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Maybe in future we implement some other metrics, but as Palomides said, they can be gamed.

It is just a tip, some additional incentive to make new commits. Hopefully it will attract attention of new developers to the projects that are needed by people.
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Another idea: a book on why animals are people, and what the future might look like when animals have a charter of rights and freedoms.
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Now I'll have to recover my old GUI... Should not have listened to the wrong people, and instead kept it as an alternative... Thank you!!
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In my opinion I would always leave the DST on. Because people tend to go on average in my opinion to bed later than at 8 pm and on average wake up after the dark is long gone. In other words we sleep when there is light. And I think that the argument about spending more gas because people travel somewhere to play and do activities is all but a bad thing. I have a concrete example when people have a hard time exercising outside because it is dark before you come home from a job. So I vote that DST stays always ON.
Unfortunately, gameification trumps game design in modern mobile RPGs. (looking at you, Zenonia and Inotia)
That's really odd. I'm running on a atom 1.6ghz chromebook (running ubuntu/linux/firefox) and it works great.
I agree that the way to deal with increasing rents is to build new buildings. In fact, I think that is probably Bloomberg's greatest accomplishment. He made it much easier to develop new buildings which led to a boom in development.
My comment wasn't purely speculative. That would be unfair. It contains the thoughts that I had after reading your sample.

Here's one excerpt

Kôdô Sawaki says: if you need to sleep, sleep. Don’t plan your software when you are trying to sleep. Just sleep. If you code, code. Don’t daydream—code. If you are so tired that you cannot program, sleep. Even known multitaskers like Stephan Uhrenbacher have decided to work singlethreaded

Who's Sawaki? Who's Uhrenbacher? This is what I mean by missing context. Now that I think about it, some of the criticism (mine included) may be due to the fact that you picked the final chapter to represent a sample. You pretty much gave away the ending, and we have no clue how you got there.
What OS and browser are you using? Firefox and Chrome do much better with JS than the rest.
HackerNews? Is this like saying I sell things on eBay, because it's the new world economy? I would be more interested to hear about the tax situation than furniture delivery times.
We do know they are the ringleader as they own 58% of Rockstar.
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Things like this is what makes Bitcoin so amazing. A billion people giving eachother a few dimes or dollars.

Free flow of value.
"Your children's minds have been encrypted with RSA-2048. To retrieve the private key send $300 to the following Bitcoin address..."
Is it possible to write this book and have also inner stories for each souls? You can take inspiration from the french Book «Empire des anges».
The LWN comments on Mark's blog post make for a good contrast.

http://lwn.net/Articles/570827/
You will have a lot of fun taking one story and transposing it to a different time and place, as per 'Heart of Darkness' and 'Apocalypse Now'.

The source story does not have to be a work of fiction. You can use a true story, the benefit of this being that there are no plot holes. Scandals are a good place to start, particularly if the true story involving real, living people is too libel-likely to be given an 'honest' treatment. Scandals mired in waves of disinformation are pretty good too.

By taking the story out of the true context and setting it in another time and place you can possibly do a better job of telling the truth than you would be able to do otherwise.

For instance, you could take the Iran-Contra affair and set it in colonial times, as if it happened during the Opium Wars (for example). To get started you could start with the standard 'Wikipedia' telling of events, search and replace your characters so 'President Reagan' becomes '[King Whomever]', same with dates, same with locations. This could then serve as your rough draft. You could then quickly establish if the story actually worked. Then you could tighten up the story a bit, get someone else to read it and see if they thought it 'was true'. If so then you have got to a reasonable start point. Your full research could then begin, proper history stuff, filling in gaps and embroiderising as required. It is important that you learn more and more about your target time and place, you don't want those who know better to see your work as horribly naive.

Some of your embroiderisation can be stuff that you cannot say in your 'target' story, for instance I am sure there is an Israeli angle to the Iran-Contra story that, if told truthfully, would brand you anti-semitic, worse than Hitler etc. However, set in a different time and place you could write whatever was 'true' as 'fiction'.

There are other emergent properties of taking one story and time-warping it to somewhere else. The protagonists could get dehumanized, corrupted, revealed to be ruled by superstition and so on. Within the context of the true story and the morals of our times this might not be so evident. However, after the transposition, whatever it is that makes your characters (good and bad) may be a lot clearer to see. On the Iran-Contra example, you could take today's arms-trade and how that corrupts power and put it in context of the slave-trade of yesteryear. In the 'Opium Wars' example you could probably find a fit with indentured labour in India.

