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GroundworkCSS 2 Released
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If Syngress isn't bad then they've definitely improved. For a while they had some great security titles, but the mid/later half of the last decade they produced a lot of bad books. Terrible editing, repeating chapters used in different books, etc. I don't think Ive bought one of their titles in the last 4-5 year and I haven't regretted it.
I asked the crawl/indexing team about this, and it looks like sana.sy hasn't let Google crawl the site since August. It's unclear whether it's deliberate vs. something like timeouts. So it's nothing on Google's side. No webspam-related issues or anything like that, either.

In fact, if sana.sy were to register for Google's free webmaster console at google.com/webmasters/ , then they would have gotten automatic alert emails regarding the high level of errors we get when trying to crawl the site.
A moat would be kind of cool :)
Well, that would mean that NASA also faked the Apollo 13 incident, in order to regain public interest in their fake landings.
Real-world benchmarks
> Isn't the future of the gaming is in the browser?

I'm of the belief that the amount of revenue that can be squeezed out of games written by Zynga and the like represents a relatively small share of the overall gaming market.

I think there will always be gamers who want full-screen games with large assets -- and there's no plugin or browser subsystem that adequately delivers that experience, and the content files for a modern 3D game are often a little too large to host remotely. Especially on phones.

> Operating software wars feels meaningless and ridiculous these days

Apple's App Store, Microsoft's secure-boot and app-store ecosystem lockdown attempts that numerous others have commented on in this thread, Android's capture of a significant portion of the mobile market, Linux's powers waxing by the year, the fall of Sun and the implosion of Solaris...

The OS wars are getting interesting again! For many years there was more-or-less total stagnation in the market, with Windows ascendant, a few UNIX flavors and the remnants of OS/2 holding their own in the business market, IBM in full retreat from the PC market, and all competitors struggling to survive with marginal userbases for many years after Microsoft's decisive victory over IBM OS/2 in the mid '90s.
I missed the pink lanyard bit. That does tip it into demeaning territory. Like girls/ladies/women need to be highlighted any more at a tech conference.
http://www.theguardian.com/notesandqueries/query/0,5753,-557...

> Mr Ward came to my lab about a year before his death needing help to turn what was essentially a party trick into a useable & commercialy viable product. The problem he had was although the powder component did exactly as it said on the tin, he had found no way of applying a lasting coating. All he really has was some powder mixed with PVA glue, the problem being that although you could apply it to certain objects it's longevity was no more than 2 weeks. While testing we discovered that a sample he'd kept for almost 10 years could be destroyed in a matter of minutes under a methylacetylene-propadiene propane blowtorch. Unfortunately after many samples & tests we where unable to find a effective application method & we parted company on good terms. Sadly this is the true reason why Mr Ward was never able to sell or bring his incomplete product to market.
Being the author of this framework, I'd love to have feedback and any issues reported on the github page. https://github.com/groundworkcss/groundwork/issues?state=ope...
I think he means before stories like that started popping up on HN...
I read it. The article actually makes a good point regarding formatting an article.
Paid support is excellent. I use DataTables in some client projects, and wanted to speed up my use of it.

I paid for support and had the author's full attention the same morning. Works like a charm.
I'm not speaking for some imaginary strawman-feminist. I would rather that the event organizers treat me like anyone else and assume that my attendance would be based upon my interest in the subject and not offer me some affirmative-action ticket that automatically separates me from everyone else.
Really? Because I would prefer "2008" to "2k8"... It's literally one more character...
That doesn't make sense. At the time, Wayland was more ready than a project written from scratch. Their initial manifesto also called out a bunch of things as failings of Wayland that were patently false. The Wayland core devs also did not know that Ubuntu was having these issues, IIRC.

So either:

1) Ubuntu didn't understand Wayland at all, amd decided to write their own from scratch without talking to or consulting the Wayland devs.

