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Okay, be honest. After reading this, how many of you searched for "Samsung Smart App Challenge".

https://www.google.com/trends/explore?q=Samsung+Smart+App+Ch...

I'm not sure that Samsung hasn't won this round...
it's more like doing everything possible to avoid allergen because you know that reaction of immune system will be disproportional.
This comes from a company that puts #FFF7ED as a background color on the SERP ads so that people with flat screens will not see it from certain angles and believe they are search results.

They most certainly possess the capability of doing a lot of A/B testing due to their immense volume, but I wouldn't go as far as to call it an attempt to psychologically manipulate people.
That seems like a lot of conjecture on your part.
Product Manager - The one-man band?
Many people do, that's exactly why they ask. It's not a good idea, but people do trust the police.
I was disappointed it wasn't.
Give evidence for any of this and maybe we can start discussing it. You've made 4 random statements with nothing to back it up.

It would be important for savvy readers to remember that HN has government/NSA shills that lurk about. Be careful what you believe without evidence.
You are welcome to measure anything you want. I am only reporting the statistics of marriage. First marriages fail about 50% of the time, while second marriages fail in the 70% range. Therefore, people are, on average, worse at their second and subsequent marriages than their first. It is rather irritating to contemplate, but the average person does not get better at staying married with practice, at least for "practicing" marriages with different people.

My point was that there exist skills (or goal oriented behavior, here the presumed goal being to stay married) that do not necessarily improve with "practice." Nothing else comes to mind, but I would be interested in other things that break the common notion of always getting better with "practice." Human beings are very complicated, and I can imagine other situations where practice does not make perfect.

I remember reading some research about divorced people where many reported that they had underestimated the emotional devastation that they felt after the divorce, and that if they had known how hard it would be, they would have tried much harder to rebuild their marriage.

As another off topic comment about how complicated people are, in marketing it is important to let people know that what you are selling is easy and quick and convenient and ... Except for one area, where it is critical to tell people how hard it will be and how much work they will have to do if they buy your product. And that field is body building. Body builders buy products that pitch how hard they will have to work and how much pain they will need to endure. Go figure.
Yeah there was no mention of any sort of search warrant.
Sorry, the novelty of your gimmick is quickly lost here, this is not reddit.
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https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3900224
I respectfully disagree with the major premise of your post. In every decent hacker there is a bit of masochist. Toolchain development is always the least glamorous role in the company and one of the most important. In the game industry you can usually tell the difference between successful studios and finger crossers by examining their toolchains.

I'm not saying that "this" is the big step forward, but any technology that maps more directly to our mental model or increases the pool of competent people that can interact in it advances the science of computation.

If i were to point to a specific example I'd say Kismet in the Unreal Engine is the best real world implementation I've seen. It redrew the line between artist and technical artist.
Really like this idea. My grandmother has had alzheimers for about a decade. There was a time at the beginning when this would have helped her spirits.
I've used Origami before, but Sublime's splitting is just fundamentally flawed, simply having some keyboard shortcuts can't fix that.
She is saying they are not from the FBI, but from the "joint terrorism task force"

https://twitter.com/inthefade/status/362729458806960129
I know this isn't the enterprise crowd on HN, but this idea is pretty deeply rooted in a lot of large organizations in the form of "Business Process Management". The BPM vendors all pitch the "let business users create software" promise. In reality (as others in the comments have said about similar tools) it's very hard to deliver anything but the simplest applications and maintain the ability for non-developers to grok what's going on.

Similar (standardized) notation: http://www.bpmn.org/

Also, blatent self-promotion (sorry) discussing the issues with graphical programming: http://c20g.com/site/blog/entry/the-promise-and-peril-of-bpm
It's quite noticeable on a page full of results. I'm finding it irritating because the contrast is lower.
Nice post; I had the same thought of using promises for memory access. I guess you could extend that to a massively-parallel design (promises for communication).

