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Thanks, and I think you could combine the two in a softball opener.

For example, you could say -- "Developing Augmented Reality apps fascinates me, and Example.com seems to be a leader. Do you really get to do leading-edge work in Augmented Reality there?"
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government id/picture id checking against pgp keyserver, to make sure you are who say you are. So you have to be physically present at the party with your key and id. that's how the trust network is built.
Probably each TCP connection only goes over one IP address, so the remote end doesn't get confused. All the data coming back on that connection will have to come in on the same path the connection started on.
They're going to be replaced by robots either way. That doesn't mean they shouldn't be treated decently in the meantime.
Gendered pronouns in software: a quick primer
Good idea!

You got the best of both worlds: Even though you didn't know anyone, you were able to contact someone who you were already "connected" to.
>Advances in technology will not permit the maintenance of the status quo, as far as privacy is concerned. The status quo is unstable. If we do nothing, new technologies will give the government new automatic surveillance capabilities that Stalin could never have dreamed of. The only way to hold the line on privacy in the information age is strong cryptography
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Typical HN negativity: someone posts a cool project and the top comment is bitching about the blog design.
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I wish there were GPRS-only plans. They're everything I need for Threema/WhatsApp/FB Messenger/whatever - which saves my friends $$$ on texts.

My advice as an "iPhone under-user" (often without data plan):

Forevermap is an OSM-based offline map app, and is good enough in many countries. Definitely good enough to find your way home.

Never install Facebook with the excuse of messaging. The Facebook Messenger app is much more focused.

There's an iOS app that has a relatively recent dump of StackOverflow if you want to code on the train. I'm not sure if I want to recommend it as the UI is really sketchy, but it has helped me.
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> That's true. But I suspect that better sanitation and nutrition played a large part as well.

Not in every case. Polio, for example, became a more serious problem because of sanitation. http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/rxforsurvival/series/diseases/polio....
The main purpose of monitoring communicatins is to monitor public sentiment and guide it or sway it. It is not for security purposes, being able to manipulate the populace is the primary goal.

It is basically to subvert the effective functioning of the democratic system in a subtle but perfectly legal manner, by manipulating the information fed to the public and actively shaping the public mood in the desired manner

PS. A lot of it happens on HN and Reddit.
The entire UI (all the code in the stack from Mer up) is proprietary. Sailfish is less open than Android. Atleast AOSP is a fully functional OS you can run on your phone (though dramatically less functional than when you include the Google binaries).
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Totally true. That's just not what most people have in mind when you say "the bank was robbed".
> Never underestimate the power of greed.

This also applies to people filing (potentially) frivolous lawsuits against organizations they see as having deep pockets.
The other thing to note - time to completion often varies from the original estimate, when you finally get to figure out what you are actually building. But it doesn't vary equally, in terms of over-spend and under-spend.

You might end up taking twice as long. You might end up taking half the time estimated. Even with a perfectly honest estimate (which is rare) both scenarios are equally likely. So the overall distribution skews towards late delivery - you are as likely to require 2 more days, as you are to save 1.
Your assumptions ("not many bike lanes", "self-entitled") seem to be somewhat localized, but your anger and willingness to jump to incorrect conclusions about who I am or how I ride isn't.

I'm pretty sure I don't live near where you live. Cars don't drive too fast. There are bike lanes. When I see a stop sign, I stop. I try not to piss off drivers.

You seem to be offering me a false choice: "stop talking about risk" or "stop riding your bike".
If that were the case, the download would be no faster than using a single connection. I guess it would help if you download multiple things, but that is a different claim than what is claimed in the title.
This isn't really a missing optimization, but an understandable mistranslation of the C code – the / operator with integer operands doesn't mean the same thing in Julia as it does in C. In C it means div whereas in Julia it does floating point division.
You can use multiple connections for a single download (e.g. HTTP range requests).
Yes, I didn't mention it, but I have seen this before as well (other projects aimed at secure communications who "launch" but "delay" the release of the source code); I find this "delayed/promised open source" tactic equally perplexing. If they later release the source code, but users are already blindly routing their sensitive information through the system (because they launched first, before releasing the code), then it's too late for those users if it is later found the software is not trustworthy.
Yes, because pieces of paper given out by men with guns are the font of all truth.

ADD: Fuck this statist cesspool.
Based on the examples on the page it doesn't look like they are doing that. They are talking about the "user" which depending on context might be the programmer using the API or the end user using the application.

But I think this gets to the root of the problem. Text with generic pronouns can get clumsy , especially so if the grammar is less than perfect.