Or

2) Ubuntu has an ulterior motive (e.g. Not-Invented-Here-syndrome).
That's right, you can't speak for everyone. Also, this is a post about Berkeley mostly, and only tangentially (to be generous) about their startup.
Yes, except that aerogel is well-understood, both as to composition and behavior. This stuff is a first-class mystery. Too bad the inventor, good at science, was so bad at business.
I really like books from Manning publications. Their "in action" series are excellent.
document.getElementById("main").style.fontFamily = "sans-serif";
Why do you do -fno-omit-frame-pointer on x86_64 the ABI requires dwarf or is there something I'm missing?
Bing gets a new logo and modern design
Linux doesn't need to become mainstream the way OS X and Windows are. Linux is mainstream the way Linux is, and will continue to be with Android, Steambox, and a huge chunk of the smart TVs, Blu-ray players, set-top boxes, and other embedded device markets.
We finally ended up picking http://dgrid.io/ over SlickGrid and jqGrid. As with every table component, there are some quirks, but we're really happy with it. Feels like the most modern table component to us.
A lot of HDTVs have motion interpolation, colour enhancement, and noise reduction; all of which absolutely ruin movies.

I suggest turning these off(In my case, all of them were on by default, and some of them needed to be manually toggled on every start for a month before it magically decided to default correctly).
We're thinking about adding a system where you can associate your TeX images with a key, from which you can download all images associated with your project. It's in the pipeline, though. ;P
The principal difference between the libphenom event dispatcher and the other event libraries is that libphenom can wakeup and dispatch IO events to any of the IO scheduling threads (no thread affinity).

Contrast with the libevent approach of using an application specific scheme to assign descriptors to an event base associated with a thread (strong thread affinity).

This makes more of a difference if you have chatty protocols and/or long lived sessions and no way to rebalance your fd -> event_base mapping.
The best heat resistant materials we have available to date are ablative materials. These materials "shed" particles of themselves as heat(kinetic energy) is applied.

It looks like starlite while able to withstand more extreme temperatures, also ablates at relatively normal temperatures. From my quick research, this looks like, this is responsible for its longevity issues.

EDIT: relatively normal temperature meaning a blowtorch vs. a rocket nozzle or re-entry heatshield
@AznHisoka: Thanks for the reminder. Are you associated with/use them?

After you told me about them in my previous thread, we checked them out and actually ordered a server there. Turns out the only payment option they have is PayPal. We tried to make cc payment via paypal but they would make just a test transaction (successfully) and then say, can't process.
We tried four times, with the same results. OVH support wasn't much help, except saying PayPal is the only available option now.

In the meanwhile, we found this:

http://www.webhostingtalk.com/showthread.php?t=672553

and this:

http://www.majidkhosravi.com/ovh-review/

I wonder what this is all about.
Now that sounds more sensible, and I agree completely that ultimately you can only help someone who wants to be helped.

Your earlier comments were showing that you don't understand the poverty problem at all and you don't know how to motivate people at all. The problem is not that poor people are constantly choosing to be poor, or making no choice and allowing themselves to fall into poverty, but that they are raised in poverty. Being raised poor means all sorts of things: you are taught poor values by your parents, you likely get a terrible education, you likely only have access to be friends with fellow poor people, you probably eat poorly, and worst of all your poor parents and poor friends have reinforced your entire life that these poor decisions you're making are actually good decisions.

You will never accomplish anything (or sound smart or practical at all) by slapping individuals in the face and telling them to make better decisions. They're told that these good decisions us well off people make, by their friends and by the vast majority of us well-offers, are actually making us terribly unhappy people (and in a lot of cases they're not wrong). The only way real change can happen is by addressing the cultural cycle of poverty, and by supporting, positively teaching, and motivating these people to make better decisions.
I'm not invoking "Science!", just "Evidence".
Mullumbimby se ve afectado por el aumento de la radiación de microondas wifi
Frame pointers make things easier for tools to get backtraces without requiring complex dwarf unwinders. The observability is something I value more than not being able to use that register for other things.
Tube cleaners refuse fingerprint clock-in, union says
I think ideology may be clouding your understanding. Unlike the Detroit Free Press, Alternet has a strong political point of view and the article you linked is simply trying to use the failure of Detroit to score political points for their agenda - not a good place to find out what is really going on.