I think Torben Mogensen posted the same basic idea of replacing registers with 'temporal addressing' to Usenet back in the 90s -- comp.arch? comp.compilers? Boy, it's been a long time.
I hope this approach wins instead of asm.js
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This is a contract opportunity at least to start with. Could you get in touch and we can talk more? I'd love to know what you're looking for and see if it's a match.
"WSDL (SOAP) from AS3 to ColdFusion web service"

I know it probably wasn't this guy's choice, but whooo boy.
The default wrapping in most tools disrupts the visual structure of the code,
making it more difficult to understand.

It's 2013. Let's fix the tools.

You think we would have gotten past the point of having to manually figure out "where should I break these lines for the best readability." Code is meant to be consumed by machines, and a machine should be capable of parsing the stuff, figuring out visual structure, and wrapping dynamically to account for window width and readable line-lengths in a way that preserves the visual structure.
Agreed. Text of the revised recommendation:

> Aim to limit all lines to a maximum of 79 characters, but up to 99 characters is acceptable when it improves readability.
No, I don't. Mostly I was outright ignored, where it was active refusal it wasn't exactly a detailed explanation, just some polite version of "Thanks, but we're not interested.". I'm not particularly motivated to press matters when someone refuses help.
A weak memory model has almost nothing to do with ILP.

To exploit ILP, ARM has to do the same thing as every other register architecture: move to a superscalar out-of-order architecture. There's no real alternative. The weak memory model makes cache coherency protocols simpler/faster, but won't save you from false register dependencies.

Three-address code might make it possible to defer the costs of complex register renaming, but ARM has discovered the importance of code density, and Thumb-2 (2-address code) is preferred for most functions.
I can't speak for anywhere else, but I know that in Chicago, most gun violence is about settling scores, not about drug trafficking. Ending the war on drugs would keep a lot of non-violent offenders out of jail, but when teenagers who have never been to jail in the first place are shooting each other, you have to take a different approach.

Just last night -

"A 17-year-old boy was shot in the 2100 block of North Mulligan Avenue about 9:50 p.m. He was taken to Advocate Illinois Masonic Medical Center in good condition with a wound to his thigh, Police News Affairs Officer Ron Gaines said.

Another 17-year-old boy was shot in the back near 70th Street and Perry Avenue about 8 p.m. He was taken to Stroger Hospital, where his condition was stabilized."
There was a DailyWTF article years ago about a "Robert Null" who would be shown whenever you searched for employees with a blank input.

http://thedailywtf.com/Articles/Paging_Dr_0x2e__Null.aspx
I have a friend named Nan, and I posted every "NaN" error I got in my code on her Facebook wall for about a year. She hated it.
>Has it ever occurred to anyone, that Putin's Russia today is a conservative's "paradise"? I mean, if you do not agree with everything that 'progressive left' stand for, you may feel quite good in Russia.

Minus the extra judicial killing and prosecution of any serious political opponent.

Just to be clear, I don't try to judge Putin's russia through the "prism" of western media bias, I am sure he has done a lot of good for his country, but he has also done boatload of fucked up shit.
To verify credibility, all of us can just google pressure cookers and shop around a little. If true, then a few HNers will get a visit.
Over 1,000,000 people got up off their butts and put the actual effort in to physically marching on London to protest against the illegal war in Iraq. The left wing government took no notice what so ever. None.

Please, I am a Brit, can you tell me why the current right wing nut jobs we currently have ruining our country will take notice of people merely filling out a petition on the internet?

Im sorry, lazily filling out an e-Petition is only of any use if its what the government want to do in the first place. They use it validate their prejudice. If it differs from their policy, they will simply ignore it.

Worse still, if not may people sign the petition, they will use that too as an excuse to back up their prejudgment.

So, I say, get rid of that e-Petition now, it makes things worse.

Terrifyingly, speaking as a wet pacifist who couldn't fight his way out of a wet paper bag, the only way I see to oppose a sitting government is mass violence. Bigger violence that a few summers ago.
Even the old PEP8 was stating:

When applying the rule would make the code less readable, even for someone who is used to reading code that follows the rules.
This is deeply irrational.

