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Sounds like he committed a crime (fraud). Be careful with that tactic.
> keepassx (the alpha compatible with keepass2.x)

A bit OT, but I'm guessing you're using keepassx for non-Windows OS? Is there a benefit to it compared to simply using keepass with Mono?
I know Musk is worshipped by the Hacker News crowd (and rightly so) but as with all things related to technology it's really hard to make predictions considering the fact that there could be a "black swan" type breakthrough or accidental discovery that completely changes everything.
Stupid C++ Tricks: do/while(0) and C4127
Who Owns Google’S Neighboring Domains?
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Hmm, this can be used as a weapon of mass destruction?
About as reasonable as getting 9 women to make a baby in 1 month. This would only be true if those 6 executives were doing 4x the work of the executies at Costco. Conservatively, they might be doing 1.5x or even 2x the work. But I doubt they are putting in 160 hours a week.
Yes I agree. I did see something very interesting a couple months ago about favorable temperatures in subterranean donuts near the Mercury poles. Regardless, Moon and Mercury are both "high gravity" - L4/L5 or cis-lunar asteroid stations are clearly the way to go. Only things the moon is good for that asteroids aren't better for is He3 and astronomy.
Sure, there's a lot of noise in there. What I mean is that given enough endorsements, you kind of tend to get most endorsements in the skills you actually work with. It does not say much about how well you perform in those, but for searching out potential candidates, I imagine that it's fairly accurate.
How to activate fullscreen ? The video is always in a frame with the chat and navigation bar etc.
Android's Hugo Barra leaves Google
Voting link?

http://www.ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-27/?action=preview...

I found it on the LD site, but others might not.

Lovely Perlin? How how do you do the collisions exactly?
http://blog.webmproject.org/2013/03/vp8-and-mpeg-la.html
Exceptional exception handling
Awoid: http://www.awoid.com/?utm_source=hn

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Why is Facebook blue? The science behind colors
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I use the Android app of this: http://hn.premii.com

It summarises the content so you don't have to even visit Space.com. Problem solved.
This is my favorite so far - so insane. Plus, Carl Sagan!
But didn't the article note that the salacious details were irrelevant immediately after introducing them?

And if the suggestion is that perhaps personal issues nevertheless were a factor, then they still could have done without most of that gossipy detail.

It's distasteful, no excuses.
He's not exactly wrong but "it's ridiculous" is never a good gauge of what's feasible. Most of what we use on a daily basis is pretty ridiculous if looked at from the right perspective.

And while I don't have time right now for a complete rebuttal to Musk's criticisms I will point out that he's being somewhat of a hypocrite here. He's complaining about photon to electron to photon to electron conversion, but consider what might be his ideal: ground based solar power and electric cars. The only reasonable way to make that work is through photon to electron to battery to electron to battery to electron systems, which are every bit as ridiculous and ineffecient as what he is complaining about.
I'd rather have a license violator than American tech companies selling my personal information or making it freely available to their government.
Researcher Remotely Operates Colleague's Brain Over The Internet
The minimal wage that is mostly what is paid in WalMart and is about $15,000 a year. Let's put it in historical perspective. In 1969 the minimal wage was $1.60. And in 1969 the price of ounce of silver was about $1.70.

In other words 40 years ago the minimal wage in the USA was about $22 USD using today's silver price as an inflation indicator. Using 2013 data 22.00 USD is on par with average American hourly pay. This what was the minimal wage of 1969 became an average pay in 2013. So if you ever wonder why your grandad working single simple job could support his family with stay at home wife, 3 or 4 kids, have vacation house and literally no debt – that's why. The average pay is 3 times lower today than it was 40 years ago when the real money – gold and silver – are used as an indicator. Of course some will point out to believe that gold and silver prices are in the bubble territory and that's why my numbers don't make any sense.

