distribution ends up weighted towards the front with a spike at the end.

Looks like this: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/oimg?key=0AhzL62E3zw7-dG...
It's manpage tells me

> The column command is part of the util-linux package and is available from ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/

so http://sources.debian.net/src/util-linux
They offered you the chance to switch to the black one a month or two ago, which is what Best Buy is selling. That seems fair and reasonable. You can certainly still be upset that the color you picked got the short end of the stick, but one of them had to be last.
Criticue.com redesign
can someone please make a hall of shame for all the big Companies which where hacked!
i think there are quite a lot by now.
You apparently subscribe to the "film crew"/"theory Y" school of management thought:

http://programmers.stackexchange.com/a/45814

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theory_X_and_theory_Y#Theory_Y

There's no small number of managers that subscribe to the "widget factory"/theory X school, however; my impression is that it's the decided majority.
I have had a theory that most traditional matching engines can get away with lower latencies because they can multicast their marketdata.

It seems like sending out all marketdata events to each connected user over a tcp connection is bound to be problematic.

Perhaps they will add a collocation site where active Market Makers could receive multicasted marketdata with much lower latencies.
Getting upset over the stamp seems pretty pointless.
Can you elaborate on their track records?
How Great Leaders Inspire Action (TED talk)
This is a great little interview with Steve Russell, of whom Norvig wrote, "So the first Lisp interpreter was the result of a programmer ignoring his boss's advice." (PAIP p. 777) Too bad it isn't longer.
It's better for my hard drive and RAM. It's bad enough having just one program on my PC whose only purpose is to allow me to play the games I've purchased legitimately, I don't want any more.

It's also better for That One Service... but that's besides the point. ;-)
It's not only the difficulty in reporting bugs that is the problem, it's the rapid release cycle and the frequent regressions and bugs it seems to introduce. I don't know which of the other "large scale software" I use would have the same difficulty reporting bugs, because nothing else I use breaks basic functionality every few weeks.

However, for smaller-scale things, I've recently been in touch with a couple of on-line services I use and the manufacturer of a hardware device I bought about various problems. I interacted one-to-one or even one-to-many with some of their technical folks, with very satisfactory service in each case. No doubt there is a bug tracker somewhere on the other side and some new records got created in it along the way, but all I had to do was send a simple message describing my problem and then answer their rapidly-provided follow-up questions. I was happy to make the effort to do that, because they made it easy for me to help and gave me a feeling that my effort was doing something useful.

I would be just as happy to contribute usefully to supporting browsers if it was just as easy to do it. I want to help, and for a long time I really tried to do so. But I live in the real world, and I literally can't afford to spend half a day when no client is paying me just to do someone else's testing for them every time I find a bug in a major browser. Once in a while I could cope with, in the spirit of helping out. Several times a month just isn't practical.
I think you're absolutely right about the HN audience. In terms of your question, it would be ten texts, so we count texts bidirectionally.

Hopefully you're right about business owners. We anticipate that they'll see the value. Trext is designed to make SMS app creation accessible to non-programers.
I've been using Google Alerts via RSS for years now, primarily consuming the alerts by way of Reader, but more recently Feedly.

One thing I didn't expect was to have Alerts drop RSS support coinciding with Reader's death. However, today in Feedly I'm staring at a wall of "Google Alerts no longer supports RSS delivery" items.

This suggests to me that RSS was an output for Google products insofar as it served as a way of feeding content (and eyeballs) into Reader. Now that Reader is gone, why would Google output RSS?

Anyone seeing any other Google RSS feeds failing in a similar fashion?
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New Cloud training program launched
This is What Budget Cuts Have Done to Detroit...
Does anyone know what legal basis the president could use to preempt state laws in this case?
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I'm submitting this not as an endorsement of the article, but because I want to read other people's thoughts on this.

For me personally, this article rings a lot of journalistic alarm bells. In reddit parlance, it's smells like a big ol' circle-jerk.
Spending time designing in photoshop and then "cheaply" "outsourcing" HTML and CSS development, aka your _actual_ website, is a terrible idea. There are people who implement designs well, and they are worthwhile to hire if you don't know browsers; they're certainly not cheap.
As mentioned on that post, we didn't create those comments and new accounts and we didn't ask anyone to do so. All we did was ask for upvotes (which was a bad idea and the reason for us posting a second time to give it a fair chance without us influencing anything). We're really sorry for the first post and for how things went and we hope that the HN community forgives such a stupid mistake which won't ever be repeated again.
Agree 100%.