The example you bring up, Detroit city income taxes, was explained in the Free Press article. Originally put in place by the Detroit city government they were then increased in an initative approved by Detroit voters. So, at least in this example, if anyone set Detroit up to fail it was the elected government and voters of Detroit. The article also notes the higher resident versus non-resident rates are typical for city income taxes in Michigan.

Or you can just stick with an ideological analysis and always get the answer you like ;)
But isn't that how tech conferences usually work? And doesn't that result in the kind of gender ratio problem about which there is much dismay?

Agreed, they did this in a clumsy way, but hey, they are trying something.
My internal exposure was small because there weren't many people in the office (usually 2-3 at most). In a larger environment I would probably filter to specific admin access points.
Why Startups Should Prioritize Customer Service
Does anyone know if Intel could just expose an API that is entirely agnostic of the display server, so Wayland, Mir, XMir, or some random other project could all use the same interface and get full functionality?
I don't let it get that far. I focus regardless or try my hardest so long as I got some good rest I am fine
Are normal tickets called "boy tickets"? Are they required to be in blue lanyards? Will women caught with blue lanyards be kicked out of the conference? -_-
1. Instead of girl-tickets, which is insulting, they should be called "Chickets."

2. Not all girls -- especially adult professional girls -- subscribe to traditional princess gender roles. Offer a variety of pretty pastel and rainbow colors beyond staid and confining old pink. Maybe men could also have some nice alpha earth tones for their lanyards for contrast so that nobody with a gender dimorphic identity could ever feel welcome.

3. Conference fees in the $1000 range are usually paid by employers. Try rewarding the actual girls who might come instead of just lowering the price for the boss who won't share with them anyway. For example, girls could be rewarded with many $5 bills generously slipped into their pants by passersby.

4. If this system prospers, it is certain not to inspire any kind of backlash from non-girls who feel the price differential is unfair to them.
This looks like an answer to my question I posted elsewhere under this story. (Namely, how do I get egg-timer elapsed time since a certain UTC time? Which, the UTC component isn't a must have for me, the Unix Epoch will work just as well.)

But I notice that your solution is POSIX only. How about Windows?

And how do NTP adjustments affect this solution -- surely when the NTP server tells you your system clock is consistently off by 16%, there's got to be some effect on clock_gettime with CLOCK_MONOTONIC, right? I'd like to retain the ability to use NTP to improve the accuracy of the results.
Why would you think everyone must have the same purpose?

Even among the people who think every person's purpose is to serve God, every person has a different way of doing that. This specific way of serving God is their "purpose".

Strikes me as slightly analogous to Aristotle's claim that every person has happiness as a goal. That tells you relatively little about what each person might actually do, since what makes people happy (i.e., mostly realizing their unique individual potential, for Aristotle, "become who you are") differs from person to person.
Probably because it's none of your business. Seriously, what could you get from a firm figure that you couldn't get from the generalisation of between 10 - 100k?
This discussion will go off the rails like always, but I just want to point out that not all women (girls?) are the same. Many women will take this positively and attend because this would make them feel welcome, while many others would be put off by this. Simply being female does not give you the ultimate say on whether this is fine or not. You are not some spokeswoman for your entire gender.

I'd judge this as a success or not based on how many of these tickets are used, which will be found out after the conference. Hopefully they do a post on the statistics at the end so we can make proper conclusions.
SAILDART archives (Stanford Artificial Intelligence Laboratory)
Technical Interviews Make Me Smile
Boffins demo on-chip entanglement at macro scale
> LEGEND: If you say "Node is close to the metal" 3x in a darkened bathroom, Dennis Ritchie will appear and smack you in the back of the head.

