skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Because Monster Cables use those emotions to rip people off. Unless you really and truly think there's no moral problem with selling cables at a multi-thousand-percent markup based on claims which are trivially disproven, in which case I doubt we'll be able to have a reasonable conversation.
Buying second hand props up the $60US/$90AUD new cost though. Without second hand (ie. Steam at the moment) the prices plummet very quickly, $5 for Just Cause 2 for example, do you think GameStop etc. would allow you to buy it new for that price?
You don't need to execute JS in order to phish, as the original link alludes to with the html comment trick.

This particular comment thread was mostly about webmail clients. But to your specific question... take a look at the link for an incomplete list of email clients that runs JS

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_email_clients#Tem...
Because as GP said in the third paragraph, they're making decisions for us that tend to be biased in favor of permissiveness.
And, because game developers know the precise specs of every console they target, they can reduce load times and make texture rendering... sorry, sorry, I can't do this with a straight face.
I loved that fact that Monster Audio cable was designed with an 'arrow' telling you which end should be on the speaker and which at the amplifier because they were optimized for sound flowing "to" the speaker.
Assad has chemical weapons. Chemical weapons were used. Assad did not necessarily use chemical weapons.
I do the same (I also use TextWrangler because of its awesome file search/replace features). Sublime is certainly a better editor and feels more lightweight, but the debugging tools in RubyMine are absolutely invaluable.
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> Putin says war should only happen by consensus from the UN, I wonder why he didn't abide by this principle when Russia intervened against Georgia in South Ossetia in 2008.

Actually, Putin stated that the UN Charter allows military action either in self-defense, or by a decision of the Security Council. Which is accurate.

The Georgians attacked the South Ossetian capital, killing a number of Russian peacekeepers stationed there. Big mistake, because it supplied the "self-defense" component that Russia needed to justify their intervention.

The EU commission later found that the Russian response to Georgian provocations was a legitimate use of force. However, they also noted that Russia should have stopped at the border.
If you are summing up the whole experience rather than the audioformat, then you really don't have anything comparable. If one format really is better (and even that is subjective), then there needs to be a repeatable experiment that proves it.
An explosion isn't a chemical reaction?
Set design spec sheet allows developers to target their games more appropriately. Engines like Unity come in, drive more innovation. Low price point compared to a PC, and no additional hassle of making sure drivers are compatible etc.
You're ignoring that the encoding is only a single bit deep. Compared to a CD, it's only four times the bitrate. It just happens to be drastically reformatted.
I feel like PCs are a sliding scale. You have to keep updating them to play the latest games. Wheras consoles are a known - you pay once, and it's good for what, 5 years?
What's wrong wrong with it is simple: The question "Is PCM transparent?" is not subject to taste. It either is or it isn't. If listeners can't tell the difference between a source that is being reproduced from PCM or one that is being reproduced from DSD, then we can objectively state that PCM does not degrade sound quality.

You and I can disagree about whether impressionism is a "good" style of painting. The art world spent a good deal of energy debating that point. That is something which is subject to taste. But if you say "yes" and I say "no" to the question of whether van Gogh created his impressionist painting on canvas, then only one of us can be right. In this case, my insistence that van Gogh didn't paint on canvas would put me squarely in the loony or wacko category.
Zuckerberg Says The “Government Blew It” On The NSA Scandal
It doesn't even stop at audio cable. Ever seen those "High quality HDMI cables? The bits on THOSE wires are purer than any other 1s and 0s. There is real money to be made in selling the emperor his clothes.
Probably because the iPhone lacks tactile input buttons/joysticks.

Isn't iOS 7 supposed to add some sort of support for bluetooth gamepads? Will that help out?
Only he and perhaps a few close family members can know if he actually is, but his claimed religion is Russian Orthodox. I don't really see much reason to doubt it.
Unlike wine, music really comes down to knowledge, experience and training. Sound and our interpretation of it by the human ear have had rigorous study. Much of it is quantifiable. We know the optimum frequency response of our ears is around 85dBSPL, for example.

