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and lots of experiments, new websites and happy users appeared because HTML has been accepted leniently
After months of hard work, my co founders and I have launched our website, http://kraterminer.com. We're now ready to take orders and ready to get 1 good nights sleep ;)
Being a part of the ESEA community since 2007, the majority of the CS players concerns are only that the person who implemented the code AkA Jaguar, was also the person responsible for bans on the network. Their have not been any bans for Cheating since the end of May (I believe).
Agreed. If your "penis is cleaner than your hands", why are you contaminating it when your hands? Or, you could wash both after.
Sure but the executive branch is setting a horrible example by enforcing federal laws against drugs in states where said drugs are legal.

If the administration and a local jurisdiction disagree on what's legal they shouldn't use the citizenry as a proxy punching bag through which they release their frustration.
I hate to be snarky, but I could rant and joke for a long time about the state of information processing at DoD. What came to my mind first? The funniest part about DFAS is that it has the word "accounting" in it :)

Once a project gets entangled with the massive systems-of-systems stuff DoD has going on in all of its agencies the prospects for improvement are slim. Remember, each system has its own champion, and folks making money keeping it updated. Many of these folks have powerful friends.

Good luck to you, sir.
I couldn't agree more with your edit. You've nailed it.
What about sales?
The strange thing about this is that in the UK, here every major food retailer has been doing this for years. It also has to be said, they don't break-down figures but most folks suspect it's not a profitable activity - it's a market share activity.
on a bike I feel much safer if I can see the traffic coming towards me... as opposed to riding on the right side of the street... might be a little more dangerous at busy intersections though..
The name "Flock" was already used a few years back, for a browser that had some social media integration:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flock_(web_browser)

Given how that effort appears to have failed, the name "Flock" is somewhat tainted for many people who remember that browser.
> Last night I worked all day on an isolated beach

Do you typically get a lot done working like this? I'd like to give it a shot, but I'm worried that it's not productive at all.

How'd you work all day on battery power? Did you have an internet connection? Did the sunlight make your screen unreadable? Did you have a good and comfortable work posture? Did sand get in your devices?
My quite simple opinions on Prism etc.
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Normally, I'm not a fan of centralization, but the audits that keep coming out of the government show they need to get their fiscal house in order. The disgrace that the VA has become is another symptom. Centralized personal and payroll would help veterans by getting all the records in one place.

On a side note, I don't think anyone in the Pentagon should be doing payroll (beyond sending the forms to say Joe/Jane is now this and should make $). I want the same person who makes sure the President's people get paid responsible for all of the military. They should get the same level of service.
How does it compare to League of Legends?
These companies aren't at fault, our government is

I think the companies are also at fault. If instead of illegal surveillance the companies were being asked to illicitly expose employees to potentially harmful radiation, the moral culpability would be more obvious, regardless of the letter of the FISC laws their corporate counsel was shown.

There was clearly a decision on the part of the employees of the companies involved not to risk their own livelihoods by simply going along with what the government wanted.

I'd argue that major atrocities are possible via the combined impact of institutionally diffused acts of moral depravity such as those committed by our beloved tech companies.
While I agree a significant down-sizing of these tactical forces is required, I think a good argument can be made for the capability of police and government leaders to call a specially trained team within a certain timeframe to combat escalated force.

If a couple of guys with easily available automatic weapons decide to stroll through a shopping mall it's nice to have that option, but you don't need one in every town, and every police officer doesn't need to be in full tactical kit all the time.

I'm speaking out of turn but part of it is also cultural - if you're wearing a vest and you've got the weapons and everything strapped to you looking unsociable with your sunglasses and scowl you're a badass. I gather normal blues don't get the same reaction within the community.
An earlier article submitted here was by the the pentagon paper's guy (who decided not to go into exile), in which he said Snowden did the right thing and would have ended up like BM had he stayed.
Maya and photoshop also need to support linux.
Props to you guys for all the work you do :-)
These players tend to stay in the low levels of matchmaking. In high and very high matchmaking, people are a lot more cooperative or criticize constructively. However, without playing ~500 games (~500 hours), you probably won't graduate from the low skill bracket.