The financial markets depend upon stability and law and order. They cannot function without it. The fear that markets and industries could be crippled with a simple bomb (not due to the reaction, but due to the event) did massive damage to the markets, which resonated and caused significant economic collateral damage. This is obvious given that the reaction to 9/11 was actually quite sedate for some time, and massive enterprises like the NSA's current adventure came about much later.
Snowden actually wanted to go to Ecuador - Russia was simply a layover on the flight. It's only because the US demonstrated it wouldn't allow him to leave (by virtue of pressuring European countries to deny airspace permission) that he's still here.
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Make yourself more suspicious by not letting them in?

EDIT: Has the point been reached where people are more afraid of being mis-targeted (e.g. my Chinese gf has a pressure cooker for rice) than being an actual "terrorist" attack victim? I sure hope so.
Money gets things done. It's no news that this basically is how DC operates.

But it is extremely worrisome to see this culture of corruption swapping over to Europe.
Came across Rudy's during a visit to TX a few years back.

Last year I finally ordered one of their briskets shipped - it was nearly as good delivered. (Even as the last of its dry ice evaporated upon arrival.)
The Ada community is actually growing. Ada has a bad rap because back in the day Ada was a DoD requirement, which meant that vendors could ship compilers that conformed to the spec, but otherwise sucked rocks. With the advent of GNAT it's no longer the case that your compiler is bound to suck. I learned Ada primarily with the help of free resources. The ARM is also free.

Granted, the sort of person who is likely to use Ada is not a l33t hax0r, but someone who's been around the block a few times on major engineering projects. Still, GNAT has bindings to the likes of Gtk and OpenGL, a direct result of increasing interest in Ada outside of critical systems engineering.

It's a bit of a chicken and egg problem, but the one thing you really need for a successful OSS project are developers. Do any of the Object Pascal implementations actually have a community?

FreePascal/Lazarus does. It's mainly Europeans (French and Germans primarily) who once did PC development with Turbo Pascal.

I'm not sure anybody would use Objective-C if it weren't for Apple, any more than people would choose to use JavaScript if it weren't for it being the only language available in the browser.

I would (and do). Its Smalltalk-based object system is much easier to wrangle than C++'s.

A codebase as large as a browser written in C would be a horrible, unmaintainable mess IHMO.

Yes, point against C. C++ has the advantage that it can turn even small codebases into horrible, unmaintainable messes. :) This is the reason why I converted an entire game engine to Objective-C.
Bashar al-Assad is on Instagram
Firstly the article explicitly stated the authors belief that it could be FRAND and I disagree with that. Really that is probably the fundamental area for disagreement in these FRAND cases and can be debated without reference to a particular case (and having to get into a detailed who did and said what session).

Secondly I'm not sure that there is much dispute that any cash deal offered was probably beyond the bounds of reasonableness.

I fear the ITC wants to be relevant so it is using the only sanction it has (import bans) despite the inappropriateness in the case of FRAND patents.
Using Kickstarter data to predict Ubuntu Edge's success
Where would you seek refuge then, assuming you wanted to remain alive for > 1 week?
The idea is neat, but author's choices for design and wording make it really hard to trust and understand the offer. I'm pretty sure that potential non-technical founders won't convert on this page due to great amount of actually technical language.
If they don't have an order, they should not come in (unless invited to do so, of course). It has nothing to do with being "suspicious."
They do have black SUVs so I'm not sure why the objection there. The joint terrorism task force is the FBI, whose agents are typically in plain clothes and not in a uniform. And they were asking questions why would they need the SWAT team? For all you know those guys were staged around the corner like they normally do anyway.

Wise up.
Its interesting when a Saas company aquire-hire's an agency, I wonder what will happen to all of the other e-commerce clients that Jet Cooper was working with that don't use Shopify.

