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Aaron Rodgers Surprises Kids at Miller Park
Aaron Rodgers and David Gruber team up for a new season of itsAaron.com. In the first of a three episode season, Aaron visits with Antwan and Freddie, two kids who have benefited from Operation DREAM. See who hits it out of the park in this exciting new video!
At this point, your best bet, by far, is simply to host your own.
The brilliance of this move is that Uber is more high end than cabs. A lot of players like arriving in style, which leads to the returning home drunk. With Uber, you can arrive in a town car. If I were Uber, I'd make a big deal about the NFL app getting priority on the nicest cars in their fleet to try and appeal to this.
You're so eager to defend renewables you're projecting opinions you want me to have, on me.

What I mean is I don't like how anything that is grouped into "renewables" is considered to be equally perfect. Like, "It's not fossil fuels so it's the holy grail". Nevermind that hydro backs up rivers and solar panels require rare earth metals. This sort of mindset, I figure, will hamper our ability to choose the best renewables. I'm not saying we should stick with fossil fuels.
Not at all. It is perfectly possible to go from a big freaking desktop app (BFDA) and rewrite it, piecemeal, to be a single page web app.

The way you do that is that you first, piece by piece, split the BFDA into multiple layers, then you make it client-server, split the data-storage into its own server, split the gui of, split the business logic of. Then you rewrite the parts that request stuff for the client into using JSON and rest, then all you have to do is to port the (hopefully) tiny amount of gui interface the user needs to Javascript and the entire app still works.

Is it easy? No. Does it waste some work? Yes.
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Actually not that good of a demo. Egg white coagulates at around 65 degrees centigrade, yolk at around 70. On a sunny day, you can easily reach those temperatures without using a mirror to intensify sunlight.

[That temperature difference makes it 'easy' to hard-boil an egg while keeping the yolk fluid. Photos at http://www.douglasbaldwin.com/sous-vide.html#Figure_4.1, some science at http://www.sousvidedash.com/2011/12/the-perfect-fast-cook-so... (quote: "It’s interesting because it illustrates just how critical it is to accurately measure your eggs for this technique. I use a plastic pocket caliper to measure mine.")]
It is if you tar up the directory and hand that to them.
Fast forward twenty years on her Github account - I think I would get an odd impression of her if I saw "Joined on [the day she was born]". Same goes for any site that prominently displays the sign up date as a badge of honor...
You have a non-extremist link that shows Gadaffi to be a democratic humanitarian? :-)

Ahh, I forgot... all the large media with the best reputation (NY Times, Washington Post, BBC, etc) are in on the conspiracy!

The only countries supporting the horrible regimes of Libya and Syria are non-democratic (let's face it, Putin can't lose an election). Are you proud of the company?
Perhaps, but I think the fact that it's such a boilerplate-oriented language, requiring explicit type declarations, arguments, and returns, and lacking lambda expressions, it really discourages cleverness and subtlety, making it easier to read than dynamic and functional languages. It also lacks the pointer arithmetic, bit shifting, and operator overloading of C/C++ that make those languages so difficult to read. Java may be repetitive, verbose, and dumbed-down, but that definitely keeps it from being a "write-only" language.

I do agree that Go is a good compromise, very readable but with less boilerplate, and probably an improvement on the Java paradigm, but the lack of generic data structures makes it kind of hard to use Go as a Java replacement.
this one also does..
I don't defend the Syrian government. Is it not possible to say that there is not yet any compelling evidence about who used weapons in Ghouta and what those weapons were without supporting the Syrian government? And likewise to state that the goals of the US are not humanitarian?

And of course there is a conspiracy: These are allies acting for substantial mutual benefit just as Iran, Russia and China are conspiring. We saw similar concerted misinformation in Iraq and Libya, both of which are much worse off after their humanitarian-bombardment.

> Doctors without borders et al have talked about large scale gas attacks.