The problem with that reasoning is that gold is not experiencing bubble pricing. How do I know that? Because gold mining cost is at $1,200 with gold price merely covering it at $1,400. Bubbles are experienced in assets that sell by multiples of their real price, not the ones that are sold basically at the production cost. The staggering truth is that the current gold price simply reflects the high cost of living in the US today. The only correct conclusion seems to be that an average American worker is as poor today as minimal wage worker was 40 years ago.

No wonder fast-food strikes set for cities nationwide: http://www.seattlepi.com/news/us/article/Fast-food-strikes-s...
What makes you think the NYTimes isn't also biased?
Uh, is it that common, really? Where do the companies they get his number?

I don't live in the UK but I get maybe one unsolicited call per year.

I don't know why really: I'm not on any do not call lists or anything. When I get that yearly-in-the-average call of mine, I just ask if they're selling something and then tell them I never buy anything from a phone marketer which kind of leaves them hanging and soon hanging up.
These days, not much, 5-10%. Most VMs "cheat" and are effectively paravirtualized (e.g. using guest additions that talk to the hypervisor directly).
Any reason Not to run Linux in a VM all the time?
http://www.ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-27/?action=preview...
Using the Intel C++ Compiler with Microsoft Visual Studio 2012
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Woman loses "Schedule 7" terrorism case, the law used against David Miranda
Previous discussion on HN:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6293576
A classic: Fundamental key bindings in Emacs
We have this in the US, but companies use it to find people to call and hope you don't actually report them.
I call it inexact because you can't use the classical way of proving theories right or wrong. There's no mathematical calculations you can do to figure out all the implications of that theory. The theories are based on observations of human behavior and they most likely do not cover all edge cases they are however the best we got at the moment in describing human behavior and motivations.

If this were to happen in physics we'd call it it a failed or incomplete theory.
This pay structure makes sense to me. If I'm calling someone's mobile and don't necessarily expect them to be in another country: it would be crazy to be slapped with a massive charge for that call. Makes far more sense for the receiver to make up the difference.
German Aldis offer good customer experience and the assorment of goods has come close to premium supermarkets in affluent areas, giving the old nickname "Feinkost Albrecht" a new meaning.

At the same time, they have recently been getting their share of criticism for how they pay and treat their workers. Seems like they're still well avove Lidl, but not a prime example any more.
I was thinking about the EIS scheme. There's some explanation here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enterprise_Investment_Scheme

I believe the most important part is this:

If EIS shares are disposed of at any time at a loss, such loss can be set against the investor's capital gains or his income in the year of disposal.

So basically, if you take a loss, you can deduct it against any other gains you have.
I don't receive 30 a month as the guy in this article does, but absolutely get one or two a week (usually from recruiters or people "from Microsoft" who've spotted an issue with my computer).
No CMYK is required. There is black and a spotcolor. Any company worth their salt alo carries a PMS (or Pantone) spotcolor. Example KLM PMS 299 see http://hansstol.totaldesign.nl/nl/klm.html

This means the tickets could be pre-printed with one spotcolor and have the variable info thermo-printed on that. (The design features variable info such as destination in color. That is not possible. Variable white text inside the color isn't possible as well because the color has to be pre-printed).

Nice design. With just a little tweaks it would work well, me thinks.
If paying your employees is 'charity' what the hell do you call stock dividends?
AeroFS is a filesync clone that operates without any central storage cloud, but you still need to make an account that connects to their central server.

This means they control your access to the syncing your own files.

BitTorrent Sync lets me do the same thing, but under my own control. Only thing missing there is being able to choose your own tracker.
Its slow?
What about countries that get very little sunshine through winter season, scandinavian countries for example?
Can anyone with experience on this share what are their preferred (http) Go deployment option?
Build, test and deploy a Go application to Heroku
I've used that app before and it isn't what I needed. I want to be able to add them myself...through the API.
He didn't predict anything- he analyzed the existing technology and infrastructure to conclude that the cost-to-benefit ration was too high. His argument stands until a 'black swan' type breakthrough occurs, and by its very nature there is no guarantee that will happen.
Themes for Chrome Developer Tools
I enjoyed this a lot. Thanks!
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I built a leaderboard application for teams that lets you track your & your team's progress on various "scorable" services such as HN(karma), project euler (problems solved), spoj(score), stackexchange(points) and lots other services. It was meant to be used as a game-board for all of us, so we can track everyone.