Things that are just peoples perceptions (like "brightness") have technical terms (amplitude of harmonics).

Sound engineers aren't doing black magic. If you reduce dynamic range too much through compression you can end up with a sound that people find "boring".

I'm sorry but there are things that very quantifiably sound terrible.

(I am a musician, I have run live sound and mix my own music.)
Even in Ubuntu 13.04, Steam installs a bunch of Ubuntu 12.04 stuff instead of relying on native libraries. So the Debian base doesn't matter much for compatibility. It's more a matter of packaging it with everything it needs to run on any distro.
Your honesty is much appreciated by the rest of us. Don't ever lose that please.
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Xperia Play
This is likely going to be my setup as well - technically running Windows 7, with a Linux VM up whenever I don't need all my system resources for gaming.
Works fine for me with an Australian credit card - didn't see 3D Secure/Mastercard verification though.
I sold electronics in college. The only difference I could ever detect was the money that I made off the sale.

Audiophiles are all about impressing rich friends with the amount of money they wasted. It's just like the corporate VP who spends an extra $40k on a V-12 Mercedes that is used to commute 2 minutes to work in rush hour traffic.
Performance would grant us the best reason to switch. Because otherwise we are quite satisfied with mongo. I have seen the technical comparison. I will keep an eye out for the performance results. Thanks for letting me know.
Is there any quantified, credible (semi)scientific evidence that colemak or dvorak is actually faster/easier/better? I've seen lots of theoretical stuff, but mostly anecdote and/or poorly designed tests.

Thanks.
I need help with refactoring this funding code :-)

donateButton.onclick=perk;

function perk(){
book.getPageByNumber(getRandomPage())=insertWittyHaverbekeProgrammingPearls();
book.getPageByNumber(getRandomPage())=insertAutographOnRandomPage();
book.getPageByNumber(getRandomPage())=insertNoStarchPrintEbookPromo();
}

function getRandomPage(){
pageNumber=Math.random()*book.length;
return pageNumber;
};
We are all equal... Except for the gay.
I doubt very much it's defending Russia's point of view. It's defending a point of view that has the outcome as Russia's and that Russia would like people to adopt, but I think we can be 100% certain it is not, in fact, Russia's point of view. Russia does not seem to have any big interests in the neighborhood (though it certainly has them nearby).

The problem here is that the same can be said about Obama. I do not know what his motivations are, I do think it's extremely likely he could care less about chemical weapons. But that is the whole point Obama's making. So what is his point ? Why does Obama want Assad out of the way ? America's interests lie the other way, the oilfields controlled by Saudi Arabia and others.

So what are these "nations"/presidents after ?
Gotta say, no one's kidding when they say Stripe's super responsive to respond, unlike a certain "Pal that doesn't pay!".
Ask HN: London developers, where do you get contract work?
More specifically front end developers, but where are you finding contract work?

I've seen a couple of job boards and some recruiters on LinkedIn regularly posting.

Any other strategies for getting contract work?

Only really interested in those contracts that are >= £350pd
That stuff is funny in a sad way but easy to ignore. I find it hardest to deal with the people who think that spending more money on something makes it better.

My little $100 tripath amp and the cheap but appropriate speakers that I picked for it absolutely smoke a lot of $3000 amps (and similarly expensive speakers) that I come across and people tend to not believe unless they're blindfolded (and still try to poo-poo it when they find out how little my setup cost).

Also it crushes my spirit when people have some $10k HiFi setup and the speaker placement/room accoustics aren't right at all.
The same is trivially true for a dozen nations. Should we attack them all ?

Hell, one might even say it's true for America itself.
> Obama asserted something quite different in last night's address.

The image of Colin Powell being sent with his slides full of incontrovertible "evidence", like a lamb to the slaughter to the UN to justify the Iraq invasion has left me scarred for life such that I can never trust again such so called "evidence" unless it comes from a multiplicity of neutral sources, most especially somewhere other than the US government.

