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Pathetic.

Seriously, I've encountered these kind of denialist reactions all over the place, and it so pisses me off.

It's not normal for cops to shoot at people in any civilized country ("not normal" as in "national news if it happens"), and for a country the size and nature of Iceland it's perfectly plausible (not to mention simply true) that this is the first time someone was killed by the police.

The ultra-violent American way of policing is the aberration here, not Iceland.
More likely the judges were lazy and lying to Salesforce.
As somebody who has started businesses, the "investing your money in an equity exactly as you would treat investing in a business" strikes me as great advice if you have plenty of time, and bad advice if you don't. Investing in a business is very hard work.

I know people who do pick stocks exactly as you describe, and they do just fine. But they spend a lot of time and attention on it, and they have years of expertise. The question for me isn't, "Can I do the same," it's, "Can I do something better with my time?" For me, the answer is yes. Trading stocks is making money, but it isn't creating value. I'd rather focus on creating value.

In theory, I get your "What if one day nobody traded stocks? Index funds would be doomed!" point. But in practice I don't think we're near that point. There still seem to be plenty of business news, plenty of business reporting, plenty of people fussing about individual stocks. Indeed, it seems like way more than we need. I don't feel obliged to add to their number.
I totally understand why you started 'screaming' at him. This guy is the cliche of why people hate tech-support. I was just waiting for him to 'accidentally' delete your account.
This guy is so ex-Nokia, it's sad. He rates the latest Maemo/whatever as a higher chance of market presence than Firefox OS. OK, Nordsman... we understand you are grieving for your lost mobile device business... but you can do it in private.

Linux, via Android, commodified smartphone platforms by giving away the OS and thus commodifying the position of mobile device hardware manufacturers. This was coming anyway, but was a brilliantly timed commercial play by Google to head off Apple's strength in devices. Google's allies were the carriers, who were unhappy with Apple owning (via signup-time credit card) who they perceived as their customers.

FirefoxOS and that new Jolla thing the Nords are working on basically use exactly the same hardware and OS platform (ie. Linux). There's no huge investment there, the investment is in higher layers of the software stack, and in FirefoxOS' case in marketing to different segments (the developing world, which still has 'growth', and necessitates less competitive component acquisition for manufacturing batches).

To say a small team can't do something similar is plain wrong. I'd say the effort required is similar to launching a new Linux distribution. As long as there is a niche you can cater to, there is no reason it won't survive and thrive. CyanogenMod is only the beginning: cross-pollination is a good thing.

Start with preferably https://github.com/mozilla-b2g/ (or otherwise http://source.android.com/source/downloading.html) and begin thy mission to conquer portable computing!

(Edit: Added content after the initial paragraph after it was downvoted. Fair enough, it was a bit snarky :)
True, it doesn't figure out that some commands should be matched recursively since their arguments are other commands, xargs is also in the same boat. There might be an open bug for this already.

I only scanned sections 1 and 8 of the man page archive, so that's why files are missing.. but they can be added.
I only reply when im pooking or its ones i like to keep in touch with. 9 times out of 10 youre just their product, ignore away, you wont burn any bridges. Yet you may not get the best job offers until you start acting which may not he what you want.
Is there a good CSS minifier which looks at the CSS as well as the HTML, and shortens class names automatically? In most cases I don't really care what the class names are in the final HTML, as long as they match up with the CSS.

I realize there are a lot of things that could go wrong, such as
* correlating the HTML and CSS for an entire site instead of just one page
* dealing with third party dependencies that require certain class names to be used

Just wondering if there's any work already done with this approach.
This isn't exactly fair. You flew off the handle when somebody took longer than they should have and started swearing at them. You should have asked much earlier to speak to someone else or simply started from scratch.

I understand that you're probably worried about your account but this is no way to treat customer service representatives, or anybody for that matter. Next time, take a minute to calm down and think carefully about what you want to get out of the chat, then try with a different person. Even Amazon isn't infallible when it comes to customer service.
Note that using ultrasound as a communication mechanism, which is what's being described here, is very different from using it as an infection vector.
Another (perhaps unpopular) metric to use would be whether links were clicked before 1) upvoting, 2) clicking the comments link, 3) commenting
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> Challenge: you are now competing with the iPod Touch.

It disappoints me that nobody does this. Every attempted "competitor" I've seen that stands against the iPod Touch either costs more than the touch or is reviewed as unusable garbage.
That's what tumblers do. It only works if both A and B contribute the same sum, of course, and that means if you have 93 million dollars to tumble, you need other people to contribute another 93 million.