Knowing that those people are out there, what you can do is be the moral leader. When the game starts, give the all-chat "good luck have fun" greeting, start discussing lane strategy, team strategy (push/turtlefarm/gank), etc. If you make a mistake, live up to it. The only time the trolls really ruin games is if everyone else is silent and lets the person continue ranting.

Learning to float above the trolls' guilt trips while still being able to admit your mistakes is an interesting emotional exercise.
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EXTRA CREDIT: Anyone who considers tackling this and finds themselves interested in the niche of wedding/event photographer should look at combining this service with shopping-cart/gallery solutions that currently exist. The marketplace for those is fucking awful. Feel free to email me, but googling will get you the big players. I just don't wanna bash them by name in a public forum. All well meaning folks I'm sure, but every one of them are terrible flash-based, no-mobile software. Do backup and gallery/print-ordering management correctly and we're a customer at four figures per year.
Are we our own prisoners?
Judge finds Apple colluded on e-book prices; sought to end competition
Also it's a compounding process. Having a game that's fun only when you're succeeding selects for players that like that, which creates a social component that makes it so it's only fun to succeed.

I don't find this genre fun whether I'm succeeding or not, for me it's 100% journey (casually and socially exploring the way mechanics combine into interesting gameplay - including failures as much as successes) and these games and their player base seem to be the precise opposite of that.
One assumes the fact that it just launched is partially responsible for that. We should see it take a more stable, but lower, position in the next month.
You definitely don't want to ask them how you file a complaint against a cop.

http://www.popehat.com/2012/02/28/remember-cops-are-your-fri...

The video will make you mad. I'm saying that as an excuse not to watch it.
I can see that, but remember that "Google" and "Yahoo" hardly sounded like uber-mature names when they came out either. They sound like serious products/companies now, but that's merely because of their sucsess.
Dart is already very useful, so I disagree with that assertion. It's the Dart compiler that handles type-checking, not the runtime. If you write "String foo = 42; return foo + 8;" and compile without type checking, you generate code that will work fine. But if you turn on type-checking, you get the type error at compile-time.

Furthermore, the compiler is responsible for resolving the dependencies your main program uses ("tree shaking" to remove stuff you don't actually use [1]), so there has to be a compiler even if your browser had a Dart VM built in.

[1] http://blog.sethladd.com/2013/01/minification-is-not-enough-...

I use Dart because it allows me to organize and test my code in a way that is very inconvenient with Javascript. Any speed improvements or IDE support is incidental, I have not yet had any speed problems in Javascript and I don't use their IDE :) The type-checking, library system, and the language itself is wonderful, though.
League of legends is probably the most mass market online game running right now when considered worldwide, except perhaps for World of Warcraft - and at this point I think it probably easily dwarfs WoW.

"As of October 2012, Riot Games claims League of Legends has over 32 million registrations and averages 12 million players worldwide per day;[5] global concurrent users online regularly peak at over 5 million players, as of March 2013.[6] In July 2012 Xfire released a report stating that League of Legends was the most played PC game in North America and Europe, with 1.3 billion hours logged by players in those regions between July 2011 and June 2012.[48]"
If meth is legalized tomorrow, will you start using it?
Martin Reveals What the Real ‘Game of Thrones’ Iron Throne Actually Looks Like
It's true, and of all the clones, I've found Dota 2 to have the friendliest community by far and it's is constantly getting better. It's night and day from what I remember it being six months ago.