I don't care what the President may have said. He was fed it by the same military-industrial establishment that stands to benefit to the tune of billions (or even hundreds of billions) of dollars every time a major war breaks out. Probably the same high level advisors that came up with the idea Iraq was a "slam dunk", and fed into the willing ears of the bush administration.
Thanks, I haven't heard about multicast delegates before, and I need to learn more about FRP.
Check The Open Pandora Pocket Gaming Handheld. It has physical controls and IS portable. Way better than a phone for Gaming, and it comes with a full Linux distribution for more serious applications.
It is in my edition of the camel.
I believe that the distinction between loaning digital goods and loaning a license to legally use digital goods is meaningful and important to recognize.
As far as I know all the Humble Bundles are completely DRM free excluding the couple big studio windows only bundles. Is that not correct?
I don't consider myself bitter or cynical. Just realistic. Who has the most influence in Washington? What do they use that influence for? In the middle of all that whirlwind of money in Washington, how much mind space do you think they really give to their constituents when it's not an election year?

I'm acquainted with a state Senator. He's a well meaning guy, but he acknowledges just what a corrupting effect the truckloads of money has on national politics.

I've read that there are over 10,000 pages to Obamacare. Who wrote all that? How much insight into the health care field does it take to put in so much detail? Who else could have possibly written it other than the health care field itself?

We talk about regulatory capture like it's some horrific thing akin to Stalinism. But it's reality, today, in every single economic field that's more complex than hairdressing. How could we possibly provide meaningful oversight over the passing of a bill that fills a shelf? The only thing we can do is debate meaningless talking points that don't address the critical reality. Industries are regulating themselves, and we're just letting them frame the discussion while they sell out the public under our very noses.
Any half-decent emotional curriculum will teach that you can't control other people's emotions. (And that there's a lot you can't know for sure about those emotions - which kids are shown as picking up in the article.)
Feds Stalked Airline Passengers to Catch Manning's Friend
There is some more serious research, the Colemak FAQ, refers to Carpalx (http://mkweb.bcgsc.ca/carpalx/?colemak), there you can actually take a look at the several Dvorak layouts and QWERTY.

I actually saw more discussions about this in the Colemak forum, but that was a long time ago.
I'm interested in what you consider "theoretical stuff" or "poorly designed tests." If metrics like number of words possible from the home row alone or total finger travel given some body of text do not satisfy you, then I doubt anything will.

I will say one of the biggest misconceptions is that the Dvorak layout is for speed. I've known people who type 80+ WPM with two fingers on QWERTY. You can be fast on any layout, but Dvorak is way more comfortable. Once you can type faster than you can think of what to type, it doesn't really matter.
What about all these recent Origin/Steam only bundles? They seem to appear more and more often, and they don't look DRM free at all to me. You could note the absence of EFF in the charities there. I guess it's because EFF doesn't want to make it look like they endorse DRM.
So in that video, I saw: Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Pinterest, Google Docs, iPad...
That's less and less true for PCs. I had to update my PC every year or so before to keep up with the latest games, but nowadays it's clearly a slower moving target, and even with a 2 years old PC (equipped with a good graphics card at the time) I play most games in full/medium details in Full HD.
>> Employment is an arrangement of mutual benefit

That's how I look at it, but I've encountered way more employers (across multiple industries, in companies of all sizes) who have the mentality of "people should feel lucky that they have a job with us". This attitude is even worse during an economic downturn.
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I played with the Surface Pro for a week or two. I felt the display was actually one of the best ones I've seen. Especially considering the quality of the pen digitizer inside.

