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Because getting a "technical detail" wrong in this day and age is not a minor thing. An average person would see the title of the website we're on and conclude that illegal activity happens here, thanks in part to the media and their misuse of "technical details".

If you're in the media, don't talk about things you don't understand!
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This is awesome! However, 95% of my guests would be soo confused and we probably would receive a lot of phone calls/emails asking helpdesk questions.

"How does this work"
"So we tried the website and we wanted to let you know we will be coming..."
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Just what I've always wanted :) :) :) :)
In other words : An Apple fanboy is being a total compainypants about Android because he doesn't want to accept that it's actually a pretty good phone.
As an everyday carrier of both an iOS and Android device, it's rather refreshing when people point out flaws and points of improvements on both platforms. I certainly hope Google fixes these problems ASAP.
I've had so many dates and they all fall through or fade after the third. Found out most women expect guys to drive them everywhere and pay for their dates, about 50% were offended I didn't pay for all their shit. I've had bad dating experiences.
What is also useful are the various web framework's support for debugging in realtime. If you haven't worked on a web application that lets you just type code in when it throws a 500 I highly recommend it.

Also what I like to do with ipdb is set a debug point and just write new functionality in real time. Most good programmers probably do this in their heads but having a computer do it for you is the next best thing. You catch bugs almost immediately (hey this variable isn't supposed to be empty!). It feels pretty cool to send a request to a web app and just pound out the code to make it respond correctly before the browser gives up on the HTTP connection.
It's built into the definition of the rating. A 200 point difference in rating always means that there's a 75% expected chance of the higher ELO winning. In less fluid arenas, the actual ratings can diverge from ideal ratings but there's enough matchups in chess that this isn't a huge concern.
Farm it out to many people in return for some tiny (but not monetary) reward.

OKCupid used to have a feature for "choose my best image". Users submit two images, then rate other people's images. One of your images is presented alongside one other image from some other user, and someone else has to pick which one they like most. OKC then used their stats to give some analysis to it.

It was sort of great, except there were usually too few people to get any kind of sensible results.

It's easy to see that this could be a useful approach.
Is this feature universally available over all the devices if they have recent OS?
Man... I swear you can undo in nearly any text box on Android (unless it's a custom class used by the third party dev)... You long press on the text box and click undo on the popup.

Am I remember wrong? It's been 12 months since I last used my Xperia, so I probably am.
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But all the geek will love it :). Its a real gem, so you can install it. Its the best way to invite other hacker friends. I hope there is no hackathon on wedding. :)
People easily forget what's precious while they're having it. And then, realize after they lost it.
That's cute. You need one thing -- someone to enforce that for you.

A court they would listen to, an army, your buddy Louie with a baseball bat, ready to break their CEO's knees.

Societe Generale is in a better standing than you here. Some courts in some countries (France) using their enforcement agencies will most likely do their bidding for them.

In other words I can fine everyone millions of dollars. Look I fined you and everyone here $1B. Guess what chance I have of collecting that?

Disregard other things, deep down that is what it boils down to.
Would you mind to elaborate on what you mean by playing tactical vs. strategical? (part of my yearly "now I'll get started with Chess again")
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I agree. I didn't even click on the main link because I saw a mention of this popup with the silly wording used for the button to close it. I would definitely not proceed after that.
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Educational websites are a way to ease the pain of brick-and-mortar schools. There are thousands of free or inexpensive online teaching aids that circumvent the need for major funding. Education websites like Artifacts Teach engage students in authentic inquiry and offer sustained attention, therefore improving long-term learning and positively impacting testing. An unlimited number of students can be served from a single educational website making overcrowding a non-issue.
Oh crazy. But I'm not surprised. After ranting to myself and colleagues for a few days after stumbling over a few bugs and trying to fix them... (By the way: Fixing bugs there is almost impossible without going insane - Gobject, Dbus, [put 10 other slightly broken technologies in here], gvfs - layers of abstractions and strange C code with subtle multithreading issues and almost no documentation)

...and after stumbling over a lot of Bugs in Unity or the underlying GNOME infrastructure that are more than 2 years open or just reappear every other Ubuntu release I've switched to KDE (Kubuntu).

I've only learned C++ and Java in university so it's probably partly my fault but I've found the whole GNOME / Unity Desktop ecosystem to be pretty hard to understand and impossible to debug. Then I've found this here: http://www.jwz.org/doc/cadt.html had a good laugh and stopped caring about it. Sorry to all the people that working hard to improve Desktop Linux but I'm sick of it.