In summary, take a story you like, some history you know, mash it together and there you go, novel written.
You can get everything that has been decoupled from the OS from the Play Store. That was my entire point, until you tried to derail it. The point is that upgrading the OS won't matter, because you can just update the app.
Odd. Works great in Safari 6.
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This article makes no mention of Bizspark, free licenses for startups.

http://www.microsoft.com/bizspark/
Reminds me of the carbon fiber loom Toyota came up with for making the Lexus LFA.

http://youtu.be/AScfESzQzIQ
Fellow NaNoWrimo-er!

You should have started this exercise in October. Anyway, here's mine:

The current iteration of God and Satan (or whatever fictional supernatural character you choose) BOTH suddenly go AWOL and throw the entire system of heaven and hell into a quandary. Turns out they are both vacationing on Earth on some remote island, spending their days fishing and drinking beer.

Romantic twist: One is male, the other female and it turns out they have eloped and plan to spend the rest of their lives together.

Thriller twist: They get fascinated by the concept of zombies and start creating a zombie army to serve their needs. The existence of Earth is threatened.

Sci-Fi twist. Heaven and Hell are singularities at the two ends of the universe. Thanks to the disappearance of the two, the singularities are unstable and about to collapse into one unholy (pun unintended) mess.

S&S twist: God and Satan are names of Dragons who copulate and the eggs they lay create new universes. Them going AWOL is a traditional indicator of the end of one universe and the beginning of the next.

ASOIAF twist: Each religion gets to be God and Satan for a specific period of time. The current iterations (the ones that have gone AWOL) of God and Satan are killed and the blame is laid squarely on the representatives of one of the religions. Other contenders to the thrones of Heaven and Hell emerge.

Take your pick? :)
Ask HN: approaches to performance review for tech companies?
Are there any tips you can offer for a startup that will eventually have to look at the question of handling performance reviews?

Most of us spend much of our lives at work, out of necessity or voluntarily, and we all want to be at a place where we enjoy working. I get the sense that the approach of a business to performance review is critical to employee morale, to the tenor of their interactions with one another and to the long-term execution of the business.

In my own experience, I've witnessed forced/stacked ranking lead to serious, concrete difficulties for a company I worked for. Such difficulties might not have been avoidable under another scheme, and I don't want to overgeneralize from a single data point. But the experience leaves me wondering, have you worked at a successful tech company that had an approach to performance review that the people making things happen, at whatever level, were generally happy with or even enthusiastic about? One that keeps politics to a minimum and that encourages ownership and responsible risk-taking? Have you seen a business that successfully manages itself with an approach to performance review that is mostly or entirely implicit? Have you seen forced/stacked ranking carried out in a way that employees at all levels feel confident that reasonable outcomes are the norm?
I really like the spatial combat mechanics
This just stepped up to a whole new level.
I've been working on a similar concept off and on for a few years. To avoid all the security problems you're having, I've written a virtual machine that emulates a CPU and 64k of RAM. Instead of submitting code, you submit a 64k memory image of robot byte code.

Every turn of the game involves running a single cycle of the virtual CPU for every robot. Conceptually, the robots have radios and weapons that are controlled via memory-mapped IO in the virtual machine.

Things are slightly more complex than that because you don't want to give the first robot in the cycle an advantage (especially if they're firing lasers at each other), so you have to do each turn in multiple stages (run cycle, resolve real-world effects, update robot sensor state)

I'd LOVE to collaborate with a group of people to get something like this going because I think this would be a great way to introduce kids to programming at a machine level/electrical engineering. If anyone is interested, please send me an email. You can find my address in my profile.
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I think there's a book by Ashwin Sanghi called the "Rozabal Line" that is on these same ideas. Read it a while back, so I'm not sure.

All I can remember is that it was a 3/5, would probably read again.
I was hoping this was a game about data types.
I implemented Bresenham's algorithm in ARM assembly on the gameboy advance based on reading his 'zen of graphics programming'. Great writer, the anecdotes at the beginning of each chapter really hooked me in.
I use this game to practice touch typing more or less regularly and what I really miss is a way to monitor my progress.
This depresses me.
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But there’s C-x C-e for that.
Good write-up but the conclusion is completely wrong:

Costs Involved...This is the point where C# really sucks. Almost every tool, OS, IDEs and plugins, are paid.

Anyone can download Visual Studio 2013 Express edition. The Express edition has been free since Visual Studio 2005. Here's a download link:

http://www.microsoft.com/visualstudio/eng/downloads

Click on Visual Studio Express.

Of course, there are limitations but there are fantastic projects out there that have been made with all free Microsoft development tools. Visual Studio 2013 Express is really an amazing, free development environment. Combine it with SQL Server 2012 Express which is the free version of SQL Server that works on databases up to 10 GB and you can see you can do a lot with free Microsoft software.