Valve's commitment to tweaking behaviour through player feedback has been surprisingly effective. You can read a bit about it here: http://blog.dota2.com/2013/05/communication-reports/
Tough call. As someone who doesn't quite meet the accredited investor thresholds, this is good for me, but I can see it being used to scam lots of people.
If they have better knowledge, ideas and get better results, yes.
I'll try that. Wish me luck :)
Would that customer even know what she's advocating? I bet she'd end up advocating her hosting company, not 37sig.

So you go the extra mile, find contact info for her host and give it to you, what's the response? Probably "OH now you're pawning me off on someone else?!"

The classic story of customer service is Nordstrom giving a customer a refund on tires (they don't sell tires). But that's an uncomplicated transaction -- 'I went to Nordstrom and they gave me my money back'.

Maybe I'm just being negative, maybe it's from doing phone support in college (explaining an ISP vs. a web host to $5/month customers is not fun) or working retail for years before that... but man, supporting the public is hard and it's really hard to figure out when going the extra mile is a net loss for everyone.

Zappos is great, but I wonder what would happen if I called them for help with my iPhone... ;)
Well done! Good luck.
Read up on the "most favored nation" clause Apple demanded from the publishers.
Cantas - Firstly Nodejs/socket.io Opensource realtime webapp.
Cantas team release OpenSource #Nodejs project， Hope it help you to understand backbone,websocket. https://github.com/xiaods/cantas
Is it possible that the CEOs are in fact telling the truth, but are unaware/ignorant that at the carrier level (before reaching the ingress points), data headed to their respective networks/server farms is being "copied"?

Does Google, Apple, Skype, etc. physically own Internet infrastructure, or are they all leased lines from carriers?

If they owned any physical "lines", and the gov was tapping into these lines, then they would be lying about the direct access claim.

But if they don't own these lines, it seems the companies can't do anything about it, and that the telcos are the villains.

Apologies in advance if I'm oversimplifying.
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Undertexter subtitle translation site raided by police
Probing the innovation management implications of ex-Valver's ejection
Pantheon: Take Pain Out Of Collaborative Web Development w/New Multidev Feature
Logical paths might be connected to your development work. Clients, vendors, or other related companies might know you and be interested in hiring you.
I don't think BitTorrent ever got popular in Japan - this survey [1] says that only 6% of file-sharing users used BitTorrent in 2006. I think these entirely new systems were natural developments out of other, older systems from which everyone then moved, like WinMX and Limewire.

[1] http://www.infoworld.com/d/developer-world/number-file-share...
If it's true that they've gotten it to punch thru any main NAT & firewall they've tested it's already ahead of Bitcasa, who STILL hasn't added proxy settings to their client.
How do you know who you're talking to?
Since drug war/prison system/militarized police keeps popping up on HN, I'd highly recommend anyone very interested in learning more about how this came to be to watch the documentary "The House I Live In."

Trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a0atL1HSwi8
Link to site: http://www.thehouseilivein.org/

It's an excellent explanation of how drug laws and being "tough" on crime have led to skyrocketing incarceration rates, trigger happy cops, and broken communities.
National Geographic photographer arrested for feedlot overflight
Consider pipefitting in oil and gas, similar to plumbing better wages.
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Samsung overtakes Apple on mobile web use
It would be interesting to get a lot of data (HN specialty!) looking at the breakdown of all the different approaches. It seems like there are 2 extremes, and a wide variety from place to place.

Certain parts of NYC has seen amazingly drops in violent crime due to more "community-oriented" policing that requires officers to integrate themselves into the fabric of the neighborhoods in their precincts (I think it's NYC...). On the other end, you have that Salon article about SWAT teams gone willy nilly.

