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Raw data without any header, I suppose. You must know or guess the width and height to properly decode the image.
If you have IM, just use 'display' to open it directly.
I've been a Vimp too... I knew about vim for years, sometimes trying the switch, but it never stuck.

By now, it did stick. What finally convinced me the most is that a lot of really smart people not only use it but have developed a fierce loyalty to this text editor.
Most people I know use gmail, and not a single one of them is thinking of changing due to privacy concerns (as far as I know). What better option is there for a non-technical person anyway?

80%+ of people who own smartphones use android, and they have phones for most niches - big, small, cheap, stylus, unlockable, replaceable battery etc. They have several manufacturers making phones with it. Their position there is not fragile either.

I'd love to see Firefox take off, but there is no way it is going to be bigger than Android.

Sure, there is a very small chance that everyone will stop using Google's products, but the chances of people moving off Facebook is much greater.
Where were you when the Sentencing Guidelines were proposed in 1987? When they became law on November 1, 1989? The guidelines at that time were all about throwing drug dealers into jail for extended periods, but because you weren't a drug dealer, so what? Now those same guidelines are being used against average computer users. Because they said nothing before, it's too late now. What was the quote from the German pastor Niemoller? "First they came for the Socialists..."
Um, last time I checked, movies and TV shows purchased from iTunes were still locked down tight. For that matter, for a long-term user it is surprisingly easy to have random DRMed music in an iTunes library unless you were very diligent about paying to unlock it (as I discovered while uploading my wife's library to Amazon Cloud Player). Unless you have some bizarre definition of iTunes content that doesn't include those kinds of cases, you just don't know what you're talking about when it comes to iTunes DRM.
Off topic: This is strange. This story was posted an hour ago, it has, at the moment, 24 points, yet I can only see it on /newest. It was briefly on the front page, but now I can't find it there. There's also no sign of it on the second, third, fourth or fifth page. I didn't look further. Weird. Does anybody have an explanation?
This is probably because you came from 10.1 and upgraded to 10.2.

Then it locks your phone again, but its easy to re-enable. Updates between 10.2 versions don't lock your phone.

You can just download new updates in your configuration, system submenu of your phone.

Just download and then click install. I never had a problem with it actually (although they are nightlies), sometimes battery improvements are noticable and system improvements, that's really cool.
So, i never experienced a bad release, and i'm always capable of downgrading my phone to the previous release (i download a new upgrade, install the new release and after some days i delete the old installation files).

A lot of days, i just do an update every day at midnight when i'm going to sleep.

One day, my phone went from 1 day battery time to 2 days (after the update from 10.1 to 10.2, somewhere the fifth nightly update i did).

One advice, if you install 10.3 in the future, install GAPPS in your system/app directory first. So you can install it immediatly.

I didn't have a problem with rerooting though.
One imagines that this is the reason Lavabit shut its doors.
I think the key word is "platform". Robotics hobbyists would enjoy writing software and design sensors for it to drive itself.
You probably don't understand well enough how big a difference these tools can make in your efficiency.
Of course number one priority is to know the technology, nobody argues that.
"Citizens in the US have a duty to de-escalate the situation, a 'duty to retreat', unless they're backed into a metaphorical corner ('castle doctrine')."

From Wikipedia:
"A Stand-Your-Ground law is a type of self-defense law that gives individuals the right to use deadly force to defend themselves without any requirement to evade or retreat from a dangerous situation. It is law in certain jurisdictions within the United States."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stand-your-ground_law

This is the type of law that allowed Trayvon Martin's killer to walk away as an innocent man.
Food stamps and medicare do not make a person less poor.
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If I click 'see more' under the 'people you may know' list on the homepage, fully half of the eight people above the fold are without LinkedIn accounts. These include family members who I can be certain don't have accounts. I assume clicking 'add to network' (rather than the 'connect' for those who do have accounts) would generate an invitation to join LinkedIn.
Well, I can't source precisely that phrasing. But imagine an engineered ecology that is: less cruel than a naturally evolved one; as diverse; also includes some 'dinosaur-killer-sized' asteroid impact aversion system that prevents global scale mass extinctions. Wouldn't you find that ecology more beautiful than a naturally evolved one (that we have now)?
I have read your entire post and still don't know what BaaS stands for. B.. as a service?
Pressure is not doing fizbuzz at an interview its when the billing system you are in charge of has its first 5 mill month and the CTO nudges you and says "this had better be right other wise we are both out of a job"
It suggests 'people' by email address that are my own. In the past I used gmail as a Dropbox together with a friend and it always shows name1 + name2 @ gmail.com as someone I might know. I'm pretty sure everyone involved has forgotten the password for that account.
Thank you for saying this. I've seen this a few times now on HN and really bothers me.
Kids to day I first hear a similar joke and the editor in question was TECO.
It does rather expose the arch-evangelist of free trade, the USA, as a bit of a hypocrite.
Can't believe this non-sense is on HN.

