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Expressing deep thoughts or emotions in a foreign language can be very hard, especially if there are cultural differences. (try mediterranean cultures and Anglo-saxon ones, for instance).

However, we are referring to a business/technical discussion in this case. There are similarities to other types of discussions, but I think there are also specific rules that don't apply to, say, conversations between a Dutch and an Australian couple :)

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I was at a different telecom a couple years back and legal handed down a ruling that we couldn't keep things beyond two years, even though we were research instead of billing. Research was the last group at the company to have to delete all that stuff, and we only had space for five years anyway, and even that was stripped down to 10% of its original data. However the researchers felt very safe in assuming that since the government has all of the data reflected off the antenna base station switches through its own network, there's no way they're deleting anything.

It's weird that at&t had to give them that data, unless you assume that up til now they had access to the nsa's copy and now the justice department says they have to have their own.
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Interns? Work for nothing/benefits/nonmonetary compensation/experience?

(I'm not agreeing or disagreeing with the premise, just brainstorming)
If I like an article I see on HN, I'll go back and check a few of the previous entries on the blog. If there are a couple of similarly interesting articles in the last 10 entries or so, I'll add it to my RSS reader. If not, I'll just wait for the next interesting one to get upvoted into my sphere of visibility.
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oh, I thought this about nyan cat :(
What a colossal turn around from Apple's "Think Different" marketing slogan.

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

To quote Steve Jobs:

When you grow up you tend to get told the world is the way it is and your life is just to live your life inside the world. Try not to bash into the walls too much. Try to have a nice family life, have fun, save a little money.
That’s a very limited life. Life can be much broader once you discover one simple fact, and that is - everything around you that you call life, was made up by people that were no smarter than you. And you can change it, you can influence it, you can build your own things that other people can use.

The minute that you understand that you can poke life and actually something will, you know if you push in, something will pop out the other side, that you can change it, you can mold it. That’s maybe the most important thing. It’s to shake off this erroneous notion that life is there and you’re just gonna live in it, versus embrace it, change it, improve it, make your mark upon it.

I think that’s very important and however you learn that, once you learn it, you’ll want to change life and make it better, cause it’s kind of messed up, in a lot of ways. Once you learn that, you’ll never be the same again.

Would Jobs roll over in his grave knowing that Hipsters were embarrassed to pull out a device in a cafe because it's not the Hippest device?
Doesn't Stack-anything fill that niche already, along with a multitude of youtube videos and online tutorials that will walk you through the most common use cases, especially for software like photoshop?

In case that's an actual question, make a rectangular selection and check the "rounded corners" box at the top left. Select the gradient tool (You can see it by clicking the little paintbucked on the left toolbar for a while, it looks like a gradient). Klick somewhere and drag with the tool selected. And there's your rounded rectange with a shaded gradient inside.
I don't understand your last sentence. For most of what you list, nobody is forcing American parents to do this, they just choose to. Nothing stops you from letting your own children do things on their own.
I am not sure if anything he states is correct or not. I mean the people just stated that he got it wrong but couldnt anyone just say no thats not me I did contracting work for so and so.
Long term Sublime user here. Recently dove deep into Emacs due to a need for Common Lisp arising.

Sublime is an excellent text editor. Emacs is an ancient book of magic spells, with a strange, hoary culture surrounding it. It is phenomenally powerful, and also very, very weird.

I still use Sublime for 'editing text', but for a mixed workflow with compilation, git commands, REPLs and shell scripts? Emacs. I suspect once I finish rolling Emacs into the precise form I want it, I will more or less stop using other tools.
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BYOD. There is no corporate market for smartphones anymore.

Most execs want iPhones or similar.
C-h b - describe the key bindings for the current binding

C-h f - describe a function

C-h k - describe a key binding

The help system in Emacs is wonderful.
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I think it's become a cultural thing, unfortunately. I've spent the last few years seeing the world, and the difference in attitudes between the people of many other countries and Americans at home is striking. We've become a fear-based culture.

