skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think he is talking about the closed form expression (at least I know what a closed-form is and still couldn't understand the question).

There was no information whatsoever about what changes on each iteration... if nothing changes then the answer would be a constant of whatever rabbits were at the beginning... and that doesn't sound about right :/
Having recently changed my password with PayPal, I somehow doubt they are serious about security. They enforce a maximum length limit, disallow spaces and other "non-printable" characters (!), etc.
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The only open plan office I ever worked in dedicated ~200 square feet of space per employee, which is probably unlike most open plan offices.

It was probably the most productive I ever was - you were able to get up and just go talk to someone, but you couldn't talk to them from your desk without disrupting everyone else.
Yes, it was very impressive to see just how little flapping was involved.
Ah, this is just beautiful.

There's a whole community flying model airplanes trough a camera and video goggles:
http://vimeo.com/16604842
Looks great! It's probably slightly more iOS-7-ey to replace the hamburger icon with the text 'Menu' - but then you'd have to go the full hog and have a white overlay so that you can color the actionable text.

Having a white overlay may draw more attention to the progress bars though, which can only be a good thing :)
The logo looks bad in small sizes - two o's are jammed together to much comparing to the rest of the letters. If the author wants to play with "infinity" symbol, the closer distance between two letters must be visually compensated somehow. Either the rest of the letters must be jammed in the same way, or these o's should be widened, or linked not that closely.

And yes, it's not a full rebranding. It's only a logo.
The last bullet is the biggest tripping point:

> You have to like the people you work with to like an open-plan office.

Most places adopt an "open" plan for two reasons: 1) it costs less, and 2) to keep an eye on the minions. Most "open" floors conveniently have large, closed offices for the execs. That's to establish dominance. They always have windows facing the open floor, so that everyone knows they're being watched. These are the kind of "open" offices that are way more common. It's tough to like everyone when somebody feels like they're under constant surveillance.

It's no coincidence that I get my best work done at home, when I am free to think clearly without interruption, or the paranoia of being observed.
The number of obvious bugs [1] included lends a lot of weight to the impression of it being more about sniping than criticism.

[1] z-index, text overlap, mixed states, etc.
These are not questionable design choices. They're bugs. And lumping them in only detracts from the site and the many legit design gripes (problems of focus, alignment, contrast, usability, etc.)
I'm not sure this is legal, or should be legal. I hope the EU will do something about this.
That's not a problem, it's a solution. To you losing your sanity ;)

Sometimes it's best just to laugh at the sheer insanity of it all. We'll get there guys, but it might take a couple hundred years.
It's definitely not a source control replacement, but I think dropbox themselves have been pushing their service as a cloud backup solution for quite some time. I don't think it's unreasonable to expect that you are able to use up the space allotted (or payed for) however you may choose.
I understand open-plan office may work for some folks, but it didn't for me. Wearing headphones all day is uncomfortable and I could still hear noise. The noise for me is a distraction and makes it difficult to code... Plus no privacy to relax. Sometimes you need some quiet time to think out a solution. ( or go for a walk derp)
I agree. I absolutely hate visual distractions. They occur constantly in the open office I'm in. It used to be worse as my desk faced a popular meeting room, but it's still pretty bad.
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The Kottke via link also has a link to a Perigrine Falcon hunting a duck:

http://kottke.org/13/05/peregrine-falcon-killing-a-duck-in-m...

or

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2W6lD7re2Po

The camera mounting makes it a little tiresome to watch but doesn't really make it less interesting.
I'm actually happy to see this comment because it means I don't have to make it. I appreciate the effort put into this but I don't think its going to be a helpful resource.

I clicked expecting a well thought out strategy for organizing concept maps on a large scale but instead this is some individuals idea on how best to organize their own thoughts. In fact, not once in the entire document is the term "concept map" even used which makes me think that this person has spent zero time researching established techniques on the subject.