I also wonder if I was the only one that misread and thought the Shopify had acquired a Jet-Copter and thought, those boys up there in Canada are getting a little too big for their britches.
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There are several issues here. First, the comparisons are often brought up in response to those claiming - directly or indirectly - that terrorism is an existential threat to America. The fact that we live with things that kill vastly more people puts the lie to that.

Second, the issue is the marginal expenditure to marginal deaths. We spend tremendous effort and some freedom reducing auto accidents, and we reduce them substantially. We don't spend trillions more at this point, because we don't consider it worthwhile. Before 9/11, we had some level of expenditure (of effort, money, freedom) on preventing terrorism, and doubtless saw some reduction in terrorism over what it would have otherwise been, and had it down to some particular level. Since 9/11, we've been spending that plus trillions of dollars and more of our freedoms, and the most we can possibly do is reduce terrorism to zero - and even if the alternative were a significant increase in terrorism (something like 9/11 every other day, instead of - generously - once every several years) there would still be more room to save lives in these other ways.

Finally, 9/11 had an enormous cost, but a lot of the psychological cost is due to fear mongering from people who lack the perspective the numbers bring. Another large portion of that cost is due to lack of resiliency in the companies with offices in the WTC, and companies doing business with those companies, &c. The former is addressed through education and leadership, the latter by encouraging behaviors that will also help in the case of (say) a massive hurricane. None of this is served by a panicked focus on terrorism.
“propaganda of non traditional lifestyle”

What the fuck does that even mean? How the fuck can you even say this bullshit?!

Fuck off from HN, homophobe.
I would not have let them in with out a warrant.
1. Government doesn't provide food
2. Government only provides SOME jobs

Even if we assume that ALL people who can no longer be employed because government disappeared cannot find jobs, it would only demonstrate that they can't work on jobs no one wants to pay for voluntarily. That is, if people wouldn't need cops anymore, because (let's imagine) there was no crime - no one would pay to private protection agencies and they would have to find something else to do. "Jobs" are not the desirable result, it's "doing something valuable" that's important.
Ask HN: Why don't we have laptops with adjustable screen height?
I travel a lot, and like a fairly compact and light laptop in the 14" range. My problem though, it's difficult to sit in a comfortable position. When your desk and chair are at the proper height, the screen is far too low. On my ultrabook, to line up with my eyes, the top of the screen needs to be another 15in higher. I end up having to hunch over and constantly look down to compensate. It seems like it would make sense to have a screen that can be raised up, and even forward, to give the illusion of a larger screen at the same time. Why are we not seeing these on the market? Anyone else have this problem or have any creative solutions?

I did a quick search and noticed some patents, and this laptop called the flybook that was released 7 years ago. It has a pivot on the base, and one where it connects to the display, so you can bring it forward at the same time while being able to properly adjust the angle. If I pickup my laptop and bring in it 7 or 8 inches closer, and the same length higher, it feels much more comfortable. Maybe it is a patent issue, but it seems like the major hardware manufacturers would work around it one way or another.

Flybook, 2006 - http://i.imgur.com/3nzQ1ZV.jpg
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Well, we could spend hours arguing over the Blitz, or we could concentrate on the other analogy I made which you presumably did get....
> Glenn Greenwald is a US citizen.

Who is forced to live abroad, due to DOMA.

(That may not be quite what OP was trying to say, but it's worth mentioning).
The question also arises: how effective is the mass surveillance recently revealed? Probably have to wait to see but would a group of intelligent news-aware persons with terrorist intent choose to plan or discuss their malevolent actions via electronic media?
Looks like they're already in damage control mode. My buddy just received this e-mail from james@fluu.com

http://pastebin.com/EVm8jH3s
Why not? The US has so many state and federal intelligence/terrorism/whatever agencies, I don't think those guys are just sitting in front of their XKeyscore :)
Or let them in to find bomb making material that's in every modern house and get sent to gitmo. Tough choice..