I have an anecdote from a month or two ago. My girlfriend--she's German--and I were in Boston's central park, where there's a wading pool for children. The place was extremely busy with families and children everywhere--and also crawling with police. As the mother next to us ushered their 9-year-old into the pool, the mother loudly told her, "If anyone touches you, you scream!" My girlfriend laughed out loud at the silliness of it (the child was within eyeshot, in a pool filled with other children and families, in broad daylight, and surrounded by police) and commented to me about how afraid Americans are of everything.

Now that's just an anecdote. But we're seeing bits and pieces of this everywhere. Parents fearful of pedophiles around every corner. TV commercials about new drugs, scaring us into thinking we have some painful disease. ("If you've had chicken pox, the shingles virus is already inside you..."). People like the Free-Range Parenting blogger getting harassed and hounded. The ballooning security and surveillance apparatus. The militarization of our police, and draconian and unfathomable laws and sentencing requirements. The TSA, which is pure theater in service of fear. Bits and pieces.

I find myself increasingly thinking that the fear-based environment in the US is not a place I would want my children to grow up in. It breeds a dangerous us-vs-them (the brown people, the druggies, your neighbor) mentality and leads to suspicion and hatred.

Unfortunately I don't know what to do about it other than move to a different, more emotionally stable country. Culture is hard to change and takes a generation.
1) High levels of security theater mean long entrance lines in front of (perceived) high value targets. Therefore instead of attacking the high value target the security theater is protecting, the line of people waiting to enter gets attacked. I get nervous waiting in lines knowing any terrorist who isn't an idiot has their sights on me.

This isn't going to happen because a bunch of people in line at an airport isn't a high-value target. I mean it would suck, of course, but 'bunch of people get blown up at an airport' isn't nearly as worrying as 'large plane falls/is steered out of the sky and into downtown.' It doesn't have much value to terrorists because it's not as scary and it won't generate vast numbers of photographs.

Yeah, it seems obvious, but it's wrong. Because killing people is not the whole goal on terrorism. Making people panic is. We have lots of mass shooting incidents in the US, but there's relatively little political will to change the gun culture here because people are rarely (ie never) confronted with pictures of the aftermath. Similarly, if a line of people at an airport were killed, all the public would see would be ambulances and body bags. They would feel sorry for you but would not actually care that much on an emotional level. What made the 9-11 attack so clever, and devastating, was that the attacks were staggered in time so that you had people flying planes into some of the world's most famous buildings on live television. The last time anyone saw large amounts of stuff getting blown up for real on TV was during the first Gulf War.

Yeah yeah I know what I'm told, but under actual attack I would have no desire to die so rather than shelter in place I'd GTFO as soon as the cattle herders start yelling.

We have enough school shootings that we have some data on this. If you are running around trying to escape then a) you're an easily noticeable target and b) you're probably going to be in the way of law enforcement firing back at the shooter. I don't find your approach any more sensible than suggestions that everyone should be armed and that the possibility of a gun battle will be a sufficient deterrent. Given the number of people who engage in shootouts with the police, this is plainly not the case. Looking to sneak out makes sense, departing in a disordered GTFO fashion is just panic.
Sometimes, being able to flip between two sections (comparing examples) or things a couple pages apart can be useful.

I remember having both PDF and hard copies of some RPG rulebooks, and it was almost always easier to find That Specific Thing in the paper book, once I was familiar enough with everything to use the contextual clues and page differences to find my way easily. Flipping between rules for {verb} and the list of valid {option} permutations is a similar case with tech books. Control-F helps, and so do bookmarks, but some things are easier with paper.
You can also find me complaining about Emacs less than a month ago on this very site, and refusing to use it. It took a lot to push past the completely alien keystroke syntax, including a lot of installing re-binds that change it substantially.
Learning is almost always worth it.
So assuming worst case scenario that the DEA actually was able to make a whole bunch of arrests based on this historical data, would we really want to pay to jail that many more inmates? What could be the point of this?
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Krass as fuck. Really deeply irritated by Google deciding to sully their product by associating with scumbags like Nestle:

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nestle#Controversy_and_criticism

Please excuse my sweariness but I am somewhat put out.