Which no one will, on such a short notice. Thus you end up owning both A and B, in which case the mixing is useless.
Wish the transcript had timestamps. After each message from the rep took anywhere between 5 and 15 minutes. Total conversation was just shy of an hour. I tried to remain calm for a while but this was just nuts.
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Even then, there will be a small chance of something happening that kills you and destroys all of your backups. Over a long enough time span, the probability of that happening approaches 100%. You could make it a very long time by doing that, but not forever.
Not only that, but bullets aren't magic body vaporizers. If you shoot the guy in the right hand, he can still shoot you back with his left. Firing center mass has the best chance at stopping the threat, both because it's the largest in area and because the most important organs are in there.

And you may need to hit center mass a few times before they actually stop, so don't get cute trying to shoot off fingers when innocent lives are on the line. Which is the only time it is acceptable to shoot anyone, ever.
Sounds like a job for a little statically compiled Go program :-)
Newsroom started to suck when it became "will they, won't they" relationship crap and its over the top anti-conservatism. Such a fantastic start, though.
That's what I thought a 4k monitor would cost, and I was actually very surprised Asus priced theirs at like $3,000 earlier this year. Hopefully Dell didn't cut a lot of corners, though.
Admittedly, we've not yet watched a film on the Seiki. We have fired up a few Youtube videos at full-screen and aside from looking comical (due to the large lossy compression artifacts present even in Youtube's highest quality videos), the video seems as smooth as Youtube ever does, at least to my eye.

I suspect for video from a higher-quality source, my opinion would not be so forgiving.

But put briefly, for consuming crummy web content, I have no complaints.

Don't get me wrong. I haven't yet bought one for myself principally because I am waiting for Seiki (or someone) to offer me a similarly priced 4K monitor with HDMI 2 (60Hz). If I got the current model today and a v2 of the Seiki arrived next month with HDMI 2, I would be sad. The 30Hz limitation is the most significant disadvantage of this display. So I wait.

But if you don't want to wait, the 30Hz limitation is tolerable. At <$500 now, it's very hard to restrain myself from just buying another and being done with the temptation.

More of my crazy thoughts: http://tiamat.tsotech.com/seiki-4k
> The gunman who died during a police shootout in Reykjavík this morning was the first person to die from a police shot in Iceland

I assume you could argue that this does not include police killing people by beating them or running them over with their cars, but I'd say we're safe.

[1] http://www.icelandreview.com/icelandreview/daily_news/?cat_i...
> The rapid rise of militarized SWAT teams that attack people in their homes even for minor offenses is also very scary.

America is a country where the right to bear arms is held as sacred by many. It is a country with a lot of heavily armed people. It is a country with a lot of well trained, heavily armed people. Police response over the years has evolved to meet the challenges posed by a well armed civilian population. The number one priority for police forces anywhere in the country is to not get hurt followed closely by apprehending any suspects. If you believe your suspect may have assault rifles and your priority is to not get hurt then your response will be something larger than assault rifles.

It's kind of insane to think that this is considered normal in developed country.
What comprised a submission? Is it possible that an app was legitimately reviewed and dismissed before the reviewer made it to the video?

Put another way, I look at a lot of resumes that have personal links/CVs on them. 90% of the time I've decided no before I get to them, making their inclusion irrelevant. Could this not have happened?
Tell that to Jean-Charles de Menezes. He was shot 7 times in the face from 6 inches away after a cop had wrestled him to the ground. That cop went on to kill again.
Salesforce invests an additional $1mil in Taptera
Ugh. I don't like the way he panders to an uninformed US population under media manipulation and points at Palestinians, equating them with terrorists.

Respect for ESR minus minus.
Let's record the Amazon Prime Air predictions so we can see who was right
Good list. i would agree with you that those 5 items are what to look out for in the near future (the web, Bitcoin, drones and 3D-printers). I would probably add wearable computing to the list as well.
I was contemplating some snide response that, regardless of how many apps are considered 'winners', Salesforce comes off as the loser due to bad publicity in the development community. Then I remembered they'd just been given source code and rights to a ton of pretty nifty apps for a bargain price.

Guess there are Three Winners.
Super Walmarts could certainly be justified for the population a Walmart in a city would have. Honestly I forgot non-Super Walmarts were still a thing, I haven't seen on in ages.

Property value is definitely why Walmart (particularly Super Walmarts) doesn't move into cities. Their deal is large sprawling buildings with even larger sprawling parking lots, that isn't the sort of thing that you stick into a city. They don't seem keen on trying the "multilevel, compact, with a parking garage" or "underground complex" sort of form factor that other stores successfully employ inside of cities. I suspect this is because their margins are too tight for even that (and that form factor probably discourages buying in the sort of volume that their preferred store design encourages).

