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Show HN: Name That Blue - How well do you know your digital brand colors?
Can you tell Facebook's blue from Instagram's blue? Know your Twitter from your Dropbox? Test your skills using my latest hack:

Name That Blue
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Most of the hex values are sourced from http://brandcolors.net/ (thanks @galengidman!), but I'm slowly adding others to make the challenge more engaging.

I'd love to know what you think! Thanks
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I feel like you are conflating two thing, religious belief and disbelief of scientific results. There is no reason that these need to be tied together. Of course science conflicts with the latter, but it says nothing about the former. Things that are not provable one way or the other are philosophy not science.
The Magazine teams up with Boing Boing
From the website (http://www.idris-lang.org/):

> Idris is a general purpose pure functional programming language with dependent types. Dependent types allow types to be predicated on values, meaning that some aspects of a program’s behaviour can be specified precisely in the type. It is compiled, with eager evaluation.
128kbps is pretty slow, but it's fine for basic use. That's basically a mediocre EDGE connection like the original iPhone without great coverage, and while it was no speed demon, it was certainly usable. It'll let you send instant messages, and check your e-mail and get directions if you're patient. I could easily see surviving on a plan like this while traveling.
U.S. builders hoard mineral rights under new homes
Some hits, some misses

Obvious miss - "8. Plan a trip – but don't take one" ??

"Don't regret it on your deathbed" - this is a lame feel good idea that directly contradicts most theory.

Live in the moment not (totally) for the future, aka your death bed. You're alive today, live now.

What makes you happy on your death bed doesn't make you happy today.

The point goes on to make a kinda miss. Friends top family for happiness and are more commonly what people have more control over.
If you want to speak in such terms, that would be the case if the prospective employer visited the prospective employee for the interview. When (99.9999% of the time) it's the opposite, I can say that you could give them some feedback to appreciate their...commuting, let's say?
What does the title have to do with the article? Nowhere is open source hardware mentioned.
A Tale of Two Obsoletives
Yeah, there's always more processing on a video that can be done. Shake/Jitter reduction, histogram normalisation, hipster-like (instagram) filters, etc. (Just imagine a real time instagram filter for video on your phone.)

Edit: Plus it means less power used since the processor doesn't need to be on for as long to process the video (duty throttle / pulse width modulation etc).
A strange lonely planet found without a star
T-Mobile has realized exactly what a carrier is supposed to be and ironically named it "Uncarrier". No more subsidizing phones, no more contracts, just a pipe. We will move data between your phone and the world for a flat fee and that is the end of the story. I switched to T-Mobile about a month ago because I agree with their business practices and want to support their growth.
There are some bugs that need actual device usage unfortunately :(
vir·tu·al·ly ˈvərCHə(wə)lē/ adverb
1. nearly; almost. "virtually all those arrested were accused" synonyms: effectively, in effect, all but, more or less, practically, almost, nearly, close to, verging on, just about, as good as, essentially, to all intents and purposes, roughly, approximately
2. by means of virtual reality techniques.

Sorry, pobody's nerfect.
T-Mobile's policies over the past couple of years have really made me want to become a customer. Plans that are actually reasonably priced, explicitly calling out handset subsidies and making them optional, and now this. I just wish their network was a little better!
A little bit related, but taking public transport has improved my life quite a bit. I now have 25 minutes a day where I do nothing but read. It's been terrific.
I agree that good podcasts and audiobooks can make long car travel far more enjoyable.
But given the history of rigged results in this country it is unlikely that this was some mistake in testing the app. The more reasonable explanation is that they just faked the data and accidentally released it. In fact their app probably doesn't even need to actually bring in real data, it just shoots out whatever they tell it.
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>You knowing it's a placebo doesn't cause placebo effect.

Actually it's often the case that even knowing you're taking a placebo still gives results, though smaller than when taking placebo unknowingly.
it can also do 6DOF, but yes, it is a variation on De Bruijn sequences (as these sequences don't wrap around)
They have an unlimited plan for $30
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6148698
Here is my experience with RedHat (and I don't care if they never considered me again - after this I think RedHat is not a place I want to work for anymore).

I submitted my application and the recruiter contacted me a few hours later over email. He said I am put into a candidate pool. I didn't get what that mean but I thought it was cool and it was fast. I was interestd in developing opens tack technology this year and thought it would be cool to work as an intern with RedHat developing openstack.

The recruiter told me to follow him on twitter. I asked him questions on twitter but he didn't respond to my questions on twitter. I thought it was my privacy setting. Okay, let's move on.

I finally got an email a few weeks later. It said something like this:

"After an interview with you we think you lack of the requirements we are looking for..."

(again that's just from my vague memory)

But I clearly remember it said "I HAD AN INTERVIEW".