Also, KitKats taste like shit.
Manning provides access to e-books in multiple formats when you purchase a paper book.
They call non-smartphones 'feature phones' and unlike 3g network phones, they all have gps as part of the CDR. LTE has it as well, only 3g doesn't. 3g network stuff uses old PPoE because phone companies are lazy.
Jailbreak it and use PuTTY as your SSH terminal, it does a stellar job.
I checked for 1) buttons, 2) a lighter version. Found none of the above, so I'll stick to my Kindle 3.

I don't think Amazon appreciates how important buttons are for reading in non-perfect setups. Sure, if you're on your couch or by the swimming pool, you might not care. But try reading on a subway or a bus. Or with gloves on.
How long before we see it in Github Enterprise?
A fairly technical post I wrote the other day made it to #1 right away and stayed on the front page for a day or so, so I can't say that no technical posts stick around...

The post: http://www.stavros.io/posts/brilliant-or-insane-code/
Not every product that loses money qualifies as a loss leader.
I'm surprised you didn't get social media clicks for a few days afterwards.
While I can appreciate the full frugal/retro point of getting an old camera & enlarger for cheap, realize that in doing so there is therein no support for continuing the industry (however paltry). You're not going to get a new enlarger (short of an old never-opened box).

The buggy whip industry still exists, because there are people who in fact want new buggy whips. You can still get record players. Would be nice to see a remnant of the photo[chemical] industry continue, and these guys are doing exactly that by bridging how most photos are now taken with a way to use the old "expose & develop" model.
I've generally had the opposite experience. Carcassone is simpler, and a player can generally play competently on their first game.

Catan, on the other hand, I've found difficult to teach, despite the rules being fairly obvious to me, and there's lots of edge-case rules. (I had one friend get fairly pissed at me that I didn't describe, at the beginning of the game, the rule that a new settlement can break a longest road, which is a rule that hardly ever comes up)

Edit:
That said, Catan probably is a better gateway game into European-style board games in general, since it uses many of the same concepts.

Ticket to Ride would probably be my top pick now, though, for a gateway game.
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So there is a quid-pro-quo, even if there is no money changing hands.
Now it makes me wonder what the turnover rate will be once all those drug dealers learn that AT&T is bad for their business. I wonder if anyone is even measuring those stats to know.

This is by far not free and I really wonder what AT&T is getting out of the deal. They're devoting a small but significant amount of internal resources for what? Does the DEA overlook their transgressions or just the CEO? I have a hard time believing that AT&T would do this "out of the kindness of their hearts." I wonder now that this is exposed and the real costs of this project will come to bare if they'll keep it up. They certainly have enough money to throw at it, though.
I'm not sure how the passage you quoted is in disagreement with your comment.

Sure, WP7 was the first major phone operating system to go flat. However, that doesn't have anything to do with the fact that a major design difference between iOS and Android in the last year or two has been that Android is 'flat' and iOS is not.
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I found it easier to have a neutral accent (I'm Indian) rather than an "Americanized" accent (which let's face it, sounds really stupid/annoying if you've moved to the US after the age of 22, I'm looking at you'all pronouncing processor as "praacessor", sorry it sounds retarded). Over the years I've learnt to emphasize the "a's" and add typical American phrases in a conversation, but speaking slowly and clearly as a starting point helps. When I moved recently to the SF bay area I was surprised that people here still have strong foreign accents and most people understand what they're saying (well, at least they pretend to). I initially had problems understanding people but I'm getting better over time. I always get a quizzical look when I tell people I'm from India and they ask me why my English is so good? I always assumed Indian people's English was average-good, maybe it just the accent.
No. The lowest setting is still slightly lit: http://www.amazon.com/forum/kindle/ref=cm_cd_pg_pg1?_encodin...
Again, I'm not a native speaker of English, but the obvious way to ask you for the reasons that make you angry is to ask you: "Why are you so angry?" I'm still learning English and would appreciate if you would be kind and teach me an alternative way to ask that question.
You're confusing semantic markup for using <divs> for layout.