DWB do not have members in the area. They received second hand reports of fairly non-specific symptoms that they said would be consistent with a chemical attack. Moreover, they were adamant that they could not determine who launched the attack.

> The insurgents just don't have much artillery around Damascus

I know nothing about artillery positions but I as far as I know a method of delivery has not been established.
> Drag and drop is universally a "cut and paste" operation.

It changes to "copy and paste" if you keep the Ctrl key pressed. The cursor changes and adds a plus sign to indicate this.

So it is flexible in that regard.
Uber is an incredible service. Perhaps a system within a bar/clubs POS system would be most helpful. If your bill is over X amount then the bartender could suggest a Uber for you or have the ability to charge a Uber to your bill if you agreed. Just a thought. Also Instead of Uber preventing NFL players driving drunk. Uber should prevent players driving after games who have suffered concussions or big hits.
Calling a cab is a nightmare, at least in San Francisco, prior to Uber.

This seems to be the central issue with Uber- it has solved a San Francisco problem, and is now trying to apply the same solution everywhere.

There are a great many cities (including NFL franchise cities) where getting a cab is far from difficult. Yet players still drink and drive.
This seems like something Apple would want to patent. I wouldn't be surprised if we saw some new Apple Vs. Android, Apple Vs. Mozilla lawsuit about "background fetching".
iOS will actually disable these features if the battery is getting low.

Like Battery Saver?

http://www.windowsphone.com/en-us/how-to/wp8/basics/battery-...
Somehow I doubt the car service the NFL union already had set up involved the player getting in a yellow cab.
No, both Apple and Google take 30%.
NFL players are some of the highest-paid in any profession in the world, most of which could rent a limo for the entirety of the night whenever they go out and it wouldn't be a drop in the bucket against their earnings. But, they don't...

NFL is actually probably the least player-lucrative major sport franchise, due to the relatively low number of games (compared to NBA and MLB) and high roster size. Minimum rookie salary is around $300,000, which sounds like a lot until you realize players are basically forced into retirement after less than ten years, face tremendous workplace risks, and don't get easily translatable skills.

There's a reason you hear so many stories about homeless former pro athletes, and its not because they're dumb jocks: the system isn't exactly tailored around long-term fiscal viability.
Yeah, we post a fair amount of high level development stuff on wonderstruckgames.com
One more point of outreach for the players. I'm sure some will use it.
What's really funny is how right you are, and all the comments made in response to you are proving that the reality distortion field is still in effect post-Jobs. When a competitor does it and Apple says they won't, it's the worst thing in the world. Once the competitor proves its worth and Apple does it, it's now the best thing ever (see xutopia). If you're right but with one hint of an arguable point, there's always some detail that means you're wrong and Apple is right (see simonh and nsxwolf). And if you're indisputably right, you're a fanboy whiner (see epo).

No one can possibly imagine that there could be an alternative (but still correct) choice if that wasn't the choice they themselves made.
That's exactly what's wrong with the catholic church. But there are still faithful people around, only they aren't mainstream for obvious reasons...
is 2013, you would think Django and Rails would be part of this. PHP already has a ton of support on the web.
How to Find and Maintain Mentoring Relationships
The latest version has a scale by default. Turn on auto updates in the Play Store or see if you have a manual update ready for Maps.
What do you call the iPad mini? ciel(7.9) inch tablet?
I agree that society will adapt, but I wonder what will happen when people from different generations compete for the same jobs. To some extent we're beginning to see this with various hand-wringing about millennials.
Right. But most developers aren't server admins and don't want to be.

I press a few buttons and a server is up and ready! :)
Woman: "Tone policing is destroying communication"

Hacker News: "Don't you dare use that tone with us!"
Emoji are more common than hyphens
It's part of the plan. We're working together with people like Chad Fowler to bring that to life. But this is the initial launch with a smaller offering for now.
Two vendors dominate enterprise IP video conferencing
There are a great many cities (including NFL franchise cities) where getting a cab is far from difficult.