Are you maybe referring to the lower-res display on the Surface RT? (I haven't played with that one much.)
I totally agree here, when you are programming it doesn't really matter if you type at 150 WPM... it's all about ergonomics and movement economy (IMHO).
Maybe turn up at networking or technical events and meet people? Generally if people first hang out with you socially you are more likely to be considered up front when the need arises.
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I am assuming you mean technology news? I think techmeme.com gives you a great bird's eye view about everything that you need to know in a couple of minutes.
It's just sitting inasmuch as reading is looking, writing is moving your hand, and living is breathing.
Right. I'm trying to refer to the self-deception that people have when it comes to audio gear. A really common example is how many musicians and audiophiles end up buying power filters and claim they make the sound better. Often these people don't need the power filters and you can prove with documentation and test equipment that they a) don't need them and b) aren't doing anything to the sound. Are you playing out live in random clubs? Sure get a power filter (but that's not as important as a surge protector). Are you playing at home with modern wiring and not overloading your circuit? Don't waste your fucking money.

So many musicians end up developing biases about what certain equipment is supposed to sound like. There are a few videos floating around comparing guitar amp/cab modeling gear to the real thing. A lot friends of mine have trouble picking them apart or getting them right in a blind listening test. Frequently the model has some tweaks that make it sound better... or a better description would be to say that it sounds more like what the musician expects that gear to sound like. Some amp X was used on such and such album and has Y sound and the model sounds like that amp does on the album.

I'm frequently right in these blind tests and I end up telling people is that it's because I don't care about the gear and don't have any preconceived notions about what it should sound like. I just listen to the timbre and make my best guess.
You are completely missing the point. Putin is stating that the reason no one should intervene in Syria, because we need to follow the law (the security council). When the truth is he could easily not veto and intervention would be lawful. That's why it is disingenuous. Vote for it and your dilemma is solved!
The latest update includes "Click to Play." Just click the Play button to let the script run once.
I'll add some information on the homepage. I made sure I was clear to release this before I left the company I made it at
I haven't used it with Objective-C, but you should check out Smalltalk Best Practice Patterns. The two languages are close enough that it should work, Rubyists refer to it all the time.
$400,000 for an e-commerce site? Can't believe that happened. Anyone can point me or tips as to how to get those 6figure plus contracts now days?
SharePoint isn't a good product, but I'm pretty sure it's successful: http://thenextweb.com/microsoft/2012/11/12/claiming-66-enter...
My take is that sometimes mobile sites are often optimised for simplicity (this is bad), sometimes for content (this is better), and occasionally, rarely perhaps.. for both (this is awesome!).
We've been using it for about 15 months now without any problems with RADOS. Last winter we had some data loss with CephFS and needed to rebuild the filesystem from backup, but CephFS is unsupported so it was somewhat expected. I think the issues came from the Linux kernel client (circa the 3.2 kernel iirc), so we switched over to the FUSE client instead and have been on that since.

Good news is that performance is much, much better with 0.61 than prior releases. Both for RADOS and CephFS. We'll probably upgrade to 0.67 in the next few weeks and it's probably time to upgrade to the 3.10 kernel as well for btrfs fixes and to kick the tires on the kernel fs client again.
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RAID is a lesser class of backup, and he's given up on the entire realm.
The reason I prefer console games is the control. I prefer a controller where my hands are upwards, like a Playstation, instead of a keyboard and mouse. There are peripheral controllers for PC, but since games are built with the expectation of just a keyboard and mouse, they don't make maximum advantage of the peripheral control (except flight yokes and steering wheels).
Maybe crude to answer my own question but this seems a pretty good answer :

http://www.reddit.com/r/TrueAskReddit/comments/1lw8yg/why_do...
Adblock isn't doing it, definitely Ghostery, so looks like either they detect Ghostery and hide the article if you have it (the rest of the page shows up, just not the article content/text)... or Ghostery thinks their text is a tracker and is blocking it.
Tactile controls are something that most phones are missing. But there seems to be a problem of culture. The games developed for mobile phones are targeted at mainstream casual markets. And there is also a culture of free beer with mobile gamers. When the client won't pay a proper price for the game, it is too much of a risk to create a large game. Which is why developers target simple casual games, and tries to nickel and dime with some targeted psychological tricks.