In < IE8 there's loads of <div class="clearfix"> around because display:inline-block wasn't supported.
Better than most in the states, for that matter :p
I believe they already released most of the interface performance optimizations in 4.3. I would be happy to see more though.
I'd go with Lemon Drop.
In my opinion, Carcassone is generally simpler and friendlier.

The rules are fairly quick to pick up (although, as another commenter mentioned, scoring at the end can be a bit tedious).

Also, in a couple playgroups I've seen, Settler's of Catan can have as much, if not more, conflict than Monopoly. In Carcassone, you can't really take very aggressive action against other players.
I see that now, but when I first looked I thought somehow I had been tricked!
If you count fishing and crabbing, and possibly ferrying, I would be unsurprised in the slightest.
Just for your note - Yahoo decreased the offer to $700-$800 million after few days and that was one of the reasons why Zuck declined their offer.
I have been waiting for something like this for a long time. The only problem is that it is only for Kindle books. I would like a PDF/ePUB for any paper copy book I buy even if its a 5 dollar surcharge that is much better than buying the same book 2 separate times on different media (paper and ebook).

Honestly I would like this to be the default option for all paper books I buy, even if the costs get factored in to the buying price. If I can take my CDs I purchased and encode them into MP3 and use them on my e-device of choice then why cant a similar model be used for paper media.
Nope, Fox didn't pay. Although I met Steve Forbes in the Green Room.
They were non fiction intelligences. Also they were so afraid of the upcoming doom so they locked themselves in a blackhole and lost track of time outside. (U.S. see the resemblence?). But of course some matters are mind tingling :-) This can't soil his brilliance.
Websites differ in their basic nature, and one size does not fit all. Roughly speaking, websites that are document-like (primarily consumption-oriented) should probably be progressively enhanced; websites that are tool-like probably should not (interaction oriented, like gmail, analytics apps, other saas). Websites that fall in the middle will have to carefully consider the user experience benefits and the available technical/operational resources.

The upside is that progressive enhancement can refer to a spectrum of techniques. Deliver only above-the-fold content as HTML, inline your CSS/JS, inline the initial JSON data, omit <form> POST support, etc. Two templating systems do not need to be supported. It's a straightforward technical problem to apply JS templates server-side (and I'm speaking as a boring old .NET developer--Nustache and Edge.js come to mind).

Btw, another benefit of progressive enhancement can be SEO.
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FWIW, as far as we can tell this account was part of a long-running Microsoft astroturfing campaign. You can never be 100% sure of these things, but astroturfers, like spammers, leave trails they don't realize they're leaving.
Also the phrase "the war is over" is true until it is not.

"The war was over" for online search before Google entered in the game.

The war was over for mp3 players until the ipod came out.

The war was over for Apple back in 98.

The war was over for internet browsers until Chrome came out.
> There's one notable area where Microsoft has competed and thrived: Microsoft does quite well on the Mac platform

I wouldn't call it a level playing field. They've had a lot of time to make inroads into the market by not documenting the office file formats for as long as possible, so people had no choice but to buy their software.

