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Re Chrome extension, I was thinking the same thing. There's a lot of rubbish posted here but also some gems - ESP from the older members I think, who have been sys admins or used Unix since the '90s or earlier. I keep a notebook of the most useful comments and bookmark others.

So a Chrome extension to filter again (eg tag comment as "technical", "ideology" and see what others do) could be v interesting.

Unfortunately the most thoughtful, most civil comment threads, seem to disappear the fastest off the home page - and attract the fewest participants. This could be a community issue or a chicken and egg situation...
Python script to parse incoming mail to JSON and POST it to a callback url
Very nice. What did you use to package it as an app?
200 rmb is about £20, or $32, or €24
What I don't understand is why Quora was/is loved by people like the Facebook team after how much they go through to make using their site difficult for end users. The fact that they require you to log in via a social account just to see answers is very similar to the crap experts exchange is by requiring a paid account.

There was a time when I thought it was a better Q&A site, but they continuously make it worse and worse with workarounds like this for the simple act of viewing a page entirely.
Finally, a website that lets me search twitters massive database of stupid pictures people take of themselves. How are you not a billionaire?
But the browser could simply do verified transaction signing using known code. It severely lowers the trust barrier.
I did think of that while posting, but edited it out of my comment as 1) too cheesy and 2) it doesn't really make the point, because it just sounds like your typical big-corp lame name.

It's a bit late for the HN thread now, but how about MFM protocol, but pronounced as "My Mail" just as RTFM is sometimes pronounced as "Read The Manual."
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This is a _community_, not a web app. Maybe the two words mean the same thing to people nowadays, but it didn't back in ~1999, when this community was formed--5 years before the website was formed. It's not the case that the website is the central hub for everything. As I said, players sometimes prefer coordinating over IRC or other mediums. And in some cases, there isn't one central place to play matches.

You can certainly mitigate the problem by encouraging people to use a web app to coordinate. Maybe there is an incentive structure that would help drive adoption. But whether or not people use the web app or not, they are still apart of the community and we have to serve them. I don't necessarily decide who is in and who is out.

Anyway, the point of my post wasn't to complain that there aren't workarounds. There are. I just think we as a society _shouldn't have to workaround DST_, and I wanted to add my lend my (largely insignificant) story to the cause.
how did you work this out, post the code?
I'm just amazed they still rank relatively high in google's search results for many of their long tail Q&A type pages. Google is usually pretty quick to penalize sites which use such shady tactics, and I've seen them slap sites for significantly less.

To say it's annoying is an understatement. I wish google would penalize all sites which throw up entry barriers, no matter how quick they are to bypass or mitigate.
A combination of aggressive use of hotel points (eg I paid for 7 nights in Bali just now, about 100-150/night for huge suites with my girlfriend, and am doing 14 days in Bangkok starting 5 nov for free on the points I earned (due to promos, etc).) and work reimbursement. I'm also sort of homeless in that I don't pay rent. (Gf has condo).

A lot is work reimbursed (looks like about 200 nights in 2014 if things go well), plus Starwood points from work and personal Amex.
The fact that real names are involved and affiliations or history are obvious make it even less likely to be shilling.
Downtown Bogota at night was one of the scariest places I've ever been.

On the flip-side, Bogota itself is awesome, made more awesome by Colombians, who are also double awesome!
An alternate history in which Bill Gates is killed in a car accident in Albuquerque back when Microsoft is just getting started. What would the computer industry have looked like?
You answered your own question:

> What I don't understand is why Quora was/is loved by people like the Facebook team ... The fact that they require you to log in __via a social account__

Quora "furthers" facebook by requiring a facebook account, so naturally the facebook team will "love" it. It furthers their (facebook's) business interests.
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The quality of Quora's ecosystem should not be judged by it's signup wall.
... It also lets you search for things like LAX, which might have been handy the other day.

A quick search for "thinspo" shows Twitter has a lot of work left to do if they want to stop people using twitter for pro-anorexia messaging.
Didn't run a game, but needed to play across time zones for reporting. Stored UTC, Local Time, and Minute Offset[1] for each transaction.

1) why yes, you should be able to do the math from the two dates, but it was more a check and debug thing
When I first heard of DST I couldn't believe that there are entire countries out there that follow this practice. It seems like it came straight out of a Terry Pratchett novel.
PDF, HTML(zipped) and the source code
http://orangetide.com/graphics_programming_black_book/
You might also want to consider using a sandbox/jail such as AppArmor, to prevent the Python (sub)process itself from accessing any resources should those methods fail.