What bullshit is that? I never had any interview with any redhat person. I was never contacted beyond just putitng me in a candidate pool.

I sent an email back and asked what he meant by interview. He never responded.

Well. Fuck you. That kind of generic response pisses me off and has crushed my dream working on openstack (and anything have to do with redhat in general).

So even for well-established companies, please stop sending generic emails like that. If you have to, please select an appropriate one. In my case say "we have filled up the role. Sorry!"

Find a human to be a recruiter. That recruiter is a damn machine acting like a real human.

after that I was lucky to get an offer from another company. Well. I am so damn happy that I didn't get into RedHat. Totally worth it. It's like I will never work for LinkedIn anyway
>Before unsubscribing, people should enjoy the initial "Reddit experience". Bask in all of the memes and instant gratification humor, enjoy Internet culture at its trashiest.

The front page of reddit isn't even close to "Internet culture at its trashiest." It's more like "Internet culture at it's averageiest"
Microsoft red teamers battle blue for control of infrastructure
Java is not dying, it has just started its long slow decline like COBOL did back in the 1980s. But COBOL is still with us and so will Java be with us for a long time. But the momentum is picking up on alternate JVM languages, in particular Grovy, Scala and Clojure. Of course there is also Python(Jython), JRuby, PHP and many others that run on the JVM, but Groovy, Scala and Clojure are the triumvirate that is picking up steam and will end up pushing Java down into the depths where, like C, it will remain as the tool of choice for building JVM libraries.

The Oracle JVM is also not the only JVM available these days and there are even some commercial JVMs that are higher performance than Hotspot. I think one could make a strong argument that the JVM will outlive Java itself by a large margin. Say, Java fades out of common usage by 2050 but the JVM is still going strong in 2150.
I'm not sure you thought that one through. Shoot him in the kneecap. He says "ok fine you're right", then goes home and delivers the people to their deaths. Then flies somewhere and hides.

Being shot in the kneecap is likely to make you run and hide as well as doing the act you've been threatening.

Edit: Kneecapping is only used where you believe the target will actually reform, or as intimidation on someone that doesn't have any leverage (like some poor kid that took out a loan and isn't paying it back). In high-stakes like the one outlined here, it's not relevant.

Also this whole subthread was supposed to be "given these priors" but everyone seems to get hung up on murder, ignoring that other peoples' deaths are regularly accepted in society by pretty much everything we do.
$2 Billion NSA Spy Center is Going Up in Flames
I agree that ChaCha seems like a better function (designed for faster diffusion, better block layout, etc), and it is comforting that fewer ChaCha rounds can be attacked with the same attacks that apply to Salsa. But ChaCha does still represent a substantial change in the core function from Salsa, and I do wonder if it's possible those changes introduce a problem not found in Salsa. To be honest, I really suspect the answer is no, and that ChaCha is a good choice...just surprising given the relative interest in Salsa compared to ChaCha. But maybe your choice will also spur more people to consider ChaCha for both usage and further cryptanalysis.
Donated to the TrueCrypt project once and never heard anything from them even after sending a followup email. Thought the project had died.
This seems a little overblown. Firefox is the only fully open source browser to gain any significant traction, so HTML-DRM as the final blow to the "guiding light that led the web out of darkness" seems a little far-fetchd. (Nitpick: Webkit is not a browser, its a rendering engine)

At the end of the day I'm having trouble understanding what this really means for the Web. Hollywood was never going to stop using DRM. With all the various syndication deals with DRM-clauses in Hollywood contracts, I doubt anyone was going to step up and fight for DRM removal when TWC is blacking out CBS over transmission fees. At the same time, I don't think HTML-DRM will cause Netflix to drop support for Firefox. What most likely will happen is there will be a shim.

This whole thing seems like a giant charade for the w3c to strengthen its relevancy.
Why do you think that is wrong?
I just switched in April after hating life with AT&T and deciding to put my money where my mouth was.

In cities - their coverage is VERY good. Countryside & cross country road trips are where they fall off the map, but I've been very happy paying $80 for unlimited call/text/data + No B.S.

T-Mobile is way behind in terms of users & they know it - which means they're making strong plays against the competition. Makes me want to bet on them for no other reason than to force the other carriers to step up their game.
This is great. I had an incident in Belize this year where I turned off airplane mode to connect to wifi on the boat I was on and my cellular radio auto-connected to Belize's local mobile carrier without me realizing (I had international roaming enabled on my account). My phone started syncing and updating apps in the background and within 2 minutes of passive usage I had amassed $270 in data charges. Only. 2. Minutes.
I plead my case when I got back to the states and they removed the charges without a thought (although I had to send in a written appeal). International data rates are ridiculous and it's nice to see a carrier acting rationally.
Can you clarify that headline a bit?
South African Dept of Education effectively bans FOSS
What is the advantage of this over just using terminal-notifier?
5 years later, mod_python 3.4.1 alpha is available for testing
FWIW, I'm the OP and I've spent most of my time on the hiring side (and spent time writing emails with feedback).
Your report matches my impression of their coverage. I head out of the city just often enough to go with a carrier that has better coverage. I've thought about getting some cheap plan on a better carrier for those occasions, but it's not quite worth the trouble. They're so close!
I'm not sure your point?
I like the idea of auditing TrueCrypt, but I don't see the rationale. Spend the time having everyone transition to GPG (or similar.) TrueCrypt will never be secure.
I just got an email saying they have to pass because they just hired someone with my skill set.