Some basic correlations, and visualizations showing comparative effectiveness of the different techniques could go a long way....
I know the book (actually I think it's on the table behind me in a stack as I type) but I didn't catch that reference from what you posted.
Nice. This is a great suggestion and timely. I hear that gas pipefitters in the Australian outback make ~200K a year if you're willing to travel...
OT as well, but I just wanted to let you know that you made awesome progress over the year. Very inspirational. You are dope.
Actually they check the $_GET['id'] variable, which is used to set the $UserId variable. Check the top of the source:

if (empty($_GET['id']) || !is_numeric($_GET['id']) || (!empty($_GET['preview']) && !is_numeric($_GET['preview']))) {
Well, what is power? In this case it's the ability of somebody to say what you can and cannot do. But there are complexities in a non-hierarchical organization which lacks management structure. Those in power may not think they have power, they may not have much information about what you are doing, they may not have a clear way to tell you what to do. Power is implicit and soft. The rules only exist insofar as you interpret them from the environment and you follow them by your own accord, fearing imagined consequences.

Succeeding in this kind of organization requires not only jockeying for position, but more subtly, overcoming the self-imposed coercion. This is where irreverence comes in handy. Once you eradicate fear, you can afford to take the risks required to freely design your relationship with your colleagues such that you have sufficient power. Ultimately you want them to trust you and you want to be able to challenge them on any topic. You want respect, and people respect excellence, confidence, and risk-taking.

If for whatever reason you're working with people who are incapable of collaborating, your irreverence will either be taken as a threat that may change their behavior in your favor, or otherwise you can leave and it won't seem out of the blue.
Some law enforcement officers have no choice but to operate like this.

My dad was a Sheriff in a really remote area of California when I was a kid. He would often tell me how his closest backup was sometimes 30-45 minutes away. When he pulled someone over, or responded to a domestic dispute, he had no choice but to try to resolve any conflicts by talking. He once even told me, his number one weapon of choice was talking. I don't think he ever even had to pull out his gun once, during his career.

Sadly, if you know another cop can roll onto the sene in under 30 seconds, there isn't much incentive to resolve problems without a huge show of force.
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The old saying "when you've got a hammer everything looks like a nail" comes to mind. If you have a full time SWAT team but only need them legitimately 6% of the time what do you do with the rest of their time? In these cases it looks like the Police department's solution is to just use them for inappropriate stuff when there isn't anything better to do.
This looks like a really powerful platform for people that just want to throw up information on the web with minimal effort. I felt motivated, and just put together a post on using one of our products on neocities.org

http://georgeinenglish.com/easily-add-trending-data-neocitie...

Enjoy!
The Vegan Self-Experiment Part II – Results
Yeah but they were funded and trained by DHS money, training that focuses on fighting wars not peaceful conflict resolution. You're right though, it's not just one administration, this is the Bush Administrations fault as much as the Obama Administration.
back up, sorry!
I'm fairly certain LoL also has these counter measures in place, alas, it's still full of trolls and toxic people (not to say that there aren't well behaved ppl, but compared to other games...)
Dota2 being the most commonly played game on Steam has been true for several months. During which time it was "Beta", not that it was hard to get your hands on a beta key.
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League of Legends has about an order of magnitude greater number of players. However, Dota 2 has until recently been in open beta, and League of Legends came out years earlier. Although the beta keys are essentially obtainable for anyone, the extra step in obtaining said keys may be enough of a disincentive for many people to not play.

Source for LoL numbers: http://www.riotgames.com/articles/20130312/700/league-legend...
I don't get all the for-telnet arguments. Who uses telnet for this anyway? I'd bet that 90% of telnet-folk do:

cake:~ mali$ telnet google.com 80
Trying 74.125.235.8...
Connected to google.com.
Escape character is '^]'.
GET / HTTP/1.1
.......
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Wed, 10 Jul 2013 22:25:02 GMT
Expires: -1
Cache-Control: private, max-age=0
Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1

At which point they go "oh cool" and go do something else. For the rest of us who use curl, wget, requests, Chrome / Firefox developer tools every day (who are we kidding, it's everyone, you liars! :P), the binary transformation would be transparent.

Hell, if you're going for pure cool-factor, how is pulling out your hex editor less cool? But in reality, you'd never do this.