-- https://twitter.com/NeckbeardHacker/status/33213881824747520...

(Original title was: "I knew NodeJS was close to the metal, but 4x haskell & 9x ruby Wow")
> Mr Ward came to my lab about a year before his death
> needing help to turn what was essentially a party trick
> into a useable & commercialy viable product.

So, this person heard a huge, "Whooosh" when Graphene hit the scene too, eh? "It's just Scotch Tape and pencil doodles!"

I definitely Want To Believe. World-Changing technology always has its detractors. Remember the airplane? Silly, silly invention.
Then you'd be amazed at what the government defines as "poor" now. Using data from the Census Bureau, the Department of Energy, and many other federal agencies, see this detailed report (tons of charts, numbers, and links to sources).

http://www.heritage.org/research/reports/2011/07/what-is-pov...

You may be surprised to see "poor" households usually include:

* the usual money-saving appliances (fridge, stove, microwave, coffee maker, clothes washer, dishwasher)

* plenty infotainment (2-3 TV's, DVD, VCR, stereo)

* money-draining luxuries (cable / satellite TV, xbox subscription, smart phone)

Yes, the last items are luxuries, if you're going to complain about poverty. Heck, I'm middle class and I don't have any of those three.

Let's talk about food, too. From the report:

Temporary food shortages have increased during the current recession but still remain atypical among poor households. During 2009, less than one poor household in five experienced even a single instance of “reduced food intake and disrupted eating patterns” due to a lack of financial resources.[26] Strikingly, only 4 percent of poor children experienced even a single instance of “reduced food intake and disrupted eating patterns” due to a lack of financial resources.[27]

Regrettably, most discussions of poverty in the U.S. rely on sensationalism, exaggeration, and misinformation ... an effective discussion must be based on an accurate assessment of actual living conditions and the causes of poverty.

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This is all to say, with concrete data, that people we consider "poor" tend to have the essentials and then some.
It's nice idea "Helping Others"
Ear Wax From Whales Keeps Record Of Ocean Contaminants
Why reinvent the wheel? ejabberd is likely your best bet at least until you need to customize it heavily.
Make DataTables editable with this addition: https://code.google.com/p/jquery-datatables-editable/

It is really fantastic for that live spreadsheet feel.
The history of CTRL + ALT + DEL
On this matter, this needs to be traced:

http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=3891677&cid=44076497

An important information from the "confidential" studies here for example would be what kind of monitors were tested.
The words "Plastic Perfected" don't appear in the ad itself, but given that this is an official Apple YouTube channel, the title smacks of sheer arrogance.
Hence BART.
The problem is not gender parity at conferences, but gender parity in the industry. You see the inverse at conferences in fields dominated bg women, and there are no "boy tickets".
...and now Berkeley rents will start rising to match San Francisco rents.

Plus if you want to live in the Downtown area, you'll be competing with students who want to be right next to campus. Since the spending power of a software engineer far outweighs that of a student, the students are going to get royally screwed on this.
On the topic of annoying words, thank you for writing "sex" rather than "gender". I hate that stupid euphemism.
> Thanks for pointing out Sunless Sea btw. I'm a big fan of FTL and this looks like a very interesting game in a similar vein.

You're welcome. You also get quality, funny, atmospheric writing for the same price.

But thinking about it, it would be interesting to have informal statistics about what kind of game gets funded on Kickstarter. I've seen adventure games, roleplaying games, one Diablo-like, a roguelike or two, and plenty of strategy/tactics games (marking a strong comeback of turn-by-turn play). On the other hand, there seems to be a dearth of manshooters/interactive torture games (apart from a tactical one I read about not so long ago) - either because the public is already well served by Medal of Duty XXIX or due to budget constraints. On average, the emphasis seems to be more on "thinking" games than clicky-clicky.
"In what other industry is it okay to give discounted “girl tickets”?"