The formats are documented now, but it's very hard for the competition to get people to switch from a product they are already comfortable with.
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GitHub's 2FA just uses the industry standard TOTP like a ton of other places. You can use Google Authenticator, Authy, etc.
Great overview of some packages I haven't heard of before. Bravo.
For those that have the original, does it have a black background option? I find that in the dark the white screen hurts to read after a while (iPad Mini) so I switch between dark and light for night/dim and day outside.
Show HN: SmartRecords, a library for creating PDF reports out of .NET objects.
Doesn't Japan have a huge variety of all sorts of food and drink, in general? Something about the huge amount of vending machines, and needing to grab attention with something different?
What fragmentation? I currently use 2FA on about 6 different sites. They all support Google Authenticator, so I only have one app on my phone.
My first thought was continuing the anti-fragmentation push with more Play Services stuff. I can definitely see an optimisation push though, the spec wars are getting ridiculous and it's still worthy of mention in a review that a phone doesn't lag.
I think it's great: you get to see all these obscure languages and how similar they are to languages you do know.
Just read article in depth and found two more significant "features". First one - database build by AT&T can identify if target individual uses multiple phones (So if say I was engineer Joe and wanted to get sell private cell number(s) for Angelina Jolie how much would you pay?). Second - they can identify if you switched to a new number. Even if you threw out your phone. (So speaking of numbers, how much would you pay for a yearly subscription previously offered 'product'). Seriously if AT&T doing this, there is no reason to believe that other providers do not.
I am turning on Amazon, it just feels fundamentally unfair that they destroyed the brick and mortar book industry precisely because they operate on the principal of never having to turn a profit. Its almost a monopolist abuse of the market...
I would also suggest that any iOS users move away from Google Authenticator and towards Authy or another solution. Google Auth in iOS7 has been deleting labels, and even worse, deleting tokens, for many users. The app hasn't been updated since 2011 and there's been no word from Google on an upcoming update to fix the issue. With iOS7's launch/announcement next week, I suggest looking into a new TOTP app (like Authy) before upgrading.
Apart from Nook, is there any other "glowing" alternative with buttons? Kobo Glo doesn't have them either AFAIK...
I need to press Escape to get to the next question? Worst UI ever.
That might have a market.

(http://www.theblogismine.com/2010/05/30/eroll-concept-unroll...)

(http://www.quora.com/eBook-Readers/Why-did-the-first-rollabl...) (http://www.brighthand.com/default.asp?newsID=2651) (http://www.zdnet.com/blog/mobile-gadgeteer/mwc08-hands-on-wi...)

I also remember a cylinder with a few lines of text. As you turned the cylinder the text would scroll. Not sure if that ever got beyond the CGI prototype stage.
It's just as restrictive as any commercial license, except that instead of being prohibited from releasing the source, you are required to do so.

That is not 'free to do whatever you want'.
iPhone is trademarked in Brazil to another company called Gradiente. They even recently launched a new version of their iPhone running Android.

http://www.gradiente.com.br/smartphone-linha-g-gradiente-iph...
What makes you think it isn't hard?
Looks like the creators are on Twitter @GhettoTracker
Meanwhile at Willy Wonka's...

"Oompa Loompa Stop Whipping Us, He's Not Sleeping He's Overworked"
Peter Brabeck (then CEO of Nestlé) on free drinking water: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qyAzxmN2s0w

I don't see why his viewpoint causes so much controversy - from an entepreneurial standpoint, which should be welcomed here - you can't deny him credit for rationality.
Kit Kat is also a famous sex club in Berlin nightlife.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KitKatClub
AppleOutsider has a better-articulated article with a similar viewpoint.

http://www.appleoutsider.com/2013/09/02/nokia2/
You are completely right. It is the same with giving discounts on products or services, you devaluate what you are providing.

I wouldn't even know where to get started on building an OS, so I think this is pretty awesome.

Some 'for dummies' step by steps on getting this to run would be great :).
Skyscraper melts a car.
TOTP is standardized. http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6238
I would assume that the DEA is paying AT&T whatever they ask, so it's hardly charity. (I wonder if AT&T tacks on mystery fees to the government like they do with consumers.)