"He" or "She" removes any ambiguity that you are referring to a singular person. Whereas "they" could mean a single person, a group of people or some inanimate object. So a gendered pronoun can make your writing clearer but of course forces you into a specific gender.

Historically "He" was often used as a pronoun which could be considered either gendered or gender neutral dependent upon context.
How is this a prediction of Bitcoin?
The 4th Amendment implies that conversations about anything including the bits to Game of Thrones should be free from snooping, if only when those conversations are encrypted. Law enforcement can get a warrant when they have sufficient evidence of illegal activity.
This is commonly called an "informational interview".

I don't get how applying for a job makes you seem needy, though. If there's actually a job opening and you are qualified for it, then why not apply? I think of informational interviews as being a way to network into jobs that don't exist (or before they are posted)
DRM and encryption aren't the same thing. I don't think anyone would complain that Game of Thrones is stored in an encrypted format on it's servers, or transmitted using encryption to broadcasting stations. Conversely, I doubt you would want your social security number or HIV status stored under DRM - you might lose access to that information in the future.
IIRC, Scala.NET was basically killed by the fact that .NET reified generics and Scala's generics are pretty fundamentally incompatible, which means a .NET implementation of Scala would either not be very Scala or not have a good .NET interop story.
Here's a SLIME tip I recently found out:

C-c I -- this will give you an inspector that is much better than using (inspect foo)
Although I supported the anti-trust action taken against Apple, I have to say that agree with them in regards to these ridiculous charges.
I do this quite aggressively about local companies but i know them and have mutual respect through meetups. Once you have a relationship you get lots of inside info that they would NEVER say to a stranger.
He's the Speaker of the House (i.e. the presiding officer.) He sets the schedule for votes, so he can kill a bill by failing to schedule it for one.
Neither F# nor C# are "completely the same thing" as Scala.
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Apples to oranges. Game of Thrones series are inherently meant for distribution, while my emails and your HIV report are not.
OK, getting a referral is good.

The link to my personal site has the role of a resume -- it is to show that I'm not sure random person off the street, I am someone who may well be worth recruiting.

The idea is that the contact will see that a serious, experienced, front-end designer/developer just made contact and may well want to pitch their company to me.

I'm not looking for them to slag off their company, of course.

I am fine being pitched to, but I'd prefer that a fellow developer does this.
Excellent comment.

There's a weird kind of "back in the idealistic days of yore" element to this. Texting during meals, for example, isn't something I regularly do. But. I can think of many situations where it's been important in solving a social problem. For example, if someone got lost en route and needs a little help. Or is running late and just wants to politely let you know to go ahead and order. To ignore those messages would be kind of an asshole move.

Remember when not everyone carried mobile phones? Basic communication when people were out-and-about was wildly inconvenient if not completely impossible. Tons of time and energy got wasted doing basic tasks we now completely take for granted.
I'm on the fence about the whole "exploitation" thing. But it's surely false that "trade is the foundation of any economy".

I think it's more accurate to say "trade is the foundation of a market". According to Smith, river-valley civilizations arose because of markets. Markets arose because of specialization. Specialization arose because the rivers allowed more efficient transportation of goods than land (by a factor of 50?).

But for the paleolithic era, most tribes shared goods communally. No trade needed.
This is really one of those questions that _requires_ someone to spoon feed you the answer.

He is asking a Scala expert to describe how a port to JavaScript allows developers to take advantage of advanced Scala language features or tools. The alternative is spending hours working with Scala and coming up with the answer himself.

Being a discussion forum, I don't see why you have a problem giving away knowledge freely over HN.
Does all of that $1100/hr go to Bromwich, or is it payed to the federal government (or the company that pays Bromwich) who then pays Bromwich some percentage of that? We've had contracts at work for $80,000/yr where the contractor only saw $50,000 of that. The rest was payed to the company he worked for.

If the entire sum isn't going to Bromwich or if the court agrees with the price he's charging, I'd chalk it up to being the price you pay for anti-trust behavior. Then again, I don't know how much a company should pay for compliance monitoring after being convicted of anti-trust behavior. Either way it is a lot of money, but if it's not all going to Bromwich's pockets, it sounds like a fine being imposed for the duration of the anti-trust monitoring.
I did this, with great success, when I was applying to math graduate schools.

I was in an unusual situation -- had been out of school for five years, and so did not have any useful contacts. So I browsed the personal home pages of graduate students at programs I was interested in, e-mailed several of them out of the blue, and asked them about what they liked about their programs.