Are there? In my experience, NYC is the only city where getting a cab is easy – and even there it's only easy in one borough.

edit: Chicago is the only one I can think of that comes close, but it's still only easy to get a cab there in a limited few neighborhoods.
Alternatives to Amazon.com (for electronics)
I love Amazon. The shopping experience is great. Product description and reviews are very good resources. Prices are, to say the least, competitive. The customer service is very good, if you bought "ships from and sold by Amazon.com".

I do most of my shopping there. And fairly or unfairly, it worries me. I make it a point to use shopping alternatives when I find ones that are equally good. Let me share two of my favorite alternatives:

1. Frys: They match Amazon's prices. I wish more retailers did this.

2. Newegg.com: Every bit as good IMO. I find their product reviews more useful than Amazon's and I can't say this for any other retailer.

Please share in comments if you know of other alternatives.

This post is partly inspired by comments on recent HN posts, where people expressed similar concerns about Amazon becoming too powerful an entity.

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Being actively worked on! :)
I think this is a rage post against something Mac but I'm not following what it is in response to?
That seems to me to be a terrible and Byzantine solution to a very easily resolved problem. So easily resolved in fact that I question whether this is really the reason why or are you harvesting data for some other purpose?

I too never use my facebook or twitter logins for anything unless it's absolutely critical.

It sounds like it could be fun otherwise.
Yeah, my favorite definition of "legacy code" is "code that has poor test coverage."

The regression test suite should literally implement all of the business requirements, and then the two become the same thing (if there's no test for it, it's not a requirement, and vice versa), so then you can work on the codebase with confidence, and it's therefore not legacy code, no matter how old it is or what old school language it's written in.
> This is a good article, but I think it leaves out an important option, which is "do nothing."

I don't see how "do nothing" is a good option. If the co-linearity between two variables is high enough, then the linear regression equation will not have a solution at all. But this is an edge case. The more common problem with co-linearity is that it leads to unstable regression parameters. For example, all variables in a dataset could have very high, positive correlation, but one of the regression parameters could come out as a negative number due to co-linearity (which would counter-intuitive). If you are basing decisions on the regression parameters then it could lead to some very silly decisions. Moreover, if you resample the data and re-fit the regression model, you could get very different regression parameters (i.e. the parameters will be unstable). Stability of the parameters over time (or over different training sets) is one of the most important properties of a good model.

To see why "do nothing" is not a logical option, you can imagine that your data points are plotted within a 3-dimensional cube (1 response variable, and 2 predictor variables). If the data is co-linear, then your data points will lie along a straight line that cuts across the diagonal of the cube. If you "do nothing," then it is directly equivalent to trying to fit a PLANE through a LINE in 3 dimensions. The problem is that points along a LINE do not uniquely identify a plane. The slope along one axis of the plane will be stable, but the slope along the other axis will be fitted arbitrarily by the regression model and will be unstable. The proper thing to do here is to model the line in 2 dimensions. In order to do this, you can either eliminate one of the two predictor variables from the model, or you can project the line in 3-dimensions onto a 2-dimensional subspace (which is what PCA does). Of course, a line formed by data points in 2 dimensions (x and y) is very nicely modeled by ordinary linear regression and it will give very a stable slope (Beta) parameter.
Another Nokia Explanation, The Same Tragic Conclusion
Why we like photos so much
This is true, but transmitting video at 8 bits per channel is problematic because it's too close to the threshold of perception. Any video processing you do on an 8 bpc signal is likely to introduce visible artifacts, and of course today's TVs go crazy with ridiculous video processing even at their default settings before people start playing with the brightness and contrast controls. We need to be transmitting video at 12 bpc so that video processing done at the display doesn't destroy the signal.
Fixing unmaintainable code with guaranteed to be unmaintained comments is a losing cause. To the extent possible, you should not duplicate logic in code and comment.