Concept maps are great. I've used them in the past and wish I could get in the habit of maintaining them more often. If you're interested in capturing and organizing your own thoughts, I'd highly recommend you look into concept maps. This on the other hand, I'm not sure what this is and I certainly wouldn't recommend you follow it.
Hostgator did the same to me too! I also moved onto a different host. Here's the email they sent me when I asked for more info:

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Thanks! I just fixed it.
This is not a closed form thought... (although it sounds about right)
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I wish they would have shown the eagle landing, that would have been interesting to see.
Namecheap did this to me a while back. For some reason I must have appeared fraudulent, although I can't imagine why.

They (IIRC) asked for a photo of an ID card with the name of the person on the credit card and a photo of something tying that name to the address provided.

Our drivers licenses have our addresses on them. Sent in a photo of a driver's license with all the other information obscured... So it was just the government's identifying marks, the name, address, and photo. The license number, height, weight, barcode, etc were all obscured. In retrospect, a nice big watermark that said "FOR NAMECHEAP ONLY" would have maybe been a good addition.

It was sufficient for them.

I saw no issues with it as far as a security measure. It wouldn't take much to find my name, picture, or address just digging around online - never mind with access to my email.
Yes, likely a bird kept for falconry.
Thanks for all the ideas!
It's gotten little better overnight but the keyboard input lag is still there - I type a bit fast in any text area and characters appears slowly - some time after multiple key presses. So are the slower animations. Lot of people are saying to DFU and reinstall to fix it - I am reluctant as I have to restore a bunch of things - PDFs, iTunesU stuff, music and videos manually.
So this is what being Gandalf feels like.
"let's not rule out a possible contributing factor" is a long way off "pointing the finger".
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Will you continue supporting Ubuntu / Non-redhat kernel versions as well as previously? Or does this portend a move like what happened with Gluster?
He would have started with a better keyword list if he'd cribbed the spook.lines file from Emacs' spook.el extension. I've been using this since the eighties in various places, as have others.
It seems like people are disagreeing with you, but i've installed it on my 4S and the animations are stuttery and slow every now and then. Often enough for it to be annoying and noticeable.
Lovely logo redesign, makes Google feel like a younger company. I doubt they'd ever do it this drastically, but you never know.

I assume these are slides from a talk - would've liked to have some text accompanying them for some context.
From the HotSpot source code:

// this infelicity should be fixed.
> inadequate options of corrugated metal and ...

Isn't corrugated metal awesome for 3rd world shacks? Drill some holes, attach with screws and seal holes. It's strong, watertight and can go a long time without maintenance.
Disabling JavaScript lets me read the site without enabling the social stuff. I noticed that the content seems to be there, but then gets removed, presumably by JavaScript.

(Ghostery+Chrome here)
And here's some gorgeous video of people slope soaring RC gliders. It's amazing how similar the flight is to the eagle's.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UPopSm4bfAQ
>We eradicated smallpox for everyone, without distinction between rulers and ruled.

Notwithstanding the daughter comment that disproves this, try substituting 'smallpox' for 'cancer'. Cancer treatment is by no means available to everyone, or even the majority, yet it extends lifespans (of good people and dictators alike). Should we not have developed treatments for cancer?
This is outright hillarious, I love it.
GPS grafitti
Looks like the same Identity to me. just a redesign of the logo. Bad timing for him/her since Google recently released a simplified version that looks better.
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So, I read the article and your summary is very poor - quite intellectually dishonest, really. He clearly lays out the conditions which would have to hold for Android to grow significantly, and it turned out that they were met (Nokia collapsed, Windows proved unable to compete with free, and Samsung was able to establish a viable Android business)
How many of these failures are due to insufficient testing on i18n?

IMHO, using texts to replace icon based buttons is clever to simplify the working of screen resolution adaption, however, it does increase the possibility of inconsistency between different locales. I still remember NYTimes.app for iPad displayed ugly aligned date texts which is just too long to fit into the space left for them, only in Chinese locales, which they do not officially support, and I doubt that they really did testing on it.
> perfect copies are impossible.

Sure. But from one nanosecond to another, we're perturbed by thermal noise, without any qualms about what that noise does to ourselves.

I think we can safely assume that a copy whose imperfections are on the same order as thermal noise is a second original. That, or we admit that room temperature is enough to change us.
Nobody is saying UX and graphic design are the same.
But even graphic designers have practical concerns that override aesthetics. Choice of typography must suit readability. Layout must emphasize the most important elements of a document in a visual hierarchy.