One way or the other, the Walmart:people ratio seems to be far lower in cities than in towns and suburbs. If Seattle had the same Walmart density as York PA, it would have over 30 Walmarts. Walmarts are practically the Starbucks of small-town America. (Briefly sampling a few towns in PA, it seems like for ever Walmart you can expect about two Starbucks. That's actually way fewer Starbucks than I expected, I suspect Google Maps isn't being honest here...)
Technically what you're saying is you can't use Rails, you'd have to use Ruby, because Rails is pre-existing code built on top of Ruby.

That also throws out jQuery and any of its libraries.

The beauty of hackathons is they force you to think about the deliverable and attempt to mitigate reinventing the wheel by using as many plugins as possible to deliver your concept.
Please, especially if you are going to write a blog about design, do NOT use an animating logo that sticks with the page as you scroll. It makes it impossible to read the content without being constantly distracted.
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> Are alternative news sites better?

Mostly, IME, alternative news outlets are as focussed on easy narratives as major news outlets, though they often have different preferred narratives. They also, IME, tend to be more overtly partisan in their narrative preferences than most major outlets. (Fox is somewhat of an outlier among major news networks in the consistency of the partisan slant of its presentations.)

If you are passively accepting any news outlets (or any narrow set of news outlets) presentation, your getting spoonfed someone else's preferred narratives. To get beyond that, you have to actively engage by seeking out multiple sources with different biases and, where possible, reaching past them directly to the original sources of information, and critically engaging with the information.

But that's work, and even most of the people with the skills to do it aren't going to bother wtih that for most issues.
When you say "your", you mean "my", don't you? Also, you seem confused by these TV-related terms and only think of videos and games here; you'd have to be half-way blind not to see the difference between 75 and 150 PPI density with typical font sizes (computer fonts are usually a tad bigger than what's necessary just because of the lousy displays we have).
There are many more reasons to post an article than just winning internet points...
Running it well? No, with the one exception of the Mac Pro, which can supports 3 such monitors at once, but it has a GPU vastly more powerful than any Intel GPU inside the Macbooks.

Iris Pro (5200+) is just now the starting point for running a 2.5k resolution (half of 4k) well enough. Anything less still struggles with 2.5k resolutions on a "full OS" like Mac OS/Windows/Linux. So if you want an Intel GPU running it, or anything at that level, you'll need to wait for a version that has 2x the performance of 5200, and then get a 4k monitor.
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That healthcare app is actually pretty cool, how did that not win 1st place?
Like your comment whining and attacking him is an even better example of that kind of commenting, just like my comment here.

We could say that we just filled up useless space on this thread or we could simply call it a discussion, two individuals exchanging opinions.
The truth is we don't know at what point index funds will disturb the efficiency of the market. Malkiel makes a guess at 50% although I think he has an overtly optimistic view of how much rational professionals drive the market.

Regardless, let's suppose the mantra is "invest all your money in index funds until it breaks 50% after which bad things may happen". Do you think that if we manage to hit that 50% in the future, anyone will actually actively try to stop people from investing in index funds? Effectively there would be a lot of money very rich index fund managers who will be pushing to increase their fund sizes even further.

So it's possible for extreme irrational exuberance to cause even index funds to harm the market.
Pretty obvious condition would be that it's pre-existing code you wrote. I'm sure that's what the OP intended.
On a different forum I think there'd be an interesting discussion to be had over whether the trend this story predicts is valid, and, if so, if it represents the "end of the world", or a transition from a highly anomalous period of human history and a sort of comment on how fragile such equilibria are and how much it's a product of the absurdly privileged lens through which we (and Salon) view humanity.

But this is Hacker News, so what we'd get instead is tinfoil hattery about fiat money and a 50-comment-long thread about Wal Mart where people would start calling each other names midway through.

Our politics are probably more similar than they are different, but where politics are concerned, HN doesn't reward accord; it rewards raucous discord. Which is a good reason to keep politics off HN.

Thanks for the extraordinarily reasonable response to my snippy comment.
I think there's a slight distinction between using Rails and entering into a hackathon with the intention to port a recently developed app into a 'mobile' version?
And an excellent moniker for it, Jade D'Drag.
Self-driving cars don't fix the congestion problem, though. Actually, it is quite plausible that congestion might get worse with the introduction of self-driving cars, because being stuck in traffic will no longer be such a terribly mind-numbing experience.
While I don't know the facts it doesn't seem unreasonable to me that the police has never killed anyone in Iceland. It's a small and peaceful country.

I'm from Denmark, which is culturally fairly close to Iceland and we still talk about the riot in 1993 where the police fired 111 shots in the most violent encounter with rioters since the second world war (noone was killed or seriously injured). We're a country of 5 million and we have less than one person a year that gets shot to death by the police. In Norway they're right now discussing whether the police should even be allowed to carry weapons.