For a non-standardized and obscure protocol where tooling would likely be lacking, I can see why human readability is a good idea. But we're talking about the very protocol that makes up the fabric of the internet. Seriously, why?

Give me one good reason.
Payroll system responsible for paying 2.7 million people makes lots of mistakes. News at 11.

Wal-Mart, who has about a million employees, has faced similar problems.
Release candidates for Wayland 1.2 out
It didn't really just launch though, its been called beta but in reality it has been released for a very long time.
Have you considered supporting compressed files or compressing them automatically after uploads? HttpGzipModule and ngx_http_gunzip_module will handle these files automatically. A server can handle more pages and probably also decrease the disk load because of the smaller files.
From a business point of view, this is so bad that coffee shops should not only not have Wifi altogether, but have jammers.
Not a flippant comment...... I blame Hollywood.

I honestly do.

They glamorize and hero worship mega violent law breaking cops, while at the same time portraying criminals as super beings with government like resources, who always lose due to the violent law breaking cops.

The people in the end believe this to be a vaguely true, even though in their lives they rarely see it, most cops are in fact fairly decent professionals, and criminals are average to dumb folk with bugger all resources, while the cops think they look crap compared to the Hollywood versions, and want more powers and toys.

No? Well, I'm yet to see a credible argument as to why adverts influence us, but movies don't. One of those special people who claim ads dont work on you? Simply, I don't believe you. Every one reckons that, yet ads work.
That's a bit of a straw man there.

It isn't a strawman, though you may be interpreting the comment in a different manner: Proudly boasting about excessive work if you haven't optimized your efforts is not something to consider an accomplishment. Yet it is absolutely common throughout the Western world.

I've always been a "slacker" in the sense that I like to live a varied life. That means when I work I accomplish the most with the least. Many, many people make no such attempt: Thinking back to coworkers back when I was an employee sort, the sorts that did the heroic hours and had the endless late nights by and large accomplished very little, because the metric that they were rewarded on -- at least in their own self-evaluation -- was effort.

So the guy cutting the grass might boast about clipping his yard with nail clippers, just as the developer talking about their 90 hour work weeks spends 88 of them surfing Reddit. This is endemic, and the result is very low productivity because the results aren't measured, the perceived effort is.
A restaurant get's more hits on their Yelp page than their actual website. When shit get's super fragmented it helps everyone involved to have an aggregator. It's why the App Store works so well.
You are 100% correct. The one percent do not use any of those services. As a one percenter mentioned to me, "why would I have a random person pick me up at the airport? My wife picks me up. And she does my shopping."
Dota 2 has been the most popular game on Steam for a while now, and with the gradual rollout of beta keys the number playing has been steadily climbing - you can see a graph of the number of players on steamgraph[1].

[1]: http://steamgraph.net/index.php?action=graph&jstime=1&appid=...
Good point about not loosing 1st amendment protection.
Good points. I'm coming from a pretty speculative direction where I'd want to enforce invariants, like: repair this tissue in-situ so that its thickness is always between x and y. Or make sure the density of this kind of cell in this region is at least A, and no more than B.

Basically, 3d modelling for tissue. How do you specify the reference model?
AngularJS Injection: How does it know?
BTW, where is Gabe (yegg)? I haven't seen a post from him in a while.
I think most of the taps they're referring to involve tapping light directly off the fiber, which reduces the light intensity at the receiving end and can therefore be detected in theory at least

Interfering with existing amplifiers/signal boosters would be fairly hard to hide unless the NSA was solely responsible for that units maintenance, and I suspect that as a general rule they aren't. It's much easier to hide a tap at some random point along the line where nobody has any reason to visit
You've got to start somewhere. And it seems like it makes sense to release the first one you finish so you can get some early feedback.

Trying to hold out releasing anything until you can do everything you want? Recipe for never releasing anything.
Congrats on the release of your app! Looks cool. :)