See more info on Visual Studio Express here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Visual_Studio_Express
Nice game. I remember playing it some time ago, and quitting because of boredom once getting in the high (30+) levels.

I think it was one of the first "little" games using html5 instead of flash.

I see that they've introduced a new "expert" mode, which is indeed a lot harder. I've reached level 10 so far, but I'll give it a serious try sometime.

The biggest problem for me is the language. I type a lot of English, but not being a native make me hardly write any fancy words. So my finger get "stuck" in some words that have pattern that hardly appear in my native language.

On a side note, this remind me of "The Typing of the Dead" [1], which got recently released on steam (no linux support :( )[2], and the various online clones of it [3].

I feel that games like this one are a really great way of improving the speed/accurateness of typing, while also having a good share of fun.

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Typing_of_the_Dead

[2]http://store.steampowered.com/app/246580/

[3]http://www.kongregate.com/games/ascott/typing-of-the-living-...
http://www.addictinggames.com/funny-games/zombietypocalypse....
I'm still trying to reconcile the $300 price tag of yours with the price tag of a carbon filter (5 on amazon) HEPA filter (70 on amazon) and box fan (30 on amazon). Is there really 200 dollars worth of plastic, assembly, marketing and IP in the the whispure? Or is there one important element I'm not accounting for (perhaps fan power, fan noise, some kind of PID, or sensors to check filter health)
I'm guessing Snowden probably wouldn't use a hotmail account for anything sensitive.
"Unlike Visual Studio, MonoDevelop is free and open source."

Probably many are aware, but there is a free Express version of Visual Studio. I stopped paying for Visual Studio a couple releases ago and have been getting by quite nicely with the free version.
I've been using PwdHash[0] for a few years now. It is basically a system for generating a password using your input hashed and salted with the domain name of the site. This takes the security of the password itself out of the hands of the site and allows for some password reuse. There are also browser extensions available which make it easy to use.

0: https://www.pwdhash.com
BizSpark is great for technology startups - free software and $150 per month worth of Azure hosting for 3 years. That's enough to get a medium-sized VM or a ton of SQL Server databases or a whole host of other hosting resources.
better to try after Jan for summer internships, to be honest.
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True, but if the global salt is secret, it'll at least make it slightly harder for the attacker to figure out the password.

For example, if the password is "a" and an unique salt is available in the database, it'll be trivial to brute force. If the password function is something like this, however: sha256("longsalt" + password + salt) the attacker will first have to figure out longsalt which can be slow if it's long.

Or am I completely mistaken?
It's funny you should say that, as The Typing of The Dead: Overkill was released a couple of days ago on PC (see http://store.steampowered.com/app/246580/)
I like this change as well. My early days of git conditioned me to always add the remote and branch when pushing (ie git push origin master) as I did not like the implicit magic behind a bare "git push".
Sweden also have surprisingly many millionaires as well (69,800 millionaires) of a population of 9,5 million. The number have increased significantly the last years.

http://sverigesradio.se/sida/artikel.aspx?programid=2054&art...

As a Swede who have started businesses in Finland, South Korea and Lithuania, I do agree with the article that Sweden is the easiest country to start and run a company in. And the relative high taxes is nothing that bother me at all. I don't mind paying more if the service provided by it was justified.
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I have to concur with his experience - I often get GMaps results (on Android - which matters) that are very far away.

For that I think they should have a simple switch in the search bar - "How far away do you want to show results?". If I'm standing on a street looking for business X, I only care to see results in 1/5/10 mile radius.
> Apparently I had Win8RT confused with WinPhone. WIn8RT allows you to sideload freely. WinPhone requires you get a (free) developer's a account, but still has tight restrictions.

Windows RT does not allow you to sideload freely. Nor does WinRT, which is not an operating system, but a runtime environment.

You can sideload apps that you compile with a developer certificate, which is provided with a free copy of Visual Studio Express, but expires periodically. Corporations can sideload apps permanently if they have purchased sideloading licenses.

But there is no general ability to sideload, as a regular user who knows nothing about compilers.

Of course, this is just the RT environment. Windows 8 on x86 still has a desktop environment that is not locked down at all.
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Would to Bog I had karma points enough to downvote your dismissive comment. Really, couldn't you even read all the way through the article title? You know, where it says "... and I kind of suck"?

OP describes immersing himself in the details of a construction project, yielding to the temptations of total control. Micromanaging that project (atop the demands of family life) was a tremendous time-sink, and he lost focus on the Day Job - leading his company. He became detached, and his management style more autocratic and less consensus-driven.

