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I always pronounce it "PU PHP Pet." Which I guess is logical because elephants.
Aye, I've played with it. But, lovely as it is, it doesn't have the momentum that BeOS (briefly) had, before MS's OEM contracts crushed it.
I haven't tried the game yet, but I'd just like to point out that your website gave me some motion sickness (and I generally don't have a problem with that) because of the background patterns.
Builders of Obama's health website saw red flags
Amazon UK used to be no limit but it's now £10 limit. However, this can be bypassed slightly by adding any media item (for example CD/book/DVD).

A lot of people had fun finding the cheapest piece of media, I think someone found a warehouse full of 10p cassette tapes at one point being sold by a company and handled by Amazon, thus giving people 10p shipping for orders under £10.

Regardless, if you have 4 friends you can split the cost of prime up to 5 ways (yourself + 4 friends) for next day. In my experience, at least, this has worked even delivering to different addresses. You have to list them as family members, 3 of my "family" are housemates and a fourth lives down the road.
Now you're just making shit up.
Re: Compete on economics of their vehicle - Just like Apple does with their products?...

World's cheapest car @ $2,500 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kxWq9bKRmc0

Great photography by the way! :)
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We're working on pricing now. No timetable at the moment, but you do get 1 app for free. We know its really important and we're working on it now.

We'd be happy to talk to you further about it and get your feedback.
OSHW devices can get a PID from Openmoko's range, and closed source devices can either go fuck themselves or buy a PID from http://www.mcselec.com/index.php?page=shop.product_details&f...

The USB-IF can go fuck themselves either way. There is no place for them in this world, and I hope they disappear as soon as reasonably possible.
I have a few that are kind of free:
http://portnine.com/bootstrap-themes
There are a few language corners that don't translate, such as:

var x = "".constructor(5);
// The property 'constructor' does not exist on value of type 'String'.

The exceptions make sense if you dig into how the type system works. AFAIK these can always be worked around with an explicit cast to any:

var x = (<any>"").constructor(5);

I've found TypeScript to be a huge win for maintainability, and can't imagine going back to raw JS for an app of any complexity. I'd love to have a chance to pair it with Node for something.
Bad experience: Joined a space in March, it closed before the end of May. Found out it was at severe risk of closing a week into my membership, without ever being told about it as I was checking the space out. They had a 30-day termination notice clause in membership contract, which had to match up to the billing cycle. So I was locked into that second month even though I knew the time there was, more or less, wasted.

In my case, I was looking for a space with people I could interact with and get to know and be comfortable and happy around ('coworkers', natch). The looming death of the space totally killed any potential for that to happen. That's why I consider the time/money a waste.

Lesson: ask how "healthy" the space is when you're "interviewing" the space.
Nope!
http://i.imgur.com/kwxQTDc.png
I recently decided the correct pronunciation is "puff-et"... like "elephpant"!
Nice work. Are you selling it on any other websites or just html5admin.com?
Maybe they are just trying to push more people over to prime
Laughed at the idea, but the site isn't funny...
Wow. Amazon must read HN.

We just decided on another thread that free shipping should start at $35. Great job.

;)
Ironically, now that he's gotten this posted to Hacker News, his blog really _is_ going to be about Disqus now.
> Interoperable means that things operate together and they undoubtably do in the MPEG4 ecosystem.

No, they don't. Technical feasibility to interoperate is only part of the picture. I clearly said above, that any participant should have an equal ability to interoperate legally. This includes no barriers to enter. License is like a visa to a country - it's a barrier to enter (which makes it not open).

If it's still not clear, license means "only those who can afford can use the encoder" and etc. Only those who can afford is a barrier to enter. I hope this is clear. Open codecs ensure equal accessibility and no barriers to enter. Encoders and decoders are available to everyone equally.

Pushing Apple and Co to support open technologies? It's only a natural thing to expect, since now they have a disproportionate grip as gatekeepers (in this context - it's about controlling codecs with patents). That was the whole point above, and that's exactly why Apple opposes it so strongly. It comes back to the same thing - control. You can call it an evil plot on their part, a basic instinct (desire for power) or whatever. But they clearly are allergic to the idea of the open Web, because it leaves them less leverage and makes it better for the people.

> If you want open codecs to become ubiquitous the next generation is where the fight is now.

Google does a lot with enabling VPx support in hardware. It's more up to OS developers to support it in software now. Hardware (at least mobile SoCs) is shaping up well. With wider usage of WebRTC things will get even better, since WebRTC mandates open [free] codecs (here Apple and Co. didn't manage to sabotage it). The next big thing is Daala, which is next generation to both VP9 and H.265. That won't appear in hardware soon.
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Google's Constitute: the world's constitutions to read, search and compare
I use PyCharm, which has most all of WebStorm in it. I'm a huge fan of JetBrains cross-platform dev tools. I still use other text-editors often for one-off edits, but most my big team projects get edited with PyCharm.
I really hope you aren't one of the same people who say IE6 and IE7 have to die, and so web developers are right to try to force their users to use modern browsers.