If your enthusiasm about code is so dependent upon external things other than code, or about cute and cozy examples then this isn't for you. It sounds like a few people in this thread are forcing themselves to like programming and they don't know why.
It depends on how fast the resin cures. I have the idea that it sends (and repeats) the same layer for a bit longer than milliseconds, so I don't see it mattering.
Unfortunately, the Holt bill engages in, as others put it, a silly bit of optimism.

I looked up to see what has happened thus far regarding Reagan's Executive Order 12333 [0] where assassinations by anyone representing the USG is completely forbidden from engaging in assassination attempts. Does anyone honestly believe this prevents anything? I find it hard to believe it is adhered to. Was it amended post-9/11? It is hard to tell, as the follow executive orders on this topic never address assassination.

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Executive_Order_12333
I haven't known any CS phD with job finding issues, beyond the standard..."would I be bored to death doing this job or not."
Depends on what type of job one is looking for; it depends upon the niche.

- i think that as an algorithm expert one will find places that do value a Ph.D

- as developer/coder you will have to consider that your prospective manager will feel discomfort at managing you (regardless of the applicants coding skills); A manager needs somebody who gets the job done, he does not need somebody smarter/more educated than his own person.
The statement you objected to was "the competitive culture pressures you into continuing." You vociferously denied the concept - "Hogwash!" - and denied any sense of culpability ("you have no one to blame but yourself").

Now you say that there may be culpability, but that "it won't come close in normal gyms".

Thank you for changing your mind!

In any case, the evidence presented is that involuntary urination, throwing up, and rhabdomyolysis are three example of things which occur at a higher rate at CrossFit gyms than others.

These are not healthy things for the body, and are to be avoided, yes? If the competitive culture pressure is not an influence for the increased rate, then what is? Poor training practices?

Or is the presented data incorrect?
We have unfortunately already occupied much of our neighbor's garden, should we destroy our farms and cities and return all these land to animals?
Indeed, and who says this guy has the management and commercial skills to be able to pull it off? As I think many people here know, starting a business is way more than just the concept & application.
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A big piece I found missing missing from the original article is the question of engagement: how do companies know that you're going to like the job? The kind of person who enjoys an academic career may not enjoy a software development career because the activities and values involved are rather different.

I moved from academics (freshly graduated computer science PhD) into software development four years ago and when I did I had to answer a lot of questions about why I wanted to make the move.

My experience is of course not universal but I think that career trajectory is a big part of senior interviews once it's been established that you can do the job. It's a broader issue than just academics vs industry. No matter what field you're in, you have to sell you your career transitions as 'make sensing' to the jobs you're applying to. Job searching from the company side is more complicated than accumulating experience and rewards (the Porsche in the original article) to end up being granted a job.

I wrote up some longer thoughts on this: http://www.davehking.com/2013/09/22/jumping-from-academics-i...
worldwide rollout

But there was no such rollout. An unreleased version leaked.
I don't think Google needs it. Once they finally get around to integrating Hangouts with SMS, they'll have a pretty competitive platform.
> How is that to the detriment of every contributor? They can simply opt out of using that driver.

No, it doesn't work like that. You can't make driver X in the kernel GPL without making the whole kernel code GPL.

> You are trying to decide for those "few" people that they are better off without working drivers. Maybe some people do like having working graphic cards or working sound.

Aside from the fact that sound works better in FreeBSD compared to Linux (because of OSS4) and that graphics is at least on par with Linux (or better; the proprietary FreeBSD driver continues to work without recompiling the kernel shim every time the kernel is updated), you are completely missing the point. Some guy who complains on the Internet that FreeBSD doesn't work on his laptop is of no value to FreeBSD. Valuable users are those who contribute code, those who run large installations, and those who use the code to build their products. These always take priority and every decision happens with them in mind, not random dudes on the Internet. You're complaining about sound and graphics? I'm having a hard time believing this is a serious discussion, why not complain about the lack of sound and graphics on a PIC32 microcontroller.

> FreeBSD has a linux compatibility layer, which mean they can often run said GPL drivers through its port system.

No, this is impossible. Linuxemu is a compatibility layer for Linux user-mode binaries. It emulates the Linux system call interface. It cannot be used with Linux drivers. As mentioned above, the driver model is very different between different operating systems.
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How would this compare to http://www.rfduino.com?
Linked in is the only social network that's managed to link me to other people in ways i cannot explain.