Its open-sourced at github.com/sdslabs/leaderboard and uses github organizations for authentication (anyone in your org can login).
Show HN: What we did to understand Social Media Audience
He is mocking the ongoing attempts by companies in the US to double bill communications.
android has WTF - What a terrible Failure
I have a profile now. ;)

I'm going to continue working on my game and release a version for Android, and probably iOS, at some point. I'd welcome any feedback. I'm aware that at the very least it needs sound, level transitions, instructions and a lot of work on the visuals. I'm also looking into ways to expand the game and add variation by introducing new or alternative enemies to the mix.
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Are there other kinds of phones?
With a properly designed container, it should (and that's actually a feature, else you're much more vulnerable to traffic analysis). That's a tradeoff between security and convenience, IMHO.
Kevin Robert Elz: Programmer who pioneered online text commentary for cricket
Just theoretically:
Why shouldn't we want our postal services to just be a dumb pipe? Isn't it basically a slow internet?
Except then you consider the alternatives :-/

photon to electron in space to photon' to electron on ground ≃ photon to electron on ground

photon to electron (on ground) to battery (filling station) to electron to battery (car) to electron to kinematics VS raw oil (limited on this very planet) to petrol to kinematics

Also not considering resistance loss and petrol transportation. A little bit more complicated :)
Surface area is at an even higher premium in space. One house > one satellite.
Digging into it some more, it looks like I was wrong.

The studies use 2.45Ghz, which is also used in most microwave ovens.

The actual offsetting design element is that energy is received over a large area -- 10km^2 -- so that at any one point the radiation that a human or other living creature would receive would be below the safe threshold.

Goddamit I hate being so confidently wrong.
You can also use it as propellant for nuclear thermal rockets. You can't lift off from Earth on one, but the Moon is an easier problem.
Inversion

http://www.ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-27/?action=preview...
I reckon I might have read that book too. Certainly the art rings some bells.
> I call it inexact because you can't use the classical way of proving theories right or wrong.

If you cannot clearly and empirically prove a theory wrong (in principle), it is not science. Falsifiability is required for science and scientific theories. This doesn't mean all scientific theories are false, it means all scientific theories must not fail a comparison with reality.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientific_theory

Quote: "The strength of a scientific theory is related to the diversity of phenomena it can explain, which is measured by its ability to make falsifiable predictions with respect to those phenomena."

On that basis, psychology is not a science.

> If this were to happen in physics we'd call it it a failed or incomplete theory.

If this were to happen in physics, people would abandon it, as they abandoned astrology and alchemy.
It's not fair at all in Britain. The whole "Didldidi" Mitchell & Webb snobbishness conceals the fact that Aldi's food is generally of better quality and cheaper than Tesco's or Asda's.

It doesn't tend to be as good as Sainsbury's, and of course it doesn't compete with M&S or Waitrose, but Aldi is the only store which seems to bring both decent jobs and affordable essentials to poorer communities. I have a massive soft spot for Aldi.

I've actually talked about them on HN before, embarrassingly.

Probably mainland Europe (esp. France) has better options, I'm sure.
Actually, this makes a lot of sense, and I don't see why the use of premium numbers should be restricted. Why not make it part of a business model?

I should be able to get a number that costs extra to call. My time is valuable and anyone calling me should think twice whether the call is worth his money. And I don't mean just telemarketers — anyone. Getting my immediate attention should not be free or cheap, it should be expensive.