For the most part, they were wonderfully supportive. I got several very substantive and encouraging replies, and learned some useful information about programs I was interested in. I'm very glad I did it.

The situation was somewhat different from OP's --- I didn't want anything from them (and indeed there was nothing they could have done for me) other than to reply to my messages. In particular, I didn't entertain the thought of sending them a resume to pass on (it wouldn't have helped).

So different situation, but for me it worked.
Everyone keeps looking to Sailfish as a FOSS alternative to Android. I'm sorry to burst your bubble, but the "swipe UI" in Sailfish is proprietary. As for the rest of the OS, it's just Mer (ie. a fork of MeeGo). As AOSP is a fully functional OS even without Google's proprietary bits, I'd say Android is still the better bet. If you are that dedicated, you can use pure AOSP and load all your apps onto the SD card and simply install with the package manager. It's as easy as installing .debs on a Debian based distro or installing from .dmg on a Mac.

I think the big takeaway from this is that Mer will be compatible with a bunch more Android devices. This means you can then install Plasma Active on top of it, and have a pure FOSS mobile OS that actually performs well (Plasma Active seems to run quite slick on the first gen Nexus 7 anyways).
I was thinking the same thing. A quick glance at the code (I don't speak js) seems it's not doing this.
> Speak to your OB and ask if the vaccines given to pregnant women are the same as the ones from Walgreens or Safeway... and ask about the mercury.

See, you can't even get that right. Setting aside for a moment the fact that autism rates have continued to increase despite the removal of thimerosal from nearly all vaccines (and that you get a lot more mercury from coal power plant emissions)...

The version of the flu shot that's contraindicated for pregnancy is the nasal spray, which lacks thimerosal because it's a single-dose variant. People at Walgreens/Safeway love the nasal spray.

http://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/hcp/vis/vis-statements/flulive.h... "LAIV may be given to people 2 through 49 years of age, who are not pregnant. LAIV does not contain thimerosal or other preservatives."

Pregnant women have to get the shot, which in multi-dose vials contains the preservative.
So we can give them a living wage, which will accelerate the development of a robotic replacement, so that they can earn a bit more in the meantime, before their inevitable unemployment?
Would you be more comfortable giving your fingerprint or DNA sample to prove your identity?

Side note: maybe there could be a way to irreversibly hash one's fingerprint or DNA sample into an electronic signature
Starting off a relationship with a series of lies (even small ones) isn't a good idea. If you are actually trying to use the product, great -- if not, there are plenty of truthful openings.
If Apple were forced to pay the State $70,000 per week, I don't think this would be an issue. I do find it uncomfortable that the State is forcing Apple to transfer wealth to another private party without any (obvious) oversight.
Employers often prefer passive candidates to actives--it's the "playing hard to get" thing.

As to the informational interview -- is that also the term used when the candidate makes contact to a peer? If so, then it's good to know that the concept exists.
Plus, by breathing, they're taking in a lot more mercury than they'll ever see out of a vaccine, thanks to coal power plants.
Odd. I don't recall anyone at the DMV forcing my license on me at gunpoint.
Wow, great! And the idea of getting my resume passed on is very much secondary -- the main purpose here is informational only -- I want to learn about the company.
I dislike both "him" and "them" in this example, but of the two, "him" is more accurate since the code is referring only to a single writer, and not to a collection of writers.

"them" may feel to Alex like a #SMASHPATRIARCHY moment enabling a world of joy and rainbow unicorns by subverting the domination of white men, but in this example, in a possible multiple writer environment, it seems a poor choice of words.

How about instead of "him" and certainly not the terrible but feel good choice of "them", how about "the writer"?

Also, I am not sure why Alex felt it necessary to describe the dialog as "shit like this". It's a group of developers holding a discussion. I don't see much in it that I would characterize as 'shit'. I see dialog. Attitudes expressed as Alex has here are what holds a lot of progress back by raising defenses and mischaracterizing the honest and sincere efforts of others.
Even the approach of sending cold emails may not be as effective, since plenty of restaurants still don't leverage basic tools available for communication and connection, including the internet.

As Yiggy said, try sourcing targets from Yelp and Open Table, then proceed to catch someone who is willing to talk during low traffic hours.

Not sure if this strategy is the best, but just something to think about when dealing with people in and around the service industry.
I draw the line between things that are intended to be private, and things that are intended to be publicly available.