As someone who's been doing web development since 1995, I have wasted an enormous amount of my life dealing with IE-specific bugs. This is enough for me to feel uncomfortable even thinking about Internet Explorer and has tainted me against Microsoft products in general...
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1. who would insert that fragment in a page (and where, but let's ignore that)? I don't think you can expect sites to do it to make their site work with users who have JavaScript disabled (target audience is too small), so the browser must do it. How is the browser going to figure out whether to insert it?

Also: how is that not a dialog? It presents a message to the user, and waits for a reply.

I still think 'no JavaScript' is a niche feature that is best delegated to an extension that sports a whitelist or a blacklist of scripts to allow/forbid. A variation on Adblock would work fine (maybe, Adblock already can be used to blacklist JavaScript. If so, it is a matter of tweaking its UI)
I close what I'm working on when I'm done working on it. I don't like clutter. Simple as that.

Of course, I also work in an operating environment that generally doesn't leave desktop programs running after I close the last window. So, it just happens naturally when I close a window.
This is similar to why NoSQL was a hard sell after the novelty wore off. People have uses for SQL and its alternatives. Similarly, NoPSD is a fantastic, catchy term but of course we'll still want PSDs for graphic work. The point of NoX movements isn't really "None" just "Much less" and as a shorthand of expressing a way to do things differently.
Nothing fallacious about it.

The argument is they did it to "focus better".

You can not do something with the pretext of better focus and then do several other things that break that focus -- whether you were planning to do them anyway is irrelevant.

To put it in some (arbitrary but isomorphic to the argument) numbers, increasing your focus by 5 points and decreasing it by 20 still leaves you with a decrease of 15. Yes, it's better than decreasing it by 25, but that's not the point -- it's a minor pedantic correction. A decrease of 15 is hardly "focusing".
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I don't see why B is important as long as A is the goal.
Is there even any reasonable excuse for limiting the length of passwords to something less than hundreds of characters?
Well if you understood the fundamentals it's actually not that far to being able to design a board. Designing a chip is a whole other matter but can also be quite easy if you are comfortable with FPGAs and using IP cores. I'd say there's about a 0% chance of you having your own fab so the ASIC firm you hire will usually help you synthesize the high level language design to silicon (for a price).

Once you're comfortable with your routing tool, check out the following links. This is the material I use as a refresher when jumping back into high speed digital design:

http://www.ti.com/lit/an/scaa082/scaa082.pdf <-- Check out page 7, has a great diagram for what happens with reflections

http://www.freescale.com/files/32bit/doc/app_note/AN2536.pdf

http://www.altera.com/literature/hb/stx2/stx2_sii52012.pdf
One could also build a version of this with a Raspberry Pi, LCD screen an a little scripting for less than $60.
We're working on some SMS best practices white-papers. Ultimately our customers are responsible for complying with rules and regulations. But, we advise them to provide an opt-out in the first message (text STOP at anytime).
I've been looking for a Lastpass alternative forever. Had no idea Dashlane existed, thanks!
Change title of a mocha test case programmatically.
What does it being open source have anything to do with it? People didn't like it when MS did it because it introduced additional unwanted bloat in the OS that was annoying to decouple.
I agree with you. I work in software development and have followed Mozilla's bug tracker for over 5 years, and i STILL don't really understand how to use Bugzilla.

On the dozen or two occasions that i've filed a ticket, probably 1/3 of them ended up being duplicates (which i always search for, but never find, because i don't get how to use Bugzilla's search function), and another 1/3 end up going un-acknowledged. The remaining 1/3 get acknowledged, but i've yet to see one actually get fixed (which i understand is a function of resources and blah blah, i'm not bitter about it or anything).

On one occasion, i was able to locate the source of the bug i had, and, even though i had absolutely zero experience with 'lower-level' languages like C++ at the time, i decided i would fix it. I pulled trunk and managed to build it, which was an enormous affair, let me tell you, and in the end i had a fix. I submitted the patch, but was told that i would need to put it through their testing system. I was given a link to a wiki, but this entire process was just absolutely beyond me at the time and i bailed on it. I just wanted to help them fix a bug. The bug is still there to this day.

To Mozilla's credit, they did (do?) have a user-feedback extension with the beta/Aurora builds that allows regular users to report bugs in a simple manner directly from the browser. You'd pick 'Firefox made me sad' and then just type what the problem was and click submit. However, i have no idea where these bugs go, how closely they're looked at, or how successful they've been in reducing bugs.
You can't "fix" the popping sound issue in software as it's a hardware issue. What Raspbmc does is use is the PulseAudio workaround that I'd described in my previous post.
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[1] - https://blog.linode.com/2013/04/16/security-incident-update/
[2] - http://arstechnica.com/business/2012/03/bitcoins-worth-22800...