While KDE is also not perfect I'm a happy user now.
Are we really at a point where we get deeply offended at some sort of UI change when we visit a page? Inspector it, remove it, read the article, and move the fuck on.
For what is similar to the linux kernel:
http://inspectorgit.com/torvalds+linux

Gets Git itself as well memcached!
Android and iOS are very different OSes. iOS I feel is more out of the box everything you need but you must use our stuff (itunes, imessage...etc). Stock Android is more here is a barebone kit and we got all these third party stuff. Pick and choose what you like.

The Nexus 5 is for people who don't want all this complications. Its a very barebone phone designed for devs. But if you get an Android with a third part skin like the HTC One, most of these issues are solved (off the top of my head I know it has #2 and #3).
Yes they call it a sea, because it is not an ocean, I don't understand why you call me a pendant. More importantly though, you might not be following the news in Europe, but many immigrants try to cross the Mediterranean in order to get into Europe, and many unfortunately die. So it is not that it keeps anyone away.
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None of the things you cited really have anything to do with freedom? You listed education, justice, wealth, and welfare. All the literacy in the world won't help you if you're not allowed to talk about the government--but maybe the CAF will make you less inclined to complain.
I disagree. Any time someone switches platforms, they will undoubtedly be more prone to identify quirks and missing features in the new platform than everyday users.

If companies (be it Apple or Google) want users to switch to their platform from their competitors, it's critical for them to maintain feature-parity and push the boundaries on their strengths. Case in point: Apple adding notifications and copy&paste to the iPhone. Both were gripes from non-iPhone users. But at some point, Apple had to bite the bullet to follow suit. Whether their implementation was a success isn't the point, but rather keeping up with the competition in feature parity.
It is mathemtatically proven that the Elo Rating system converges to the Bradley Terry interval rating system over time.

The difference between Elo and Bradley-Terry is that Bradley-Terry assumes to have "all" the data. So Bradley Terry is used in Psychology studies for that reason. (Eventually, you stop taking data).

Elo on the other hand, is mathematically equivalent to Bradley-Terry except with infinite data. Elo allows you to incrementally "add data" to an existing Bradley-Terry-esque model and make it more accurate.

BTW: Elo has been superceeded by superior models today, but all (good) ranking models are "interval properties" that have been derived from the Bradley Terry model from Psychology research.

See TrueSkill (which is based on Gaussian Curves, so they aren't technically Bradley-Terry but instead the Thurstone scale), Glicko, and Glicko2.
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Given that environment, what do you do when you're trying to concentrate on a particularly challenging issue and you need to tune out the chatter and what others are doing?
I'm amazed at how well this works, in a WebView container no less, on my iPhone! Cool concept, too :)
I've had an iPhone for two years, and never even heard about undo before. I almost couldn't believe it when I tried shaking, and it actually worked. Talk about hidden features...

But typing is so much slower with an on-screen keyboard anyways, and I so rarely select text for anything but copy/paste, it has never once happened that I wished there was an undo.
I thought you had made a fantastic pun there for a second... Then realized what you really said.

"It's a real gem."
Mental exhaustion or "burnout" is a very real thing. Just like many professional athletes stop trying or substitute out when their team has no hope of winning, resigning the game allows you to preserve your mental energy for your next game.
> $400k is what one-trick ponies like doctors and lawyers

...and the President of the United States [1]...

> and traditional industry local small business owners earn.

[1] http://www.ipl.org/div/farq/pensionFARQ.html
The competition between Android and iOS will probably go down as one of the great technical "great leaps forward" in history. While I often wish they could all just get along, the fact that two incredibly capable companies (and heck, Microsoft as well now) are fighting it out hammer and tongs in a pretty flat playing field is ridiculously awesome. Imagine if the same level of competition had existed between Apple and Microsoft between 1985 and 2000.

Consider that we're getting smaller, faster, lower powered, and often cheaper devices with more features every year. We got this level of progress in PC hardware for a while (1990-2003 or so) but software progressed far more slowly. Right now, literally everything is up for grabs, and everyone is benefiting.
if they knew, they will tell you. don't be too critical of them.
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The complaint about backups is inaccurate. Preferences like sound or vibration on type and (infamously) wifi are backed up automatically and restored on boot. Many apps choose to save user preferences on their own servers in lieu of using the Shared Preference manager, but many others do not - those preferences will also be restored.
France could just be following in the footsteps of the O'Dwyer case.
Great thing! Awesome.

Congratulations for the wedding!
Michael Feathers defines "legacy" as "something that doesn't have satisfactory tests". Dan North adds "does something useful".