If you're American I can understand your disbelief, since it's an extremely violent country, but as a scandinavian it seems quite believable.
So a quad 24 Ultra HD setup would be just right..
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_killings_by_law_enforce...

so far, in 2013
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For those that don't know

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kHmvkRoEowc
I'm Canadian. And I'm not saying it's normal for cops to shoot people. I'm saying that I'm working on the assumption that it has happened at least once at some point in the (googles) 69 years of the modern country's history.

It will take more than one ambiguously-qualified offhand sentence in an article to convince me of otherwise.
The only point I'm hesitant about is the idea that feedback is absolutely necessary.

Improvement is a process of variation, selection, and inheritance. That's the fundamental process of natural selection, but it's applicable across a huge multitude of domains.

For process improvement, the "inheritence" would be your memory / neural pathway strengthening of the activity. A challenge with behavioral modifications are ways in which the feedback / reward mechanisms can be hacked to reinforce "bad" (or at least unwanted) behavior. I've commented some at G+ about what I call the dopamine meme -- effectively a large number of addictive behaviors which provide transient rewards but are ultimately long-term deleterious.

A concern with the "write something every day" model is people who write and publish absolutely all their crap. It leads to stuff such as blogspam -- I had a discussion not too long ago with an editor of an energy blog who quote their mission: "Our aim is to get people excited and discussing engineering topics." My response:

I'd prefer if you reconsidered your aim: to inform people of advances in engineering topics. Which means both an accurate portrayal of the state of the art and new developments, and a focus on relevant stories.

https://plus.google.com/104092656004159577193/posts/dbMEcysw...

Point being: if you get in the habit of writing crap, you'll get really good at writing crap. And there are numerous organizations which deliberately exploit this ("virality", "gamification" and the like -- I've seen it from the inside).
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It probably has more to do with being fined for price fixing LCD panels and the knock on effects from that.
Found that guy's facebook. It does seem real, I mean the person seems real, but I still really hope they're doing this as a joke or something.
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Shooting people in center mass has nothing to do with the safety of people around them. There is no part of the human body that is going to stop a bullet. A bullet fired from even a small pistol will rip right through a human being and pretty much anything that is behind them.

The reason people shot center body is that it is largest part of the body and it contains the most vital organs. Thus a shot there is most likely to be fatal and to keep that person from continuing to be a viable threat.

Given all of that it is easy to see that shooting an armed and dangerous individual in the leg is not a good way of dealing with them. It makes for a great feel good story but in reality it is not a good tactic.
It should not surprise anyone that a large amount of articles, stories, etc... in every publication, every day are simply because of PR. Not sure why Amazon is being picked on here.
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If everybody follows this advice, then the isp has to/will be increasing the price of the faster connection. And this is especially true in US, since there is virtually no real competition for isp.
> I've already seen what supporting Walmart has done to our country.

Jeff Bezos is the CEO of Amazon, not walmart.
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What's the purpose of your reply, exactly? To me, it seems perfectly reasonable to criticize and evaluate a potentially unfair ruling in a large, notable competition.

Now that Salesforce has given their response, it should be evaluated just like any other company statement, to see if it is accurate and meets the community standards of what's "fair". Yes, fairness is partially subjective, which is why people want to discuss it here.
In order to stay compatible with non-WebP-supporting browsers, moot would have to keep two versions of image files on the disk, causing a lot of pain and HDD waste.

It could work for the smaller boards, though...
This is brilliant. (I've forwarded it to novices and pros alike, and everyone else's response has been much the same.)

If you were to open up donations to support development, I would HAPPILY contribute.
1. * Collect massive data set.

2. Build an API.

3. Make mobile application that 'uses' API to do something cool.

4. Judges think API/Data set are inherent properties of your app.

4. Profit.

* Optional. You could just make an API that does something cool way before hackathon.

(That is my understanding of what happened with that event and it is most likely inaccurate.)
First place:

>Upshot was created by Thom Kim, who left Salesforce after nine years in Janauary, and Joseph Turian, with whom Kim had been friends since they attended Harvard University together.

Oh that sounds fishy? As a concession, we'll just award another million to 2nd place. Oh, who is second place?

>Fisher and Oliveros are employees working at Taptera, a San Francisco-based startup that received $2 million in August of 2011 from Salesforce and other investors in a Series A round of financing.
In other words, the "target" computer has to be actively listening?
How do we know this actually happened?
New Kindle Fire Commercial Takes iPad Air Head-On
Found a minor defect.

cat fil*.dat | head -100 | tail -20. Does not explain -100 in head and -20 in tail.
The problem isn't with the OSes -- it's the legacy software. There's just too much of it written against fixed DPI targets. Apple's pixel doubling (HiDPI) is a hack to get some of the benefit of high density screens without going to full resolution independence. It works really well, in my experience.