I came across a project called CodeJail, which seems to help configure Python (or other scripting languages) nicely with AppArmor, to help execute untrusted code in a safe(r) manner:
https://github.com/edx/codejail
You are misunderstanding how it would work. People would still be awake when it's light out and asleep when it's dark.

Instead of everywhere starting their workday at 9am UTC like you're imagining, London would start their workday at 9am UTC, New York would start their workday at 4am UTC, Los Angeles would start their workday at 1am UTC.
So it's selfish to help my neighbor?

Give me a break -- that's some nonsense PC excuse to mask a decision purely driven by profit.

If choice of production locations is driven by concern for our brothers and sisters in the developing world, why aren't we making stuff in India? Or Liberia? Or Bolivia? And why are we generally operating in a model that shifts liability for things like pollution and labor problems to local partners?
Oddly enough, I opened this up expecting an article on Thimphu.
Almost every year, I reread the famous Goldberg paper, What Every Computer Scientist Should Know About Floating Point Arithmetic[1]. And with every time I'm more astonished at how the hell can anyone do anything nontrivial with floats and trust it.

[1] http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E19957-01/806-3568/ncg_goldberg.ht...
A lot of people don't want to live next to a revolving door of new arrivals. They enjoy knowing their neighbors, having friends for their kids nearby, and building lasting relationships with the community. They are willing to trade their own right to rent out their house as a short term hotel in exchange for a legally enforced expectation that their neighbors won't do this either. Yes, this does amount to a limit on personal, individual freedom - you can not purchase a house and turn it into a short term rental unit (ie., a hotel) at will anywhere you please.
Anyone else notice that that is the same guy who was behind Defense Distributed? I haven't heard anything about him since he was served with a notice that he was violating the ITAR laws.
https://userscripts.org/scripts/show/159399 does this automatically
Yeah. I mentioned carbonwallet, because it tracks the balance, while brainwallet only shows the address. I personally prefer the latter, but the former matches parent's description more closely.
Not really. Two places with the same timezone may have completely different day and night schedules. The northen hemisphere is flooded with sunlight during Northen summer, while the souther hemisphere gets very little sunlight during this time.
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Not just that, but if you have a slightly obvious password, your money will be gone in seconds.

That's why you never should use any quotations or popular phrases as a brainwallet password. There are people who watch those phrases.
I think they pay some internet celebrities to be there, so somehow it's the only way to get interesting answers to some recent historical things.

My real gripe, is why would google index with a quite high ranking something that's not public?
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I'm a youngish carefree man and I fucking hate DST. In the summer everybody switches to going to work one hour earlier and, unfortunately, that perfectly screws with my sleeping habits. In the winter, I naturally get up on time to arrive between 10 and 11, but in the summer, if I'm to get enough sleep, I'd have to be at work after 11! And since nobody else has trouble with it, I basically spend 6 months out of every year struggling to get enough sleep.
The problem is she's with her father. The system is skewed towards mothers and there is a high risk of the girl being separated from her dad (and potentially her school and extended support system) if he sought help.

IMO it's a disgrace that this situation exists, but if she has good grades and nobody has figured it out yet, her dad isn't some sort of nut and is taking care of her. They will get through it. She's better off on the bus that rolling the dice with some foster situation.
Have you actually been to a 3rd world country? If you had, your comment makes no sense at all...
The precedence is very real, and it's gone on for years. Companies will up and relocate when it makes fiscal sense.

Boeing, for example, was headquartered in Seattle for decades -- very established, entrenched locally, big production plants nearby. Chicago came along and offered serious tax breaks if they would relo HQ. This isn't down the road -- it's Seattle to Chicago, involving something like 1000 employees and their families. Boeing took the deal and gained millions in tax concessions.

At the time, Twitter did an evaluation of payroll & stock option taxes and determined that it would be worth a lot of money to everyone (it's not just the company, it's the people) if they have a shop outside SF geographic boundaries. Pick up and move down the street? Yeah, easy choice.
First though: Why would I need this. Then I saw something about Bejing, where I believe there's lots of smog(?).

Would this help against lots of smog?
Question: now many visitors from HN it takes to disable your system :)
No, time-zones alone can't give you an estimate of sleep-times (even ignoring individual sleep patterns for the moment).

Time-zones are related to the longitude of the location You also need to account for the latitude, and the time of the year, because the pattern of day and night depends on all three factors.
There's a claim that rare earth minerals cannot be reclaimed from recycled electronics. Is that true?
No passenger has ever died on the Japanese Shinkansen, but a train was derailed during an earthquake. The safety of high-speed trains, both in Japan and elsewhere, also relies on safety during a derailment by keeping the train rigid and having steel cars. In contrast, it seems to me that a breach of the integrity of the hyperloop tube would probably be fatal. Also, the higher speed of a hyperloop makes automatic stopping take longer.