The things I see on dribble's home page are pretty, not practical. And all the circlejerking in the comments threatens to turn the site into a web designer's version of DeviantArt.
I'm confused. If I give my card to company A, but somehow along the line someone gets the details and uses it buy something at company B. And there was no way to link it to company A. How is company A having any risk whatsover?

I believe it's company B, the one who accepted a fraudulent order the one at risk. The company I have no relationship whatsover. My only risk is to check if I have charges I didn't make.
Removable battery and SD card slot.

After a year I won't have to put up with the question of "should I try opening it up to change out the battery?". Plus I can drop 64gb of storage into a 16 gb model, and keep expanding that as memory densities increase.
For example, you can improve performance by using copy-on-write via the MMU. However, Linux/Win/OSX will not allow you access the MMU. Within a VM you can do that.
Are you certain that is how velocity is registered?

I mean, you could be right for all I know, but I own a number of devices (drum pads, specifically) which register velocity but which don't require that kind of latency to create the information; I don't see why or how that would be the case in most keyboard controllers.
If it's malicious, that is, changes things without express consent, then it's malware. No debate. End of story. Malware is a parasite.

Crapware is something that's installed and shows up on your desktop, may even start automatically and produce pop-ups all the time, but doesn't alter the behavior of other applications. It's just junk, but it's not inherently detrimental or damaging. Crapware applications are barnacles.
That's a super cynical way to interpret this. I found the tumblr useful in aiding me in my decision whether to immediately upgrade to iOS 7 or not.
What? They fixed that? Nope, searching anything with "verse" still makes Google think it knows better than you and searches for "vs" instead.
Apple did not give the 5C a "small screen" to save money. Saying that a "small screen" is evidence that the 5C is cheap is misleading.
No headphones please.

Seriously.

If someone really wants to listen to music, cool, headphones. If someone wants to text their friends 80% of the day that is also cool (connections bring support and inspiration).

Headphones are an escape from discomfort.

Open plan offices are great. When they're split into discrete environments. Teams and individuals feel comfortable and where results happen. Have an open plan office, and have a whole load of 8 foot plants and wheel based whiteboards on order for no cost / requisition approval so people make their own space.

It is neither expensive nor rocket science, but misses the main point: have a structure where 1-1s are conducted daily between whatever people management scheme is in place.
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Does it mean "Everyone in the US should read Ayn Rand!"
like "You morons, make more anarcho-capitalism!!!"

or "Everyone in the US has read Ayn Rand..."
like "The capitalsm made us morons!"
The crowded train was an example (but a real life one). It's also demonstrating that they called me (and so I'm unable to pick the place).
I agree. I worked in an open plan office in my last company with 20 other developers. I liked it a lot better than here where there are 5 other developers and 4 non developers in this room.
Is there an actual article here? I'm seeing only this pull quote and nothing else:

> With the purchase of a series, we look at what does well on piracy sites.

– Kelly Merryman, VP of content acquisition at Netflix
I agree, it would also have been nice if it was possible to mount the camera a little further back to see some of the wing action particularly when changing direction or avoiding obstacles like the tree.

Excellent nonetheless, very reminiscent of base jumper Jeb Corliss' - Grinding the Crack http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TWfph3iNC-k (1:35-1:45 of the video gets me everytime)
I've watched this video several times and enjoyed it. But I'm skeptical about the claim that it was "questioned" or that they really thought the image might have come out completely black. Did any scientist think that between us and the edge of the observable universe there was absolutely nothing?

Another minor nitpick: between this video and a similar one by the same person, the image is said to have been captured in 1995, 1996, or 2003. Which is it? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BG4IEePixoU
I didn't finish the tutorial. For impatient people it takes too long :D

Saying that you can need to put together the same or all different forms/colors/fills should suffice. Whoever doesn't understand that probably won't have much fun with the game anyway.
The corollary to a) that I deal with all the time is third party integrations that are poorly documented and that after some time X start magically working even though the third party changed nothing on their side (according to them). Management always thinks "We've integrated things with this vendor before, it will be a snap to do again on a totally different endpoint" and this is never the case.
Ask HN: FitBit Flex or Jawbone Up
Please let me know if anyone has had experience with either or has another option they like. Reviews of wearable tech are all over the place. I am leaning toward the Jawbone but it sounds like quality just isn't there yet. (http://bgr.com/2013/08/15/jawbone-up-vs-fitbit-flex-review/)
Yes, we will still support Ubuntu, and other non-redhat kernel versions.