Without the tests, refactoring is dangerous. This means that the systems are encouraged to remain static while the world around them changes. Systems that do the job, but for the wrong reasons, are legacy.

That last one was me. :)
Yes, for non-CPU-intensive applications.
Does anybody know what license this is released under? For example, can one run it under an emulator? On something more powerful than a Pi? Using an ARM-to-my-CPU jitter (does that work at all, or does Mathematica have its own JIT inboard?)

If one managed to hack the binaries and include them in an iOS app, would Wolfram permit that?
what is the "we are working to get these available for you" link under most of the packs?
Looks nice- Everyone just remember that if you don't understand the source code or download it in a way that allows a "man in the middle" attack, there's nothing to stop this kind of program (or an MITM-altered version of it) from emptying out every bitcoin wallet you have installed on your computer.

(I for one will install this program though, on my non-wallet pc)
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Backup is big one and as a long-term Android user I find it unforgivable that this isn't implemented in a system-wide way.

Text undo - now you mention it, that would be nice to have. I can't say I've ever cursed it's absence though.

He's just wrong on the camera focus. Just tried it.

I don't use disk encryption although what he says seems to make sense. I wouldn't call it a deal-breaker though.

Finally - regarding hardware compatibility? - sounds like a gap in the market for an enterprising chap!
Injecting hazardous unknown chemicals (trade secrets) into the ground at high pressure, what could go wrong?
Sounds similar to guys who won ClojueCup: http://clojurecup.com/app.html?app=codenotes
I'm unaware of a phone camera that doesn't have some kind of focus capability, and the tap-to-focus feature is part of the AOSP camera in, at least, anything north of 4.0, so...
I love ncurses. I love it so much, that on my Ubuntu laptop, on startup I swap over to tty1 and fire up WordGrinder to work on my novel, or Tmux + TextAdept to do some web dev. It's soothing :)
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Yeah, you're right, that's often the case, especially when you have cofounders and early employees that you don't want to dilute during the first funding round.

However, I just wanted to keep the example simple, I thought it was easier to talk about creating shares than deal with the "who owns the unissued shares" notion.

But yeah, that's a good clarification.
Even better, he is publicizing it.
How would one install in OSX? Do you need nmp first?
It's also the name of the internal Microsoft tool that collects crash dumps. Much less public of a name though.
First, presumably you mean Qf4, not Qe4 - there was no Qe4 in the game - and h4, not hh4. Second, you're the only chess-playing entity (human or computer) I've come across who thinks after Qf4 anyone is clearly lost (and I think it's almost as debatable that after h4 the position was winning). Third, at this level especially it's absurd to continue playing a rook down with no compensation.
Definitely recommend it. Super readable (more so than Anonymous Pro), pleasing to the eye, and they took real care with the symbols that resemble each other (0O, 1l, etc). Also it has a bunch of different thickness levels, so for example with Sublime Text which tends to render letters a little thick, I can set it to the "Light" setting, while in iTerm I use "Regular".
Also b/c anytime you visit Google.com on any non-Chrome browser, it tells you to install Chrome for faster browsing. Google.com is so sparse that Chrome ad sticking out on the side is quite effective.
> along comes you, acting like you have some God-given right to inspect its internals

Well,it's mathematics software, so it's actually really not unreasonable. Fortunately, the rest of mathematics has moved past the seventeenth-century style of "Here's my result, the proof is secret". If Mathematica is intended to be suitable for mathematical research, then its source must be open so that the results are auditable.

Other mathematics software like Sage doesn't have this problem, and is already available for the Raspberry Pi for free, obviating the need to use Mathematica.
Debuggers are cool and often necessary, but I disagree with this often-expressed sentiment that print-debugging is a primitive hack for people who don't know any better.

Debugging is determining the point at which the program's expected behavior diverges from its actual behavior. You often don't know where where/when this is happening. Print-debugging can give you a transcript of the program's execution, which you can look at to hone in on the moment where things go wrong. Stepping through a program's execution line-by-line and checking your assumptions can be a lot slower in some cases. And most debuggers can't go backwards, so if you miss the critical moment you have to start all over again.

These are two tools in the toolbox; using print debugging does not mean you are not "a boss."
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Just to play devil's advocate, your productivity might have gone up but what about the people that you've been directing your questions to? They might have been disturbed and thus, their productivity might have gone down. I get asked a lot of questions which always breaks my train of thought.