In all, the hyperloop as it's currently being presented is much more dangerous than high-speed rail during an earthquake, and this is a legitimate concern.
They've started to allow signups via email, the link is just really really small.
It's true that diseases are often caused by those things, but in this particular case malaria is caused by the /Plasmodium/ organism and transmitted via infected mosquitoes.

If you're imagining a situation in which one individual in an outlying community gets sick with mysterious symptoms that turn out to be malaria, you have simply failed to grasp the magnitude of the problem.
Yes, HEPA filters are effective against particulate air pollution in Beijing.
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Disingenuous meaning not truthful, which it was not.
What planning tool did you use for writing business plan for your startup?
Alternatively, what document templates would you recommend, if any?
It's not that the programmers who wrote those libraries knew better - it's that they know better now!

Most programmers have a simplistic view of time, and start out writing some library that assumes simple arithmetic can calculate any duration, then they find their library is wrong in many cases, and problems are gradually fixed as they research and learn more about time. A robust time library that gets everything right is not going to be hacked together over a weekend.

Perhaps the parent comment was too strong as it sounded a bit like "Don't try to write a time library you idiot." Writing a time library is fine, if that is your aim. I think the suggestion is rather, don't bother writing a time library that is intended to be tacked onto your main project, as you'll either get it wrong, or waste time you could be working on your actual problem, when others have already solved the time problem.
Can't you just do this with a normal box fan and a hepa air filter you buy for 7usd at the market?
> Your outrage of having to explain this, is misplaced. This is not an obvious fact, nor is it backed by any evidence.

I'm not outraged at all, just surprised. I don't have enough time to explain something like that on HN (especially to someone who may just be trolling or acting in bad faith, not saying you are but you could be) and I don't feel the need to because the evidence that the internet has a positive effect on society and the economy are so overwhelming and just a few google searches away anyway. That's like asking why science or education are a good thing for the economy. Have a nice day :)
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It's quite easy, in the days, it was Apple vs the rest, and Apple got popular (Mac vs PC, ...)

Now, its Google versus the rest, we'll see how this goes :)
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The post left out the some important parts of the Kalman Filter, where you adjust your certainty in how well you're able to predict where the target will go and how accurate your sensors are in response to how they perform over time. So even if you're Gaussians are 10 klicks apart the variance for this prediction still shrinks, but your future Gaussians would be much wider. I think what was described in the post was more an alpha-beta filter.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kalman_filter

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alpha_beta_filter
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Hmmm. I'd have to see this run through an earthquake model. It seems to me that having them stacked/connected vertically would cause problems during an earthquake.

Think about those coffee stirrer straws that look like a figure 8 (it's a single straw pinched in the middle): if you hold one between your fingers the range of movement left/right is easy but an up/down movement is quite difficult (and if you push hard enough the straw buckles).

There's usually significant vertical and horizontal displacement during an earthquake. My thinking is that Elon's original design would fare better.
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Yet another expertsexchange.com just with some added hype.
Ah, interesting. Do you know of any good examples showing prefetching for linked lists?
Well if that's your thinking maybe you ought to start advocating/doing something about hookworm: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hookworm
"In susceptible children hookworms cause intellectual, cognitive and growth retardation,"
From the FAQ:

You can! We have links on our Particle Counting blog. We're more committed to spreading the knowledge that HEPA filters are a cheap way to effectively combat air pollution than we are to making money, so we'd never discourage anyone from buying the same parts elsewhere.

We just try to make the parts easier to get for people who don't want to scour Taobao for the cheapest filters. People have also emailed us saying that some stores stop carrying fans in the winter and that some HEPA manufacturers don’t sell in small orders. We buy in bulk so we can offer a low, flat rate (200RMB) that includes shipping anywhere in Mainland China. By buying with us, you also know that you’re getting HEPAs that we tested personally for effectiveness.
For people who have used both flask and rails. Any pros and cons pointers that I could read?
Text only e-mail is more productive for everyone, in exactly the same way that text only authoring applications are more productive. When you are writing something, fiddling around with the layout is just a distraction. Many people might prefer it, but lots of people also like to play Patience on their workstation rather that getting on with what they are supposed to be doing.
Can I merge two HN accounts?
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One large set of projects is world-wide Ham Radio contests. This gets rid of the time zone problem and the Daylight Time Savings problem, or the British Double Summer War Time problem. And it isn't just the contests--pretty much all of radio timekeeping is done in UTC (formerly called GMT), affectionately known as Zulu, with a 'Z'.