To provide, at least, an objective answer, airlines will discount tickets if they have a given level of certainty that the passenger is female -- except, interestingly, on Thanksgiving and Mother's Day, when female demand is higher than male demand.
That's called neo-sexism, like affirmative action was neo-racism ( i dont deny the social implications of racial segregation and slavery, but these politics did not make people less racist). If I was a girl I would definetly feel offended. Now what about tickets for us black people ? We too are a minority in the IT sector... how does it sound now ?
Hear hear. I can't repeat this point enough. You have to force yourself to save, first. If you spend on everything else first and figure you'll save "the rest", something will always come up. If you set it aside before other categories, it will ... be set aside!

As a corollary, just writing (and following) a basic budget does wonders. I've talked to a lot of people who said it was like getting a raise. You have regular expenses, so just plan out a basic month and then follow it. Something magic happens next: by being more conscious and deliberate about your spending, you spend less on un-necessary "wants" (if it's truly a need you'll spend it no matter what).

Plus, a written budget is like looking in the mirror: it's a reflection of your priorities, good bad or indifferent. If you see you're spending $300 / month on restaurants and $0 / month saving for retirement ... well, that shows what appears to be important to you. And, if you've got two brain cells to rub together, it shows an easy place to make some adjustments. Not that I have anything against restaurants ... even $200 and $100 would be far more reasonable.
>No, it's a Netflix subscription, so when they drop your kids' favourite shows you have fun explaining corporate politics as the reason they can't watch Bob the Builder any more.

I suppose this is as good a time to ask as any... Why has UltraViolet not taken off, in anyone's reasonable estimation?

Seems smart to me. I buy a UV film, everyone recognizes my purchase. I buy a film once. I own it. Do I have this wrong? I only own a few, mostly with other purchases, but it seems smart to me, and easy.
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Usually when I see the same topics make it to the front page again and again, I get somewhat annoyed. But when articles that highlight the importance of customer service make it, I am genuinely happy to see it. Why? Well quite frankly, it is an area that still needs work and given how many aspiring tech founders are on HN, it is an excellent place to reiterate such a point.

Personal anecdote if you care to read: My roommate and I launched a mobile app a little over a year ago on our campus and it didn't do as well as we wanted. Sure, the app wasn't as refined as it could have been but we still expected far more users. Looking back, one thing we never did was reach out to our initial users and ask for feedback. This time around, just last week, we launched the same service but in the form of a website (alwaysbuzzn.com) and have reached out to almost every one of our initial users to ask for their genuine feedback. Not only has it helped us iterate, but it has shown our users that we care about what they think and the word is spreading faster than ever. Sure, we can say the website is more effective than the app, but I still point our success to our attention to maximizing the user experience beyond anything else.
If women in tech don't want people referring to them as "girls", perhaps they shouldn't create organizations like "Girl Develop It", "Girls Who Code", "Girls Teaching Girls to Code" and "Black Girls Code".
It's precisely because almost all gravitational dynamics are controlled by G*M (for some M) that G is so poorly-known. We're forced to do terrestrial experiments, and they're extremely difficult.

G is very seductive. It seems obvious that we should be able to measure a fundamental constant of nature to better than 14 ppm (or, if you take the scatter of current measurements, 100s of ppm), but it's really really hard.
Our org in Chicago has an iOS dev making ~$100K/year salary (+ benefits, etc). They get offers constantly for $100K-$130K/year. Our lead dev gets exec/manager level mobile offers for $150K-$170K/year several times a month. So not lone wolf consulting from what I've seen, but the money is definitely there in the mobile space.

Feel free to come get coffee if you want more info; I'm in the West Loop off Halsted.
a similar debate existed with New Orleans after the flooding. do we bother to rebuild was the question - one of the more interesting ideas was instead of spending x billion on (indfficient) government reconstruction give each citizen x billion / population. if enough people decide to stay and rebuild fine, if they all leave and buy flats in NYC it's also fine.

It's interesting - but certainly not the first thing I would suggest if I was a congressman