I work with the NHS in the UK; quite a few of the medical professionals are forced to use IE6 or IE7 because the hospital IT staff are managing their medical devices / desktops / network effectively, just as you say.

When Firefox makes a decision like this, what they apparently did not seem to consider is that they are drawing a cutoff line which has serious costs to some of their users. I didn't see any discussion of this whatsoever in the issue thread.

Imagine a relatively forward-thinking hospital that has been able to allow their staff to use fairly-recent versions of Firefox (once new versions have been vetted by IT). Changes like this may force them to stop deploying new versions completely, until some time possibly a decade from now when they're finally able to replace the Java-based UI.
Why doesn't the Europlug have a ground?
If you're ever in Toronto, Canada - https://bentomiso.com is where I work out of. It's pretty open so bring some headphones.

However they only do events/presentations in the evening and have private meetings rooms available.

There is a strong indie-game developer community here and a lot of folks from various creative fields outside web development.
Statistical foundations of machine learning
I'm feeling even better about getting Prime now. It seems like we order stuff almost daily now instead of running to the store. We've more than paid back the $75 in free shipping less than halfway into the 12 month cycle.
If you're doing data analysis, where most libraries are serious about backwards compatibility and you don't necessarily care whether your code still runs two years from now... virtualenvs are sometimes just not worth the bother. (Though I'd still recommend them.)
Has the event started yet? The live stream doesn't seem to be working on the Apple device that I'm using.
Did it, really? Sorry. We didn't think that could happen.
I use headphones in my current open workspace, but I find that there are certain things that I work on that are really better in silence. From Peopleware [1]:

"During the 1960s, researchers at Cornell University conducted a series of tests on the effects of working with music. They polled a group of computer science students and divided the students into two groups, those who liked to have music in the background while they worked (studied) and those who did not. Then they put half of each group together in a silent room, and the other half of each group in a different room equipped with earphones and a musical selection. Participants in both rooms were given a Fortran programming problem to work out from specification. To no one's surprise, participants in the two rooms performed about the same in speed an accuracy of programming. As any kid who does his arithmetic homework with the music on knows, the part of the brain required for arithmetic and related logic is unbothered by music -- there's another brain center that listens to the music."

"The Cornless experiment, however, contained a hidden wild card. The specification required that an output data stream be formed through a series of manipulations on numbers in the input data stream... Although the specification never said it, the net effect of all the operations was that each output number was necessarily equal to its input number. Some people realized this and others did not. Of those who figured it out, the overwhelming majority came from the quiet room."

I don't think there's a problem with listening to music some of the time. My concern is that by constantly having the headphones on to mitigate audible distractions, I'll miss insights that would directly impact the quality of the work that I do.

[1] http://www.amazon.com/Peopleware-Productive-Projects-Teams-E...
It's also nice when you have multiple projects open, each with their own Vagrant settings, to let the IDE manage each one.
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This isn't true. "Each exchange charges a small fee for every trade" Not all exchanges charge fees for posting liquitity. Smaller ECNs will actually pay traders to provide liquitity. If you hit or lift someones bid or offer you will get charged a fee but if you post an order that does not cross against the current market you can get paided for. these rebates are very importatn for HFT desks.
My company has sold a large amount of recovered cables (including terminated and non terminated cat-3/5/6) to an e-waste company for scrap. If you have more than a pound of cables, this might be an attractive option.
The search function doesn't seem to be working.
Can you get access to it after 2.9 months?
Ya, this is a good thing. Ruby started shipping with rubygems since 1.9 and it's worked great.
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"people that have now more money will be able to afford a nicer/bigger apartments"

No not at all. The median dude will always live in the median house and nothing about this will change it.

The primary real estate related effect is a dramatic change in macro societal debt to income ratios which in the long term has some interesting effects on bank assets and liabilities. Its very much like a stealth interest rate cut, with pretty much identical effects. The price of real estate will of course increase across the board, because the sellers know the buyers will have more money to pay mortgages with. The median guy will still sit in the median home, it'll just involve larger numbers in some bank account.

"equal for everybody."

LOL capgains are going to asset holders aka land and business owners and banks, not the joe 6 pack. The primary effect on J6P is getting kicked into a higher income tax bracket thus paying more taxes on a percentage basis. So .gov wins. Pretty much everyone wins but J6P as usual, as designed.
Start time:

07:00 — Honolulu, Hawaii
10:00 — San Francisco, California
13:00 — New York, New York
14:00 — São Paulo, Brazil
18:00 — London, England
19:00 — Rome, Italy
20:00 — Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
21:00 — Moscow, Russia
22:30 — New Delhi, India
01:00 — Shanghai, China (October 23)
02:00 — Tokyo, Japan (October 23)
03:00 — Sydney, Australia (October 23)
I think life expectancy is increasing across the board in the world, but race plays a difference.