I participated in one expedition to Vanuatu with five other guys from our radio club (the Prairie Dx Group) in which we flew from Chicago. 28 hours of travel to get there. Lost one particular Thursday in the process. We were keeping a web site updated with our results in real time, and had to keep in touch with the webmaster. The event was run on Z time, and the daylight obviously was on local time. So we were tracking three different time zones in an event that ran around the clock, and pretty much had no intuitive sense of what time it was.

But in worldwide radio communication, it is often important to know what the sunrise and sunset times are in the places you hope to communicate with. Many of my friends who are very good at this know this for important locations around the globe for various seasons.

One thing you can do to get used to UTC is to set your wrist watch or the office clock to UTC. You will shortly adjust, or miss dinner.

And as a life-long ham, when I write times, I use four digits: "I am on the 1800 train coming home." Some folks say "wtf", and others you can catch them counting on their fingers.
...at distracting and confusing readers.

If your goal is to distract and confuse people, by getting them to click on your ads and buy your products, then use HTML e-mail. If you want to communicate clearly, then stop worrying about layout & typography and concentrate on the words you are writing.
Remember the bad old days of IBM big iron base sixteen floating-point, which could gratuitously cost you up to three significant bits? Thank goodness those are gone.
They don't have to "up and move" all at once; they could easily have just capped their SF headcount and expanded offices in other cities. Then the CEO starts spending more and more time in one of those "remote" offices, then they declare that desk to be their primary location, and before you know it, the company's de facto HQ is somewhere else.
Mutations in the resource are addressed by changes in the media type. You're talking about it as if it was rocket science, while everything is very well addressed.
No thanks. Microsoft is a giant, anti-competitive patent troll and will not be getting my dollars.
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I just went to AOL keyword OPENBSD. Or it's not 1998 anymore and it's just common sense to type domain.org instead of www.domain.org.

Why would anyone even have them be two separate machines with the same content?
Exactly.

The first step in this is speaking up and saying, "Hey, this is really obviously wrong".

Part of the reason that the law doesn't have to get every incentive and disincentive right is because there are other mechanisms available.

I'd like to say that I was going to avoid doing business with these parties, but I already wasn't doing business with these parties, at least not to the best of my knoweldge.
(Author here) The apps are just really thin native WebView/UIWebView layers, included in the source. No frameworks were used.
Are you banned from Adsense just because of the porn pics/videos?
Or have you been banned for other reasons (e.g. not having your own content, making duplicate content from twitter, copyright issues, dmca, gambling, site quality or other) ?
The above comment looks flagged, But I seriously don't know why.
I am actually looking for a solution where the filtering is done through water rather then a HEPA filter, which needs replacing quite a lot in a environment as bad as Bejing.
That said, you don't need GPS to get a UTC clock. EVE Online for example determines the clock drift on connection to the servers by bouncing packets around.
If the only thing that is causing you grief is the check-in check-out process, it is worth noting that some owners do try to streamline this process as much as possible. I for one try to keep contact with the person down to a minimum. Because you guys are right, I don't want to talk to anyone after 12 hours of travel.
Love the navigation ! Really easy and fast, and my eyes are only focused on this area. Very cool. Two comments :
- Why do the results open in a new tab ? Is there something I'm not understanding definitely rename "related" with something like "sub-section" or "add filter". Great job !
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This wouldn't solve much of the communicating across timezones problem - although you may no longer have to look up the canonical time, you instead have to look up the solar time or local time convention (are they sleeping? are they at work?)

So, it's better to keep the second problem ('what time is morning?') more accessible, since you need that in both cases.
Hitpoints, of which each bot starts with 50. An attack yields 15 to 20 hp damage.
If you live in Beijing, you need an air filter. We were about to buy an expensive one, but this is quite nice; we might just go with it.
Interesting, I always thought the name alluding to the typical wingtip mount of these missiles.
> (1) How many online reviews are fake? How many are written out of spite? There is a level of trust you have to give someone: either an online reviewer or a person.

That is why I quantify pretty explicitly a million - I'd never consider any sampling below, say, a hundred reviews, and even then you have to accept the inherent inertial bias that anyone content with their experience won't review it, and disproportionately people will complain about a negative one than praise a great stay. You need enough aggregate results to smother false reviews or non-systemic bias.

> (3) Having a human to work with is usually better service than not. But it really depends on the situation.

It is really situational, but one critical aspect of the information age is a litmus test on every human service position on whether or not actually having gassy meat on one end of the transaction is really worth the comparatively huge costs of keeping said meat bag alive and happy. And it is a personal test - which is why most industries that have been displaced by the Internet still exist to serve the population that values that interaction.