I am willing to share profits with my telco. I think telcos should make this a standard offering and let any number be switched to a premium one, with cost per minute set by the user. To avoid unexpected charges and subsequent problems they should play a recording while connecting (before actually charging for the connection), warning about the costs and explaining that holding will ring my phone and start accumulating charges.

If there was a telco offering that kind of service, I'd switch in a heartbeat.
I've built PlaceUnit. I'm sole developer/designer.

http://www.placeunit.com

http://AppStore.com/placeunit

It's an app that lets anyone build a mini-responsive website entirely from their iPhone/iPad.

I knew someone who needed a new site. So instead of giving him a fish, I got him a fishing rod.. :)
Skype is developing 3D video but is limited by number of 3D devices users have
The thing is that in the time when solar orbital was first discussed, solar panels sucked and oil was super-expensive. I think the O'Neill designs were based on concentrating mirrors and turbines. He claimed it could pay for itself within a standard utility company's financial planning horizon of 30 years.

And then oil prices went back to normal.

The real conceptual competitor at the time -- in fact, it's still the real competitor -- is plain old fission.
This is actually pretty smart. Love the idea. I think I am going to give this a shot soon.
Build a scaleable startup on a Budget #Googlecampus with Ubuntu
I built a flickr client app for iOS. I have two flickr client app as my project to learn building iOS app since 2010. and This is my latest iOS app. You can see my own improvement between this two application. nearly three years apart.

[1] http://pureflickr.com

[2] https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/pure-for-flickr/id660272928?...

[3] https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/potretr-flickr-photos-browse...
The actual source, "Remote detection of magmatic water in Bullialdus Crater on the Moon":

http://www.nature.com/ngeo/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/ngeo19...
How Value-Based Pricing Will Make Clients Beg You to Work for Them
Just did some research and it looks like you are right. I learned both rules as a kid at once and didn't realize the distinction.
The popular packages are properly described as "GNU/Linux." That we deem their combination to be an operating system is a matter of convention.

When an Emacs user greps from Emacs why is this less blessed than my grepping from Bash? Is it considered blasphemy against vi?

Yes, I see that Bash is not the OS and vi is not the OS and neither of course is grep, for the OS is the turtle upon which these things rest and it is turtles all the way down until you get to microcode. Just because someone calls themselves "a computer scientist" it does not make their abstractions are any less metaphysical.

It is when we use an human centered definition of "operating system" rather than a machine centered one that Emacs can be seen in a different light. It is not that either group is failing to develop a scientific model. It is that each model has orthogonal metrics.
Wow I thought mitmproxy looked rough until I saw tcpdump/ngrep/awk? They both work of course but neither look especially easy to use.

We've been using http://www.charlesproxy.com/ for years, great tool (cheap albeit not free)
There is probably an other reason, the opposite of why Ford paid higher wages "so employees can afford his cars".

Well, Wallmart employees are so poor they are forced to shop at Wallmart. If they got higher wages, they would probably shop at Trader's Joe or Wholefoods.

By keeping poor people poor, they actually increase their customer base.
> My Linux distro is hosted in VirtualBox with Windows as host, and I quite like it that way, snapshots are incredibly useful.

Take the plunge. Run a Linux host and Windows in a VM. That way you'll be ready for Microsoft's upcoming collapse. :)

I have Windows installed in a VirtualBox VM on this Linux machine, but as time passes I find fewer and fewer reasons to launch it.
On cell phones. This is for the same reason as you have to pay for receiving calls while roaming internationally on cell phones - basically the difference is a historical fluke based on numbering plans and how billing are done for landline calls.

US local calls don't have per-minute changes. And cell phone numbering is not using a separate number sequence as in most other countries (e.g. in UK all cellphone numbers start 07x where x is 4 or above, so everyone knows when calling a cellphone).

Because of that, it'd be unreasonable to charge callers for cellphone calls, as people don't have an easy way of knowing if they're making a local landline call or calling someone on a cellphone that's potentially at the other side of the country, or abroad.