America is home to a lot of different races. Look at the races of the population over 80 and how it changed since 1950s.
Our company sells a lot on Amazon yearly - the split of sales using Prime, the $25 free shipping, or nothing is about 33% each. I wonder how that will change.
Well...where i say "DEV Friendly"...i mean it.

The steps to create a new page would be: 1) grab the "boilerplate template page" 2) start doing your own stuff 3) check out examples in other templates. (5 minutes?)

Plus: all extra JS and CSS are in their place...so you won't take more than 5 minutes to understand where to look at. All the rest is simple custom code (HTML,JS or CSS)...but it's pretty straight forward.

What i'm saying is...i am a developer and i really think it's much more "developer friendly" than all the other templates (10-12) i've been using before creating HTML5 Admin.

JFYI: Even creating your external inclusions of the "top menu" and "right menu" with eg. top-nav.php and left-nav.php won't take you more than 10 minutes.

Apart from that...i invite anybody that criticize the price to build an Administration Template.

Once everything's done (and well commented and well organize) prepare the scripts for distribution, define licenses, prepare the commercial website for selling it, etc. and just then........let me know how long, all that, took and how much is their price :)

We are not machines.
There has been similar changes in their European operations some months back. Many items are no longer covered by complementary postage. Deliveries also seem to take longer to 'ship' (that might be my imagination though). I think it's all related to Prime, them trying to make a subscription service look more valuable by disabling the alternatives.
>You have a chance to make an impact every day, but it’s on the people in your office, and not always the ether of the world out there that everyone talks about.

This is a great tip, really inspirational.
By three days, I mean, I initiate a transfer from bitstamp, and I get it into my thai bank account within three business days. The transfer is always verified and initiated on the other end on the same day I make it.
Some of my coworkers have bought headphones with active noise canceling. Those were a bit expensive but I as I tried them out I can see that they could make a difference. There are cheaper models as well. They don't remove all sound but a large part.
Businesses must embrace the programmable world. Or die.
As indicated in the Tagliamonte piece linked above, be careful deploying with pip. OS or distro tools such as apt-get are usually more appropriate for deployment. Distro maintainers have made commitments that PyPI uploaders have not made. Of course sometimes users need things that are not available from a distro repo, but in that case they're not so much "users" as "testers".
The only draw-back to having a Prime account is TOO MUCH SHOPPING. I make so many impulse one-click buys these days.
I am surprised that the article did not really mention why American life expectancy is relatively low. The answer to this question is well-known and is a related to a unique negative bias in the American statistics rather than older Americans dying earlier.

Put simply, Americans have an anomalously high rate of dying when they are young due to homicide and accidents, particularly vehicular. These are large statistical outliers compared to the rest of the industrialized world. This negatively alters the average life expectancy but does not say much about the life expectancy in the individual case.

If you control for just homicide and vehicular accidents, Americans have among the highest life expectancy in the world despite issues like obesity, and many Americans have negligible risk of those causes of premature death. In terms of deaths due to medical issues (cancer, heart disease, etc), Americans have the highest life expectancy in the world, which offsets the homicide and accident death rates among the young.

There used to be a saying by the people that study life expectancy statistics that the only people on Earth that live longer than Japanese women are Japanese women living in the US. Which is true and captured an essential point about the mixture of factors in life expectancy statistics.
It might if the reasons we were dying between 55-75 were related to poor nutrition and low activity levels. My assumption (always dangerous) is that the things that kill us in those age ranges are diabetes, heart disease and stroke which are all manageable in some fashion through moderation in diet as well as exercise. Once you make it past 75, you've probably been either lucky genetically or you've been living well or some combination of the two.
Yeah, we've been using it for a year. We justified it by switching the $8/mo from netflix to amazon. The streaming isn't as robust but it gets the job done :)
We have a blog post[1] which gives a good outline as to why CurrencyFair beats other options, allowing users to even beat the market rate.

[1] http://www.currencyfair.com/best-exchange-rate

[edit: missing words :( ]
You should write that post! I would love to read it.
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It's the right protocol, but the licensing requirements are a real problem. Whereas RS485 is free but not a complete solution.
John Carmack: 'Mantle only became interesting because of their console wins'
Not impressed. E.g. his knock on the Strategic Defense Initiative ("Star Wars" per its detractors) is on a architectural strawman constructed by its enemies, the people involved planned on sane, somewhat independent defense in depth systems, where one failure of any sort would hopefully be compensated for by the other systems. E.g. "Brilliant Pebbles" were entirely unnetworked except for the necessary "GO!" signal, each would look at its view of the the attack and decide which booster it should try to take out.