If HBO intended to only share Game of Thrones with their friends and not the public, then it's their right to encrypt it and only make it available to those people. If their intention is to share it with me because I paid for it, it's a little bit ridiculous to give me access to the decryption key (perhaps embedded in a blu-ray player I own) and then tell me how and when I'm allowed to use it under penalty of law.
As someone mentioned, this is a gut feeling from someone who is pro-vaccine. It is true that I don't have information -- I'm actively, sincerely seeking information. Would you knock me for that? I understand there are anti-vaccine, conspiracy theorist kooks out there, but I'm not one of them.

I also don't have information saying spreading out the doses over time would be better or worse. What are other countries doing WRT infant vaccine schedules? What are some options that still get my child vaccinated against disease? Are the doses they take 1/20th the amount that I would take, since I'm 20 times their weight? Does scaling doses even work that way? Why didn't I take organic chemistry when I was in college? Does ethyl-mercury metabolize into anything? When the CDC says 'a tiny bit' what does that mean quantitatively? These are just some of the questions I'm asking, so that I don't remain ignorant.

It's no credit to remain ignorant, and it's no credit to be a belligerent fanatic on either side. If I can be bothered to wash my kid's grapes before they eat them, I could at least understand what the doctor is putting in them before following blindly.
Author of OriDomi here. Really excited to see this at the top of HN.

I recently pushed out version 1.0 with some new features that make OriDomi easier to use.

It now has an internal queueing system so you can chain up effect sequences instead of dealing with callback handlers. [1] What looks like a chain of synchronous calls will now be deferred and sequenced automatically, e.g.:

folded.curl(50).collapse().setSpeed(2000).stairs(-29).foldUp().unfold();

Secondly, OriDomi elements are now fully responsive, meaning they adapt to changing dimensions caused by media queries, window resizing, etc. You can see this behavior with the demos by resizing your browser, or on the current iteration of my personal site. [2]

Finally, there are two new methods that make it easy to do custom folding behavior and content manipulation, .map() [3] and .modifyContent() [4]. The former lets you pass your own function to define folding based on input angle and panel index.

It's still relatively lightweight with zero dependencies and 7.6KB gzipped and minified. More than anything, a testament to what you can do with the modern browser API.

Looking forward to seeing what else people do with it. Check out the annotated source [5] for a look at how it works.

[1] http://oridomi.com/#queueing

[2] http://oxism.com

[3] http://oridomi.com/#custom

[4] http://oridomi.com/#content-manipulation

[5] http://oridomi.com/docs/oridomi.html
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But this isn't a question about Vermeer's use of light, it's a question about the physics of light and the psychophysics of visual perception.
I had a friend who used to work for one of Match's competitors. He left when he learned of the unethical bullshit that goes behind the scenes. It's actually pretty awful.

The fake profiles are almost always female because sites like Match.com are heavily male dominated - they're what you would call sausage-fests. To even out the numbers, the site hires contractors to create fake but plausible profiles of decently attractive women, which is not a hard thing to do.

But it doesn't stop there. Let's say that you as a male user subscribe to the service and send out twenty beautifully-crafted messages to women who seem like good matches, and eagerly wait for a response. When none comes (since every decently attractive woman receives tens of messages everyday, and yours was just one of them), you lose your motivation. Just as you're about to cancel though, you receive a hopeful "nudge" or a "wink" from someone. Maybe you message back and forth a few times, enough such that you decide not to write off the site and allow your subscription to renew.

What happened is that you got gamed. These sites are very good at algorithmicly determining "at risk" users and they target them heavily with attention from fake profiles to induce them to stay. Of course, nothing comes out of those interactions but that doesn't matter - the longer the site can string along the user, the more money it makes.

My friend told me that ALL paid online dating sites (including Match) engage in this practice, which makes total sense. After all, you don't want users leaving your site in droves and signing up for the competition. You need to convince them somehow that they aren't total losers, and the best way to do that is to have a blond, 27-year old "Jessica" -- who loves dogs and just moved to the user's city and is looking for fun things to do -- give them some attention.
I know there alternatives but my problem is with the direction Google are taking Android and the fact they are abandoning existing open apps and replacing them with closed-source ones. More and more apps will not function either because they rely on Google Play Services, so trying to go around the issue by using OSS apps (such as through F-Droid) will only be feasible for so long, eventually Google will have so much of the API tied into Google Play Services it just is pointless to make an app without it. Google made a decision that its openness on Android is a strategic weakness, damaging potential revenues and user data acquisition. That's fine, I'm not crying over it, I am just going to leave the platform as soon as I can and go to something which is more open, such as Firefox OS (or possibly Jolla OS).
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That is why i'm suggesting it also becomes a more generic IM app, with all 4 platform support. It seems like they are working on that although.
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