To me this is far more hurtful and depressing than the generic "We do not feel like you are the best fit at this time".
Let's hope they don't run over any "large metallic objects."
I wish there was a service like this.
> alternate hypothesis that mutability of IQ is neutral with respect to evolution but evolving brain structures whose performance in certain tasks can be radically improved in adulthood is difficult, period.

Merely 'difficult' is not much of a counter-argument - almost every component of a human being is at least 'difficult' to design. There doesn't seem to be reason to believe creating higher intelligence is especially more costly, in comparison to the already achieved intelligence.
T-Mobile Drops Overseas Data Roaming Charges in 100+ Countries
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Foxconn using forced student labor to build Sony’s PS4
A little humor here: there is someone a lot of people know can probably jsfuzz Chromium too and get a lot of bug reward. wink wink at someone
So here's a question -- if you send out a standard rejection notice, and someone came back to you and said:

"Thanks for letting me know; sorry to hear we won't be working together at this time.

"If you have any suggestions to give for additions to my skills and portfolio that might make for a more competitive application at some point in the future, I'd love to hear them!"

Would you take the time to give any hints then?

I occasionally send a note to this effect when I miss out on a job that I wanted enough I'd love to be able to reapply later for a similar position.

But I've received a reply precisely once.
I'm curious, why $3,133.7?
Is the board waterproof with this design? If it rains, can I still use it? Most electric boards I've found are not water proof and it's going to suck dragging a 15 pound lode stone when it starts raining.
In China your life is even easier: the government helps you keep and fill in the voting paper. And they are so efficient that you get the results 8 years before the "election" happens. Good thing is that Obama administration and US people are working hard to catch up. Don't worry!
Intel Bay Trail-I SoCs head for embedded systems
Significant location changes weren't enough to trigger the bug by themselves. If you try it in the simulator and no joy, it's natural to go out and try the real thing to be sure.
you'd think that this setup would be much lower cost, but from a quick lookup, these linear sensors (TSL202R) cost more than $8 each in 1k quantity, while you can get a wii controller for about $20. On the other hand, this setup allows for 1000 fps while the wii controller's camera works at 100 fps.
It's not, that's why it's suspicious. Moreover, nobody has been able to replicate the binary blobs they post for download from source.
Rogers reports Canada wide wireless service outage
Oh man. I seriously love you. I've been trying to find a fix for this for about two years now.

My app sometimes launches from the background after the user enters or leaves a region. It looks for a session token (not a password) in the Keychain and would return nil and log the user out. I'm not sure how I never came across kSecAttrAccessibleAlwaysThisDeviceOnly in all my hours trying to find a solution.

By the way, this isn't specific to iOS 7. I've had the same issue since iOS 5.
leetspeak for "elite"
The Mentat wiki at http://www.ludism.org/mentat/ is full of related memory tricks. I call them "tricks" - they really do work. I've used memory palace and peg systems to memorise fairly long chunks of recital.
Poll: What browser do you primarily use?
Wikimedia data (http://stats.wikimedia.org/archive/squid_reports/2013-06/SquidReportClients.htm) suggests that Chrome has a solid lead in terms of usage. I wonder what the HN community uses.

Note: Since these polls let you choose multiple options, please restrict to one mobile-based browser and one desktop browser
Chrome and other chromium-based browsers (like SRWare Iron)
Mozilla browsers (including iceweasel)
Other Desktop Browser
Safari for iOS
Chrome (for iOS)
Chrome (for Android)
Other mobile browser
If the user controls the OS (e.g. by a kernel module) or the Browser (e.g. via a plug-in) then he can capture the audio/video streams.
I switched to T-Mobile last month after Apple released the 5s. This has also been my experience.
Worth noting - as part of the fall out with the AT&T deal - they got a ton of bandwidth from AT&T and they're putting it to good use across their spectrum. Not quite on par with AT&T/Verizon - but getting there!
My company is 22 people. I think we're out of luck.
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It's actually a harder question if you phrase it with cats, animals, and mice! The correct answer is "possibly" (either yes or no), but the cats, animals, and mice question predisposes you to answer with "no".
Okay, I was about to quit T-Mo this winter for Verizon, but I'll stick around a little longer. Points for effort. It's desperately needed to compensate for the shitty coverage.
I'm confused by their page mentioning SSL, is this a normal xmpp client or some form of cloud proxy to my actual server?
this looks bad ass!
Large companies like RedHat have thousands of candidates, and managing a process like that well is really, really hard. Someone was probably going through a batch of resumes in their internal system and accidentally checked the wrong box.