I believe there may have been other incidents.

That said, I still have a number of services running happily on Linode. :)
Aside from your misleading assertion the encounters were "consensual" (you can't consent when asleep, and consenting on the condition that your partner wears a condom doesn't mean consenting to having sex without the condom) both seem like clear cut allegations of sexual assault to me. If you really think his alleged behavior is no big deal, well there's no civil way of saying this but that makes you an apologist for rape.

And that's without even getting into how little sense the conspiracy theory itself makes.
No.

A potential common excuse may be, "No one will remember a secure password in excess of 16 characters, we are trying to minimize support volume", but this is not a "reasonable" excuse.
Thanks! But I can't take any real credit, this YC company deserves it: www.strikingly.com
I've used Cloud66 for a few sites and would recommend them.

I like the workflow for creating stacks and I really like the polyglot nature of selecting which cloud to deploy to.

They did have a security incident a while back and I'd recommend reading up on that. They had a blog post about it but it appears they've since pulled that. I don't know what that's about.

I'll tell you that you'll be hard-pressed to find better customer support/service in another company. They're open to suggestions and will help you if you ever run into an issue deploying an app.
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I was pleasantly surprised to see this wasn't another article about why we should wake up early.
I've not heard the term 'HOF' before and didn't find it/expand it with a cursory search. Could you define/expand it?
A year ago people were foaming at the mouth at the prospect of a watch that was a vibrating e-ink backlit display with buttons and customizable watch face options and a battery that could go a week between charges.

Now it's getting panned for being nothing but a vibrating e-ink backlit display with buttons and customizable watch face options and a battery that could go a week between charges. Go figure.

I backed them on Kickstarter and got a black watch in the mail a couple months ago. I was surprised that it doesn't show me every notification by default, but somebody made a Pebble Notifier app to fill in the gaps there. Other than that, it fulfilled every expectation I had when I backed it, and I love the convenience of checking my notifications without having to pull my phone out of my pocket. The music controls are a pretty nifty feature I use often, too.

It sucks that they don't have their color options available yet, I don't know what their excuse is for that, but if they've worked all the kinks out in producing the black model then why shouldn't they get that on retail shelves as soon as possible?

I mean, the reason Kickstarter exists is so we regular consumers can recognize a company's potential and help them succeed, and now that this company is on the road to success we're going to get out our torches and pitchforks because they're struggling to ship certain variations of the product? I am flabbergasted at the entitlement some people feel, such that they think this company should run themselves into the ground financially just because they didn't get their special-colored watch yet.
You seem to confuse sample size with sampling error. Sure, only 1% (or whatever) of the population watches CNN. That doesn't mean the 1% watching the channel is not an average, mainstream viewer.

It can actually be that the average CNN viewer is exactly like the average person in United States. I don't think that's true, but I don't think the typical viewer is that far from the average.
I use it all the time. Mostly for notifications, music controls and checking the time.

It's also very coworker friendly since I can have my phone on mute all the time.

Overall it's a nice toy, not a life changer.
>Insignificant price controls don't make much difference, so it's basically a wash. Significant price controls tend to have predictable perverse effects. It seems to be impolite to report them: for some years, every time I read a story about long gas lines somewhere, I go searching for information to verify that yes, it was under a system of gas price controls, and generally I can verify it with enough poking around in search engines. But it seems very uncommon for it to be reported in the news story about gas lines. Because gas lines just happen, like sunspots, you know?

What is this? I don't even...

>If you think modern levels of intervention in the labor market --- not just minimum wage, but mandatory benefits and a host of other things --- have been imposed with such a marvellously deft touch

I don't.

>that they shouldn't cause persistent failure of labor markets to clear, it is possible to dream up other reasons that might conceivably explain the observed outcome of historically high long term unemployment. Not everyone finds those explanations convincing, though.

Whether you like the fact that our economy is putzed around by central planners is a different topic. I'll approach this with the foregone conclusion that it's what we're stuck with, and that we have to find a way to live with it. Actually, central planning has little to do with the obvious necessity that the people who live in and around our communities must be able to support themselves, and if they cannot; then that problem will sort itself out either through social programs paid by taxes, charity, the population's mobility, or as a last resort theft and violence.
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