I find that I comment for three reasons. 1) To make clear what the public API is that shouldn't change versus what can change at any time. 2) To comment on non-obvious but important details of other APIs that I am calling. 3) To give a very general overview of the code.

But NEVER do I put comments of the form, "This part does this, and that part does that." If I feel tempted, well, maybe I've discovered a function that I want to use instead...
I'm here too, but be aware that sedentarity is one of the greatest real threats to people nowadays (threadmill desks are still not widespread).
Authy is first and foremost its own 2FA system based around ownership of a phone number. Where most phone based 2FA systems just send you a SMS message with a code you need to enter, Authy installs an app on the phone in question that fingerprints the phone. The fact that you can also use Authy to store other 2FA codes as well is just viewed as a bonus feature by Authy.
40 year vision:

I have in my pocket a wad of clay. I flatten it into a pancake and its face lights up with the book I was reading on the subway. Roll it into a ball, thin it out, maybe a special twist and it forms itself into a screwdriver. Another squeeze and it becomes my house key.
If you drop out to do what you love, you've already made it.
Sounds like you encountered what I call an "Uh-O Architecture". It's basically OO but overdone. Too many classes, too fine-grained, too abstract, too many layers, too many designer patterns for the sake of design patterns, etc.
Going a little deeper, we are talking about a 53 man roster times 32 teams, only some percentage of which drive drunk with or without the program.

How much impact does this actual issue have? What is the over/under on how many marginal drunk driving accidents the partnership with Uber will prevent per year? 10?

The primary effect will be to set up these 1500 or so celebrities as examples for how to behave when drunk. If using Uber after a bender is good enough for John Q Sportshero, then it's good enough for you. And that may make a real difference for the other 300 million of us.
I'm quite stupid/forgetful, so when I write code I try to do it such that some unexpected 3rd party (i.e. me in about 3 weeks time) can read through and figure out what's going on. This generally means I include a sections both at the beginning of the code and in line which explain what I'm actually trying to achieve, broadly speaking. It's amazing how much easier it is to read complex technical code if you understand what the goal is.

Comments which describe the code are much less useful than a commentary regarding the code's objectives, in my opinion.
Yesss, NFL and HN on the same page! My worlds are colliding.

Anyway, I don't know if this will be good enough to solve the problem. As someone else mentioned earlier, the NFL already has a system in place for all players to get free rides at any time, no questions asked (plus a legion of fans who would bend over backwards to drive an NFL player home). I think this could be an improvement with regards to the UX and ease of use for the players, but this still may not be enough to solve the main problem.

Edit: if we want to get more in-depth as to why this might not fix the problem, look at the kind of people who become NFL players. They're often from lower-income backgrounds where sports were their one outlet for success. When you go from perpetually struggling financially and are suddenly thrust into a world where you are making millions and surrounded by adoring fans, you think you're invincible. Cops wouldn't dare to arrest a football deity would they? Unfortunately that can get to their heads and leads to situations where they choose to drunk drive instead of call a free cab.
That's one country, out of the entire world.

Smartphones were less rare in Europe before 2005, but still there.
Here's your xenophobic headline:
"Uruguayan National Responsible for Construction of Solar Death Rays in Major US and UK Cities"
The Map That Lincoln Used To See the Reach of Slavery
the GP said "incompetent enough"
See kibana3 dashboard http://hnk.aws.af.cm/index.html , data from hckrnews.com data, elasticsearch qbox.io, hosting in appfog.
> NYC is the only city where getting a cab is easy

Define "easy". I've had several infuriating experiences trying to get a cab in NYC, all of which ended in me walking or taking a subway instead. NYC has a lot of cabs, but they also have a lot of cab patrons.
Made by beevolve a company who:

> Monitor your brand mentions, schedule and launch social media posts and measure resulting sales
and engagement for those posts - all in one easy-to-use platform. Designed for SMBs.