Similarly for international roaming we pay to receive in Europe too, as the caller don't know if the cellphone is abroad. Except caller pays whatever their plan would normally charge if the phone was in the country its numbering plan indicates, and the roaming charges covers the rest.
For JS heavy sites, I've found proxying the traffic through Fiddler is the easiest way to discover the API end points I need to hit.
It would be nice if the article had some absolute minimal details on how about 10 terrawatts of power[1] is going to be beamed down, and if that's a no brainer, over what area is it going to be beamed down.

[1] Based on energy consumption figures from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_energy_consumption
> and that double conversion is going to get you back to where you started, basically

That feels overly simplistic. What are the actual losses?
This. WalMart basically receives a huge public subsidy to underpay their employees in the form of welfare costs. Minimum wage and benefit laws try and shift those costs back to the employer.
It depends on which type of games you're talking about.

AAA game engines are still all about performance and tight memory budgets due to the nature of the platforms they're developing on - consoles and PCs.
Hence the aversion to garbage collected languages, although higher level languages usually make it in the engines as scripting languages for game logic: UnrealScript for UDK, C# and UnityScript for Unity, Lua for CryEngine...
The industry is traditionally oriented towards C++ and imperative / OO languages, but there's a lot of potential for functional languages in the "embedded scripting" area. In his 2013 QuakeCon keynote [1], John Carmack talks a bit about his experience with functional languages, and how, for example, Scheme could be an ideal candidate as an embedded scripting language.

As far as smaller teams are concerned, and especially indie development, there is a lot of potential for OCaml, Clojure and other functional languages. Many mobile and indie dev teams already use a heck lot of C#, Python, Java and other specialized tools like Haxe, ActionScript. But all these languages have well liked and mature frameworks geared towards game development (XNA / MonoGame, PyGame, OpenFL, libgdx, ...), which is maybe what Clojure and OCaml are missing right now.

[1] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1PhArSujR_A
I'm building general-purpose spaced-repetition (flashcard) software for the browser:

http://cardflashapp.com

It started with me wanting to learn Chinese characters and being annoyed at Anki's UI/UX (Oddly I also "accidentally" learned all US state capitals and World capitals while debugging the thing).

It's Meteor + Heroku + AWS S3 (user card review data via client-side signed uploads)
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I second that. Be clear who you are and that you are a marketplace and not asking for transaction fees.
Please leave that company. Ugh
Looks amazing, but I'm wondering about WASD quality. Any opinions?
In bookkeeping, no, but in looking for opportunities for efficiencies, it's pretty relevant.

Say, you've got a single employee on a $60k salary moving goods worth $10mm, but at a razor thin margin, so your profit on the goods is $100k, and your net profit is $40k. If you want to increase your net profit, it would probably be easier and yield a bigger return to see if you can do something about your $9.9mm product expense than your $60k salary expense.
Docker: Running Docker Containers Inside Vortex
I built something to make this easier:

http://www.persowna.net

Just drop a JSON file on your server and you're your own identity provider.
Papa
It's more common in enterprise-y settings, since you don't have to pay them as much. Hire a few senior people to do the heavy lifting and stick all the maintenance programming stuff on the others.
How do you plan to compute that based on studies? If you could implement a nice way to do that based on actual study results it would be super interesting. As in not a bunch of hard-corded rules. Perhaps it could somehow be crowd-sourced. Not sure if there'll be enough people for that tho.

Also there should be a way to input what you actually it so it can self-adjust based on what you're actually doing rather than what you'd ideally be doing. As in "okay we can see that you don't really eat X so let's try Y".
But I guess then you'd loose 95% of potential users cause that's a pain to do.

There was this mental health company that would suggest the right medication based on statistics. Supposedly it was much more accurate than regular diagnoses that you'd get from a doctor. I can't find it thought ;C