An example: I had a real life connection to a trainer, i studied for an industry qualification with him. I had zero online line connections to him. Somehow linked in put us together.

His profile mentioned nothing about taking that course, mine mentioned nothing about attending his course. My work handled all the procurement side of things so he had no access to my email address or anything like that.

In credit to linked in, this guy happened to be the best trainer i'd ever studied with so i was actually pleased to see the recommendation. Still wondered how they managed it though!
It's common industry jargon in the US, tongue-in-cheek like so much other jargon, and widely used by people to describe even their own jobs. You're ascribing a sense of malice to something that carries none.
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Btw - you mention grocers giving tons of food, is actually not true. It's a very slow process, taking a way too long to become a popular trend. Hopefully with this latest story and initiative that other large/med/small grocers jump on board.

The poor/needy in the US are eating fast food more and more, as they can't afford groceries, with high costs for meat, vegetables and milk all rising. I'm excited to see how this program is launched and copied.
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Guessing the dimensions of an image with n pixels is equivalent to factoring n, so good luck with that! And only if your luck is really good (prime width and height) will there be a unique solution—actually you still don’t know whether to choose portrait or landscape. It gets even more interesting if you don’t know the number of channels or the pixel format.
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It makes sense if you think of the X and Y axis as being drawn on paper, which usually lies flat on the desk.
> Snowden killed the USA-centric internet.

Which - without doubt - is a good thing, for foreigners
like me as well as for us citizens who do not want to depend on a trusted government for free communication.
The ones I find most useful while coding are

ci"
ca)

The i and a here are "in" and "around"

So you can be anywhere inside a quote and do "change inside quotemark" and it'll delete everything inside and leave you in insert mode. "around" would delete everything inside and the quotemarks.

These can be used with other things, parentheses, square brackets (and I think some plugins extend it to html tags and the like).

Of course, you can swap out c for d, y or any of the other verbs.

Working in clojure and deleting everything inside a particular level of nested parentheses is awesome.
I'd love it if Blackberry switched to Android. The top-end Bolds look great, and you just can't beat their keyboards for smashing out a length of text longer than a sentence.
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The saddest announcement about OS X 10.9 was that Apple will add LinkedIn support. No one should support a cheap scam company like them, much less bake them into the operating system :(
Misleading title,

"As a result we are not planning to release further updates to Skype for Windows Phone 7. However the Windows Phone 7 app will remain available to download in the Windows Phone Store, so users can still keep using the core Skype experiences, such as Chat, Voice and Video Calls."
> I never gave LinkedIn my email creds (I'm astounded that they have the gall to ask for my email password)

Well, why not? I've recently given in and created a Google account again; they're doing the same thing. I even had to confirm in a pop-up box that I really don't want to give them access to my emails. (And that I really don't want to follow celebrities on G+.)

I don't know why the EU goes after cookies but not after the practise of asking for email passwords.
I agree with you about feedback in the academia but what common kind of adversity in the corporate world puts you out of work in a few days as opposed to the next layoff at least months down the line?
The infamous Google/Gmail hack December before last was specifically targeted at an internal Google system designed to allow access by law enforcement.

At the time it was made to sound like it was used by conventional warrants, but it is pretty clear now it was probably mostly used by for FISA requests.

The (allegedly Chinese-linked) attack successfully penetrated that, and used it to access email accounts used by Chinese dissidents.
Along the same lines, albeit much less compact - a 99-line Path Tracer (the next evolution from a straight-up raytracer, performing global illumination calculations):

http://www.kevinbeason.com/smallpt/
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In my experience the same "force" occurred with the iPhone. Execs bought them and wanted their corporate mail on them.
If people are interested in digging into this kind of thing, there are some very interesting papers on the subject:

http://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&q=sketch-based+proto...

One of the bigger chunks of funding has come from the U.S. military, which wants to let commanders sketch battlefield diagrams like they do on paper, but get computerized results, both for dissemination, and for use in things like simulations (where typical RTS interfaces are too foreign to be good for realistic wargaming): http://www.qrg.northwestern.edu/papers/files/forbususherchap... / http://www.cs.northwestern.edu/~gdunham/papers/nuwar-AIIDE05...
* Are you truly focused on the job at hand or are you focused on proving your credentials?

The difference is subtle, but its a trap that many highly qualified people fall into. I'm under the impression that the author spent a lot of time talking about his PHD and what he knows rather than the problems at hand.

* Are you sure you are not overvaluing yourself? Jobs are in short supply, PHD looks like risk.

And the example with the Ferrari was awful - if the luxurious car was on sale with a marginally lower price it would sell. Faster, the lower the price.
Mary Lou from Codrops has a neat tutorial about making a similar grid layout: http://tympanus.net/codrops/2013/06/19/dynamic-grid-with-tra...
Lol. I bet you 1000 to 1 that you don't have a PhD.
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I've never really gotten into the arduino scene, mainly because I'm too dumb to understand EE.