Your comment is actually a wonderful example why sending unsolicited feedback to candidates is a bad idea. If I take half an hour after a long hard day to write thoughtful feedback for you, I really don't want to deal with "what bullshit is that?/fuck you!/I'll tell everyone I know your company sucks" because I accidentally phrase things poorly or confuse an aspect of your interview with five other interviews I did that day.
I am actually not sure what a good explanation would be. The problem is to a large part, that the particle explanation for high energy physics offers no good analogy. ( You will often hear that a photon is exchanged between interacting particles, with the implicit understanding that a photon is something like a billiard ball.) But perhaps I can at least describe the problem better.

The way physicists currently construct theories is based on mathematical symmetries. And in particular the theory of the electro weak interaction is build on a symmetry between the electro magnetic force and the weak force. So this gives the prediction that the weak force should be similar to the electro magnetic force, especially that it should have infinite range. But the experimental observation is, that the weak force acts only on very small distances, usually less than a femto meter.

The solve this problem, Peter Higgs noted that the symmetry between electromagnetism and the weak force should exist in the lofty world of mathematics, while in the messy real world the symmetry is broken somehow. So he invented a additional field, which breaks the symmetry. This is somewhat similar to the claim, that a car can go in any direction (the symmetry), but in realistic situations all cars follow the same road. So the road breaks the symmetry, without taking anything away from the ability of the car to go in any direction.

In quantum field theories forces correspond to particles. And the particles associated with the weak force, W and Z bosons, should therefore be similar to photons, the particles associated with electro magnetism. But a force that acts only on small distances means that the field quanta are massive, unlike photons which are massless. So in this view, the Higgs mechanism adds mass to the W and Z bosons, but does not add mass to the photons. But a better explanation would probably be, that the Higgs field limits the range of the electro weak force to the experimentally observed short distances.
Shouldn't be - and I don't want to sound cocky here.

If they pick their hires randomly like that then you don't want to work with such a team, do you?
Your example isn't remotely close to being analogous to the argument that was made. If you stick a thermometer in hot water, it is measuring the water's temperature accurately. If an individual studies for a specific type of IQ test, that particular IQ test fails to accurately measure his general intelligence.

The IQ test is generally accepted because there aren't any practical applications where a near-perfect measurement of a person's intelligence is going to be a matter of life and death, the same cannot be said for the measurement of temperature.

Basically, it doesn't matter that an IQ test isn't perfect. It is accepted because it does a merely adequate job in most cases, and even if it happened to be manipulated by someone who studied for a specific version of the test, no significant damage will be done to anything or anyone.

Just to be clear, I don't have a grudge against IQ tests, in fact, I scored in the 140s on a test administered by a psychologist. I'm just saying that they are highly susceptible to manipulation (Don't worry, I didn't even know I was taking it until I arrived at his office).

The entire field of psychology is in its infancy, it is one of the least developed of all sciences. We are making quite a bit of progress, but there's still a long way to go. There are a lot of really strange ideas that are accepted by experts that are going to be proven wrong as soon as our understanding of the mind matures sufficiently.
It's certainly plausible it could have been a screwup using test data. However given the situation in that country it also seems plausible that it could have been a screwup with the fraudulent data. The article did say "flimsy" after all not "demonstrably false."
I always send constructive feedback if someone sends me a followup email like that. We're a small company though, getting a useful reply out of a large organization can be much harder unless you manage to get an e-mail of one of your interviewers.
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For me, that's not the painful part. The painful part is the six week limit.

When I was in Taiwan, I was handed a prepaid dumbphone and a 4G wireless hotspot with iffy battery life and some indoor coverage issues.

Being able to send/receive SMSs and brief phone calls with my smartphone's home number, and keep up on email and light browsing on my own phone without being at the mercy of the hotspot, would have been very nice, but I was there for ~9 months split into two trips during the course of a year.

I would gladly pay an extra $10-20/month (with $0.20/minute voice) for such capability over an extended period, but that wasn't, and apparently still is not, an option.
It doesn't work that way. In an autocratic country, behavior like this will eventually be rewarded even though they might pretend to punish it at first place. Every corrupted officer in China gets promoted later some time after they are exposed and "punished" if they keep their mouth shut.
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I think macklemore already showed the world how to handle marketing: Instead of signing the rights to your music over to a label in exchange for their marketing talent, simply hire the label to do your marketing for you. apparently they're open to that.