I'm not advocating for an open office or a closed office but I do appreciate something balanced. People around me are always collaborating and discussing a great number of things which really makes me lose my focus. I usually come in early when it's really quiet and no one's in yet to get things done. After that, headphones on but even then, I miss the sound of silence rather than drowning out noise with more noise.
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Should be hell of a coincidence. Joined HackerNews today, and found a friend posting his wedding invitation on it.

Great concept.. :)
Deep. Unfortunately I have no idea what you're talking about. Care to elaborate?
Never mind the inherent dangers of open lines-of-sight: http://www.theonion.com/articles/open-floor-plan-increases-o...
I would like to think they'd annihilate each other like antimatter and antimatter. Microsoft tried to smother OSS on many occasions, both directly, through FUD, and by proxy (SCO). Embrace extend extinguish. Steamrolling Windows-only solutions over standards. They just killed patent reform efforts.

It just seems like they embody the opposite of Mozilla organization's ideals.
As far as I'm concerned, a cube farm is an open office. Both provide the same amount of quiet: none.

I think open offices are a terrible idea with huge productivity hits that are not made up in any way by the small advantages they provide, but they aren't going away any time soon.

This was a good article, but again, it won't have any effect. The bottom line means we all have to suffer in noisy, distracting environments whether it's helpful or harmful.
Each time I see web-based terminal with *nix-looking shell prompt inside it ends up like this:

...
Successfully installed wedding-0.0.1
7 gems installed
root@wedding ~$ which wedding
which is not a valid command
root@wedding ~$ whoami
whoami is not a valid command
root@wedding ~$ id -a
id is not a valid command
root@wedding ~$ uname -a
uname is not a valid command
root@wedding ~$ ls -la
-bash: cd: -la: No such file or directory
root@wedding ~$ logout
logout is not a valid command

(closes tab)
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We've already run the experiment and seen what happens when people try to collaborate with the Gnu Emacs team (jwz, lemacs, xemacs).
Are you sure that they don't enforce SSL all over?
That's the whole point of OAuth2 getting rid of signed request :(
I have to admit, my jaw dropped when I found out I couldn't undo a text edit on my Nexus 7. This was last year; I assumed it had to be something that would make it into 4.3 (no) or 4.4 (still no).

iOS's shake-to-undo still feels a bit gimmicky to me (I prefer the keyboard undo button on iPads), but it's something that should have come immediately after clipboard support on Android.
And how do you force it to change its policy simply by not buying its products? Why would a company, particularly a worldwide conglomerate, care whether you buy their products or not?

Hint: You've already said it.
Nexus 5 here. I can't see a way to do it.
I'll get about 3 people MAX to my wedding with this... AWESOME!
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This isn't about Google playing the good guy. Their core business heavily relies on big, personalized data. By giving all that money to Mozilla, they claim the default search engine and probably some other man-in-the-middle services too (like Google error pages or Google anti-malware protection). I haven't used Firefox for a while, but I guess that also includes auto completion in the navigation bar like Chromium.

It is only logical for them to invest in spots they can gain this data from.
Not my thing, but good for them.
No, this is actually valid criticism. People are generally adverse to learning new software programs, when the one they've been using for years has served them so well. With this in mind, we'll be exposing thousands of students to closed source software when the open source alternatives are more than adequate for teaching. By the time students need features in Mathematica that are not present in the open source alternatives, they will have the skills to contribute those features back as pull requests.

This is a Trojan horse. It undermines the open source alternatives. The Pi foundation here is betraying its open source roots.
Do you think Patrick Henry said "Give me liberty, or give me death" - do you think John Hancock signed his name so big to attract the personal attention of King George III - do you think the American troops starving to death at Valley Forge in the winter of 1778 went up against the best military in the world - because they thought they would be better off without freedom?
I hereby fine Société Générale for overuse of acute accents.
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I agree with reading Jeremy Silman. My first chess book was http://www.amazon.com/Complete-Chess-Player-Fred-Reinfeld/dp.... I started beating my dad after reading it! It covers some basic positional ideas (control of the center, pawn structure) and basic tactical ideas (pins, discovered check). With those two things, you can go a long ways.

Once you get a good handle on that, analyzing your own games and reviewing GM games starts to become helpful.
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Land is often leased from average citizens or land holding companies. Rights to minerals are leased from whomever owns them. At least that's how it works in Arkansas.
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>my (highly-skilled) French friends do not plan to return in the foreseeable future

Selection bias alert! You're more likely to meet people who swore to never return than those don't mind returning.
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It is pedantic because their are no sea where he lives, so making the distinction is (from his point of view) somewhat useless
From TFA:

I received one more express letter from France, in English, telling me subsequent letters would be in French (...)