And it ignores its stunning political success: the Soviets, after Brezhnev pretty much bankrupted the country with a return to Stalinist repression and all the money spent on the military, especially the 3 complete armies of armor on down supplied to North Vietnam (one used up piecemeal, one destroyed in the first post-"peace" attack, the final succeeded because the Democrats stopped supplying the South with ammo), and the Strategic Rocket Forces.

The latter of which SDI was going to entirely obsolete in one "generation"; faced with the expense of replacing all that investment, and the loss of first strike capability (you have to count on your enemies defenses working somewhat, and you can't pick which warheads make it), threw in the towel. We won the decades long Protracted Conflict/Cold War "without firing a shot", one of the greatest diplomatic successes in history. But it's an Idée fixe among the ignorant like Bray that it was an impossible failure, heck, he doesn't even consider people like me to be sane, "the foaming-at-the-mouth right wing".

Oh, yeah, the embedded systems contractors who do this sort of work have a much higher rate of success, and frequently not one you can fake in peacetime, either that fly-by-wire plane flies or crashes. The success of e.g. the F-16, F-117, F-18, B-2, F-22 speak for themselves. And the ABM Standard Missile 3 and it's supporting AEGIS system sure seem to be able to blow up things....

So if he's this stunningly ignorant or biased about a proven governmental success, how much is the rest of his judgement to be trusted?

Like this ludicrous analysis, either massively ignorant of the basic facts, or trying to protect the political and civil service types responsible for this mess. Seeing as how those masters of the universe in the HHS's CMMS decided to handle the integration job of coordinating 50+ contractors, including integration testing per the AP. And made it impossible for them to succeed: per the NYT "In the last 10 months alone, government documents show, officials modified hardware and software requirements for the exchange seven times." (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6583327), those changes continued through the last week before the launch, and full testing obviously was delayed until that last week.
Lol, yeah, we did that at first but our spending with amazon has leveled out. Its mostly random household items here and there now.
The only side effect this will have is that it will push more people into buying Prime. Great comments in the other Amazon thread about how they're really playing the long game [1].

Personally, I think Prime is a serious USP for Amazon that is often overlooked. It's pretty controversial among analysts (from what I understand) with some claiming it's causing explosive growth [2] yet with others unconvinced it's sustainable [3].

Definitely a company to watch over the next 10+ years though...

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6591509

[2] http://news.investors.com/technology/030513-646807-amzn-prim...

[3] http://www.fool.com/investing/general/2013/04/26/prime-is-ki...
Will Amazon jack up prices once it has destroyed all the competition?
As far as I can tell, these graphs only show the average age of people who are dying in a given year. If someone survives, they won't count as an improvement! So to inflate the graphs, we just have to kill off all the really old people :)
> They're still mainly huge, ugly, trash can size devices.

So are Apple computers: http://www.apple.com/mac-pro/

;)
Is it the "norm" that, when accepted into the standard library, packages "die" - or is it because this has happened to some packages, the popular perception is that the standard library is where packages go to die.

I'm just not understanding how it's OK that a standard acceptance of a Python package really means that it should go to the graveyard.
I love that definition. Enterprise Software means "Doing It Wrong". So many management folks just roll over and play dead when an IT guy says "This is an Enterprise class package" not realizing that the IT guy has just said "I don't have a clue what I am doing. Sadly, business schools try to teach managers how to make hard decisions, but in the IT realm, they seem to forget everything they have learned.

And it's not as if there are no examples of how to manage technology projects around. Look at an aircraft manufacturer or NASA and see how much they rely on incremental change followed by lots of testing.
That's live coverage, not the event itself. Last time I saw one of these they were shambling trying to get video from people's iphones inside the hall and a couple of their guys got caught and were asked to leave.
handy, ain't it? :)
Again i'm missing the problem.

If typecheck.static_type evaluates type on an object , typecheck.static_type(foo) returns type 'function'. And our function will return 0 , meaning type == int.

if typecheck.static_type does something else , more complex , we could always tell our tool that fn is dynamic.
According to TFA, Openmoko/FIC is already giving out PIDs from their VID space to any FOSS projects who ask.

IIRC they're not the first, either. And there've also been organizations freely allocating unique ethernet addresses out of their OUI space.

The amount of trouble they receive from the USBIF/IEEE/whoever seems to vary a lot from case to case, though. I expect it depends on which individual person the situation comes to the attention of. In some cases the USBIF or IEEE has actually revoked the VID/OUI assignment, leaving everyone who tried to play by the rules effectively squatting on an unassigned ID anyway.

Some ancient history: https://forum.sparkfun.com/viewtopic.php?t=931
there should be a small tax per order put out, even if cancelled and a small percentage-based tax on each trade. If that behavior has been determined to exacerbate price declines that externality should be captured in a tax and de-incentivized properly.