He should have, he says, delegated or hired out much of the construction project work. Shepherding the company culture is a more important use of his time.

I found his introspective candor refreshing; not everyone is self-assured enough to admit a mistake.
Maybe the lack of a strong community is because of Microsoft trying to build it around itself, while always trying to push the new thing. WPF as an example.
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that's what I thought, so clearly Ember wasn't written from Scratch
Promoting their stock again?
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I'm a heavy Emacs user. I tried to plan ahead and remap Ctrl -> Caps Lock, but it didn't help. After all, I still used my pinky to hit Caps Lock. Thankfully, hearty remapping of defaults + Kinesis did help!
Thanks for sharing William. I recall you made some free theme too, can you share it as well.
This was referenced in a HN article that I read in the past day. I checked out reviews and it seems like it's a bit dated. Many chapters are done in assembler, for example. Any recommendations on great books that cover OpenGL and game programming?
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Paulo ,good article.

BTW, there's also lightswitch , which offers really simple development for database apps.

And there's .netmf , which lets you use modern ,memory managed language to develop some types of microcontroller systems.
The other use of timezones is so obvious that you don't even see it.

The national networks can advertise that a popular show comes on at 8 pm, and it will everywhere.
Don't think you're being unbiased here. Using C# inevitably means you will be shelling out for various tools along the way that you would never have paid for if you went with something like Python. Granted, if your business is making any money these costs are not going to have any real impact, but passing it off as 'no costs' is silly.
That sounds like the much more fully developed version of what I have that I'd like to get to someday. I'm down for that collaboration thing. Let's get a group started.

The radios you mentioned are something I'd like to have someday. I think what makes games like these cool is the fact that your code controls an army of robots. It's more fun than just having two robots duel it out.
Maybe remap it to Vim pedal? Someone came up with the idea to use a foot pedal for vim insert mode. It was a little whacky of an idea, but perhaps it'd be more useful as Emacs' meta key.

http://hackaday.com/2012/06/21/building-a-clutch-for-vim/
This article is from February 2012. Do you think DanBC is promoting a stock? He's never mentioned Molycorp on HN before so far as Google knows. What compelled you to register just to ask that?
It makes sense as long as a lot of people are unemployed. Which they are. If you can figure out a way to get those unemployed people doing more productive things, great! But if you can't, there's an argument that you should hold off on creating more unemployed people.
Fascinating how many religious ideas have been posted here.

REAL HUMAN:
A robot masquerades as a human being to avoid decommissioning.

Plot spoiler: there are no humans left, only robots pretending to be human. Even robots need a class system.
C# and Java are similar enough, I wonder if it would be good to show a few comparisons between syntax of those two languages, if most of his peers in fact knew Java well.
So i was one of the millions affected by Adobe's hack.

Should I be worried, when I canceled my credit card immediately and used a spam address to sign up?

The only details the hackers would have on me would be my name, canceled credit card number, email address (spam email address) and answers to secret questions. Is there anything else I should be concerned about?
Thanks for kind words!

I like your idea of putting developers' bitcoin address into commit message. I totally agree with you that direct tips are instant and reliable, they don't require trust to any third party.

However most developers probably don't even have a Bitcoin address, we hope to change that :)
> If you want to communicate clearly, then stop worrying about layout & typography

That's just wrong. Layout and typography are important elements to clear communication.
Ditto! I have always read man pages. Never read an Info one and I fail to see any need to do so.
Yes. I've been doing this for years.

It is amazing how much the air flow is cut down by the filter, though.
Agreed.

The problem was never Windows. Windows probably has better battery life than OSX with all other things being equal. Rarely is it given the chance to exercise that equality though. The problem is hardware, the OEMs and indeed even Microsoft themselves when they release broken firmware on their flagship Surface tablet. The Sony Vaio Pro is one of the very very few that has got it mostly all right. But I bet there is still room for tons of improvement even from that.
Lawyers just tell you whether a law applies to you, not whether it's ludicrous.
That you are surprised at being let go for your actions in the second job makes me
question your suitability at the first.

An Information Technology management role is a management role. As a former manager,
you shouldn't need to be reminded that you can't be compentent in that role without
knowing your organizations's rules and working with them.

Obviously I don't know your situation, but one question immediately comes to mind:
as an IT manager did you ever find yourself in a situation where you had to recommend
terminating someone because they committed a serious violation of the organization's rules
when they should have known better?

Any good manager will tell you it sucks for everyone to be in that situation but if the rules
are to mean anything they have to be enforced.

You paid a high price in this case, but if you learn the right lesson from it you'll
become a better manager in the future and at the very least you should have some good
real-world experience to relate in your future interviews.