Yeah,sure. Why don't I just give you access to my social networking accounts. That sounds like a fantastic idea…
I don't get any banding when I connect my old 21" CRT via DVI to my current PC and set the display to 10bpp (32bits/ true color in MS terminology).

What we need is a replacement for LCD technology.
What make you think that the existing program was a regular cab? One would hardly describe "NFL players can call cabs" as "an existing union program where they call a phone number for a car" without intending to mislead.
Any language with tuples automatically gets "anonymous" multiple return values. (e.g. Python's `(1, "foo", None)`.)

(Go's multiple return values seem to just be simulating a single use case of proper tuples.)
Looks interesting!

How much is this? What timescales do you charge by?
Same here. I used street view combined with find directions, to find how the streets at each exit point in the route look like. Now it's impossible to open the street view of a route point.

I've filed it as a "commentary" (it doesn't allow bug reporting) through the feedback tool; if many of us do the same, maybe we'll get them to listen.
> When we think she’s mature enough (an important distinction from her being technically old enough), we’ll hand her an envelope with her master password inside.

Let me guess. She'll probably reject that envelope for the following reasons:

1. The account is known to be compromised (being under a third party control). Even if parent credentials could be removed, there's still a possibility they could gain access with social engineering with support, as they know detailed history of the account.

2. Unless she's completely monitored and barred from any network access, she'd probably already have another set of accounts by that time. Otherwise would signify she doesn't need any.

3. By that time she'd have her own perception of her own identity, that would be likely (but not necessarily) different from her parents' view of the time she didn't have much of personality - which is enough of a reason to reject the mismatching accounts and create ones to her own tastes.
Big data sets you can use with Open Source R
> she's only into Disney-style apps and a handful of toy unboxing subscriptions on YouTube

Has she found the egg videos yet?
Phabricator is pretty awesome, it's a web fronted to source code, issue tracking, chat, etc.

And to the second question - yes probably!
> Of course, you should expect the cost of your new app to be about the same as entering the business cold.

That's a pretty big cost if I'm WordPerfect.
Don't you think changing your surname to "Doe" is kinda overkill?
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Ah, you are misunderstanding me. I was saying that I deserve getting kicked out of the house. And, you are going to have to trust me on that.
I'd suggest delegated Gmail accounts: http://gmailblog.blogspot.com/2010/12/email-delegation-grant...
used as contact emails for social networks.

I set up a delegated Gmail account for my son so that I can monitor and rescue the account. He uses Steam for online gaming (mostly gmod), and Facebook.

My daughter's iPhone is set up with my Apple ID, but her Gmail address is used for iMessage, Facetime, etc. Aside from the ability to use 'Find my iPhone' to locate her if necessary, I can also lock the iPhone remotely when I get a RenWeb alert that she didn't turn in her homework!
>>I don't defend the Syrian government.

As I wrote in what you comment on:

"Devil's advocates are needed, but you refuse to acknowledge that you defend the devil. [...] you really avoid the point that the Syrian junta is a pack of mass murdering, raping, torturing assholes which the world would do better without."

I just note you missed a third(!) chance to condemn... A member in an Iranian/Syrian "50 cent army" would write just what you write. (Does that make you proud?)

I would like to touch your arguments too, but...

You are certain France, Israel and USA are in a conspiracy and lie (despite all the leaks). And that all the western media are in on the conspiracy and keep the truth away from the "sheeple".

Not much to say, since that isn't falsifiable; it explains every argument anyone can write, you can just stay with the media which write extremist conspiracy theories...

(As an additional note -- the method of delivery might be hard to establish with the large shelling from the Assad artillery after the gas attack. But that is probably just another lie? :-) )
(I've updated my repo using gettimeofday/getrusage).
If only there was some other way to implement rate limiting....
Major Heroku downtime
So what is this when it's not being knocked over by the flood of HNers?
Is it more high end than the existing car service?
The 'How This Works' link is throwing a JS error in my Chrome console.
didn't work for me - app was restored but not data