This project seems pretty cool though, I like the stackable nature of the modules.
A similar thing happened to me in college (compounded by the bank charging me another $35 every day until I had money again) and I was lucky I had a paid-for place to live and a paid-for meal plan to scrape through till payday.

Pew has a nice little infographic depicting your exact situation: http://www.pewtrusts.org/our_work_report_detail.aspx?id=8589...

Banks mostly stopped transaction reordering when it got a lot of attention post-financial crisis, but they're slowly going back to it, so some orgs and the CFPB are starting to shine a light on the problem again.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/halahtouryalai/2012/02/22/are-ba...
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This is not a new product.
Here is a history list of this product and its price in China:
http://rate.taobao.com/user-rate-174397421.htm
Well, you can check if the image matches common resolutions and aspect ratios - if there are 307200 pixels, for example, a pretty good guess is that it's 640x480 (or 480x640). You'd need a human to see if the image looks correct - actually, with a simple GUI, it wouldn't take a human very long at all to figure out the correct aspect ratio. This could probably be automated easily enough using some pattern recognition - the "shearing" pattern caused by guessing the width wrong is pretty linear and well-behaving.
What do the colors mean?
Blackberry is the Canadian government's to save
Historically I've been a fan of LinkedIn. But one example of something that's started to bother lately are the endorsements. Most of my endorsements come from people who don't even know what the words mean. If they're going to offer this fine-grained endorsements then they should be meaningful, but they're not because they just spam out prompts to get users to endorse each other. This creates almost infinite inflation in the real value of endorsements, which of course doesn't matter one whit to LinkedIn because they own the printing press, rather it is just a cheap engagement driver for them.
GMail has a little trick that you can postfix anything to your email address username separated with a "+". For example my.name+linkedin@gmail.com.

Later this +postfix makes it easier to find out which source is the leak.

Most of the websites let you sign up with "+" in your e-mail but unfortunately not every site.

The other trick is that GMail ignores "." in email user so my.name can be just as well "myname". Not that it helps with the spam, just a sidenote.
I went to a job interview at G-Research in London earlier this year, spending 7 hours there. Afterwards my recruiter told me, they were surprised how strong I was (despite having a Ph.D. and all), but they just wished I had shown a little more effort during the interview. I later found out that "a little more effort" was code for: You should have worn a suit instead of your hoodie. So glad I didn't get this job :-)
> security risk

That's bullshit. The only security risk is if as a parent, you don't know where your child is and who she is with.

I've no scientific data to show for this, but I'm pretty sure that phones are detrimental to child development. Schools are filled with braindead children who spent their whole classes texting on their phones (anecdotal evidence from several teachers of mine). And this is getting worse, because the average age at which children are given their first cell phone is decreasing. You probably wouldn't give your children unrestricted access to television, I guess. Why allow them unrestricted access to a screen then ?

> Kids not fitting into their peer group
Well, considering the toxic environment that most schools are, your kid will probably get picked on anyway (for whichever superficial reason, because kids are significantly sensitive to peer pressure and thus tend to follow the most vocal and most horrible of their peer groups).

As Louis C.K. says it:
"Just because the other stupid kids have phones doesn't mean that, OK, my kid has to be stupid otherwise she'll feel weird"
1. W3Fools did this post a year ago, at least.

2. Your time and effort is better served contributing to http://webplatform org, which has the collective financial might of Adobe, Apple, Facebook, Google, HP, Intel, Microsoft, Mozilla, Nokia, Opera and the W3C.
We are discussing it on HN, right?
Great post, but I don't think the parent was attempting to make some kind of rhetorical point, merely asking an honest question.
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That's more about understanding big business politics than it is about social intelligence.
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Once you know how to switch between modes, it's easy to use vim as a basic text editor using the cursor keys.

At that point I wouldn't start looking things up all the time. Just set out to learn one new command or shortcut every two days, applying it in your daily use. Usually that's enough to get them in your mid-term muscle memory, so that you continue to use when you move on to the next command. The Vim pocket guide is great to choose what's up next.

I was already fairly adept at Vim when I applied this method to teach myself less frequently used Vim commands.
> Where were you [@rayiner] when the Sentencing Guidelines were proposed in 1987? When they became law on November 1, 1989?

Judging from the on-line information available about him, he was three years old, or thereabouts.
Yes, it's funny how our brain works. I wouldn't be able to write down passwords that I use daily. Therein lies a pitfall - once you start think about a particular password, it becomes much harder to type it in.
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