I enjoy more complex game, even with mobile platforms such as Nintendo 3DS. My most played games are Fire Emblem Awakening, Etrian Odyssey IV, Devil Survior Overclocked and Monster Hunter 3 U. The first three games would not even require tactile controls; but I don't think any mobile gamer in the current culture would buy them for 30 to 40 dollars.

With dedicated game consoles the culture of actually paying for a good large game is still alive and well. And I think that is the reason why developers make games for them. If the day comes when free-to-play casual games are the only mobile games available, it will be a sad day for me.
Mark Zuckerberg: Government ‘blew it’ with NSA response
it doesn't matter if you get paid or not... the amount is too small for the risk you are taking, unless it's a hobby. But I think that most of these hackers work for free and never get paid (and also don't get any of the benefits from working directly for Google).
VMware has a product to do exactly this (Auto Deploy). It PXE boots ESXi and can configure it automatically.
Because the timing between "when that information comes out" and "when apple have something to show that people can buy" greatly affects their stock price.
> Is the custom hardware so fundamentally critical to the experience that you couldn't provide it otherwise?

You could spin the question around and ask why do point & shoot cameras (analog: consoles) or SLR's (analog: PC's) exist when you're always carrying a camera in your pocket? The answer is level of control, depth of experience and quality. Such hardware will be used by enthusiasts, whereas those who just want something to snap selfies, dinners out etc will stick with whatever is most convenient.

I can play games on my phone anywhere I go but they lack the richness and intensity of playing a multiplayer FPS or RTS game on a stable wired connection and dedicated controller.

A way around this was mentioned in the article - tactile displays. A display or bezel that can raise parts of its topography into customizable shapes that react to touch. This will largely solve the input issue. It might even make it better than the fixed human-machine interface like a controller because it provides freedom for the developer (or user) to craft the input mechanism to perfectly suit the game/app.
Kent Beck’s Smalltalk Best Practice Patterns is a great book. In Smalltalk, but it works rather well for good OO languages, in general. Very easy to read. http://amzn.com/B00BBDLIME?tag=hboon-20
Which Java software does not run on Java 7, preventing users to upgrade? I thought Java was backwards compatible.
As someone who worked in a school all of last year, I disagree too. I never screamed at any child, and I had fewer problems with discipline than the teachers that did.

For me it is better to explain why I am angry or disappointed with a child's behavior in private, and if I don't see a change then implement a punishment like missing recess, changing seats, or sending the child to talk to a counselor/principal. I worked with younger kids, so these were pretty effective punishments.

If you resort to screaming right away, the child won't open up to you about problems at home, problems with teasing, etc. that are important to understanding why they might be acting out. If the child trusts and likes you, they'll try harder to behave for you... it's really not very different than an adult relationship.
I will definitely be using this! I was just about to code my own for a project I'm working on. The ability to put the fields in columns would be great. An example would be to allow some to have two separate text fields, like First Name & Last Name, on the same line.
What if Google bought Detroit
I do the same thing with Vim short cuts, think about their "meanings". I found it helped a lot!

I'm curious about h, j, k, and l. Same story?
You're putting words in my mouth.

If you design a system based on guarantees, it's going to be brittle. It will fail, and it will be very unpleasant. If you design a system to handle contingencies, like elected official's data getting through, it's going to be more resilient. If you design a system that will handle contingencies and then spending as much money as you can on preventing those contingencies from needing to be used -- well, you're finally developing something useful.

Hell, the best guarantee a cryptographer can give you is a one-time pad, and they'll tell you that the human factors involved will be just as bad (and probably worse) than algorithms with weaknesses.

But, back to putting words in my mouth: this stuff shouldn't be shared because spying on American citizens is unconstitutional and giving the data to allied nations is backstabbing us in the name of national security -- not because it's impossible to build a perfect system to protect elected officials.