This is basically just expanding our current abilities to include areas where we didn't have great support before.

The goal is to have Docker running on all linux platforms, so that everyone can use it regardless of their distro choice.
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No, Docker is not becoming red hat - specific. From a technical standpoint this announcement means two things:

1) Docker 0.7 will run on vanilla kernels out of the box. This means virtually all distros will be supported. It also means wider support for hosting providers which don't allow custom kernels (Google Compute Engine for example).

2) Future versions of Docker will optionally support some of the technology used by Red Hat - most prominently libvirt-lxc and selinux.

The more places you can use Docker, the more useful it is :) So we have no intention of locking it into a single distro or paas.
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If they bought/had control of T-Mobile why would that prevent Android phones from being sold on Verizon/AT&T/Sprint let alone on other carriers around the globe?
> Are our employees lying to us when they claim that the open offices lead to more collaboration and create a more communal atmosphere?

No, probably not. But I think you're asking the wrong questions. While these things may be true, it doesn't in any way mean your employees are more productive or happier. And it certainly doesn't mean that, given the choice, they would take a distracting, collaborative, communal, noisy atmosphere over their own private quiet office.
> You have to like the people you work with to like an open-plan office.

I like the people I work with, but they're adults who still think that shooting nerf guns at each other is amusing. Every day. This is a problem.
Toxoplasma seems to affect human behaviour too: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2526142/?tool (incidentally, I was part of this research as one of the subjects)
If it can be read over the phone, or written on the outside of mail order catalogs. Why is it not ok to send it via email?

Reading it over the phone people around you can hear it, and say you have children who then go on to use it, are you going to call that fraud (and potentially have something brought against your children)?
I was just about to type how the footage is very similar to videos like http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mxBM-JLNyBg
These guys are playing with fpv r/c drone-things.
The UK allows employees to opt-out of the working time directive. My experience was that you signed the opt-out by default when signing your contract. You could always opt back in again, but the cultural pressure to do overtime was huge, and you could kiss good bye to any bonuses if you don't crunch. Without bonuses the pay was crap.

[edit] I'm not talking specifically about Rockstar or games companies - this is standard practice in many sectors.
I'd watch a 4 hour movie of this, i was so disappointed when the video stopped
Not everyone is alike.
Not everyone works best in the same environment.
Not everyone knows what environment works best for them.
Not everyone feels secure enough to tell you what they actually think about your open-plan office.

600 people? How many of them work from home every chance they get? How many would rather have a private office if it were available to them?

Have these questions even been asked of the workforce?
Spies of Saruman! The passage South is being watched.
This shouldn't really be that much of a surprise. To me, Netflix has always seemed to be halfway between purchasing a series and pirating it. It'd be interesting to see someone crunch the numbers and see if releasing a series on Netflix decreases the rate of piracy for that particular property. I have a hunch that it does, and if it does the same is probably true for other digital distribution networks, i.e. Hulu, Steam and Amazon Prime.

But what do I know? :)
Repeat after me: piracy is not theft.
That's what I was wondering... I'd assume it's a trained eagle. Wouldn't want the eagle to be stuck with a camera on it's back.
This is why they use git - subversively inserting code into git is not possible like it is with CVS
> Apple doesn't really benefit from people using web on their iOS devices.

Not directly. But if you buy a tablet and it sits in the drawer, you probably won't buy the next one.
I see what you're saying, but (0 == current->uid) still makes my eyes bleed
I said it was built cheap. That has literally nothing to do with any other Apple phone, and your counterpoints are not counterpoints at all. Many competitor phones are coming with much more expensive 5"+ 1080p IPS screens.
Quick, someone call Kevin Rose!
Uh. How about no. At this point, Google is Catrull. Those g's are instantly recognisable. This logo is far too geometric. It looks too techy, too cold.
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