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> It definitely is not wealthy.

> reasonably affluent households

> it's not the same thing as being rich.

Now you're just playing with semantics. "Wealthy", "affluent", and "rich" are all synonyms with subtly different connotations.

Statistically, if your family is making $100k/year, you have access to more money than the vast majority of American families.

> but that's really comparing apples and oranges

Yes, exactly! It's comparing wealthy people to not-wealthy people.

I get that the money doesn't buy as much as you might hope it would; it doesn't feel "rich" because you imagine "rich" to include luxurious vacations and a huge house or what-have-you. And it doesn't seem "rich" because you measure yourself against even-wealthier people in your social and professional orbit--and you discount not-rich families as "oranges" that are not comparable to your own "apples".

But in terms of raw numbers--not feelings--you're pretty well-off.
I guess my math teacher was just awesome, then. (Shout out to Mr. Tapps in Van Meter, IA).

I remember doing "proofs" (although they were very simple) in high school.
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Why can't you just disable Secure Boot from the UEFI? http://www.microsoft.com/surface/en-us/support/warranty-serv...
Unfortunately, if you don't use Windows 8 you won't be able to run those apps in the first place.

If you're talking about Metro apps, of course.
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I know upgrades-in-place are not officially supported by Mint, but has anyone done it for 15->16 without exploding their system?
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That's correct, I love the actor system in Erlang, and I wish I had access to it in every other language I've used.

Building multi-threaded applications with functional programming forced me to write pure functions - or close enough, Erlang does have some side-effects but this is just to make it more useable than the mostly academic Haskell.

I've carried this approach into C# and Java, and typically end up with methods that fit a multi-threaded paradigm by default because of their lack of state. As a freebie, they can be effortlessly unit tested by mocking their direct parameters and testing the return values (no need to mock or test state).
The study actually distinguishes between "tree nuts" and "peanuts", with separate variables for each.
Thanks, We'll add these to the list :)
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Read their explanation though:

"For example, the coefficients of a polynomial
a0 + a1 x + a2 x2 + . . . + an xn clearly cry out for the zero-offset a[0..n], while
a vector of N data points x i , i = 1 . . . N calls for a unit-offset x[1..N]"

The polynomial cries out for zero for a real mathematical reason. Zero really is more natural there. The vector of N data points "calls" for a unit-offset because, um, convention?
What is even more strange, is that modern Android phones (at least the Nexus line) don't support mounting the internal memory as a fat-32 device -- they use MTP or PTP for file transfers. So as far as I can tell, there is no reason for them to use fat-32 internally anymore. Or am I missing something?
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Truth be told, merchants don't want that risk. Merchants don't even want NFC - they want payment to be made securely and not have negative impact on their customers.
I think that each of us should ask ourselves the question, "Is this topic good for HN" more often.

The commentary on the linked threads is, arguably, low quality discussion, and tends to bring out the worst in us -- self-included. Any topic that might encourage commentary like "Democrats shouldn't be allowed to vote" or "Republicans are racists" should be looked at with skepticism, as even the best meaning of us is subject to responding fueled by emotion.

There are times when political discussions on HN are extremely relevant to the HN community. There are times when they are not. Each of us imposes different value judgements as to which are which, but if we each choose to upvote them slightly less, and flag them more aggressively where we find them inappropriate, then perhaps we could tip the scales in favor of less of them appearing on HN, which I think is the preferable alternative to more.
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The thing is, the top journals are also _extremely_ loath to publish retractions. Give http://retractionwatch.com/2013/11/27/at-long-last-disputed-... if you haven't seen it before and note that this is a case in which one of the paper's coauthors has been pushing for the journal to retract it for years. In cases in which it's other scientists pointing out that the paper is bunk, you get situations more like http://retractionwatch.com/2013/07/04/retraction-of-19-year-... or http://retractionwatch.com/2013/06/19/why-i-retracted-my-nat...

And as for followup papers that contradict/correct the previous one, none of the journals make it easy to tell they exist or anything. So people keep citing the original erroneous paper. That last link in the previous paragraph puts some numbers to the scope of this problem if you look at it (16 citations for the retraction, 976 citations for the bogus unreproducible paper, 700 of the latter coming _after_ the retraction was published).
It is really interesting to me that you say there was a lack of identification with the protagonist because for me the best FPS games are ones where I am the protagonist. BJ Blakoqitz (however it was spelled. too lazy to look it up) wasn't a charater. He was a set of eyes for me to look through and I wasn't playing as BJ, BJ was me. I was the one in that situation.

With traditional narrative films I might say, "Wouldn't it be cool to be ____" or "What would I do if I were the main character?" but in a good FPS it is more like "What would I do if I were there?" Which really makes identification a really different thing. I'm not even sure if I would call it identification at that point.

So it is interesting to see that someone doesn't feel like that.
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My experience of loyalty is that often the important parts of it are in the differences people have. We all cluster around group norms, some group norms different than others - but they're large targets and any reasonably well run company will hit them. It's something they can get elsewhere, and so provides little incentive to stay.

Consequently people don't seem to quit companies, as long as the company isn't falling apart of course, as much as they quit bosses that don't take care of them. That are negligent - either through incompetence or absence - or abusive with respect to their needs.

If someone's leaving the company, it's often worthwhile to try and find out why - preferably talk to them a long time before they leave the company, so it never gets to that point. Try to find out what's going on in their lives, what their problems are, what they want to do, what they enjoy. Try to make sure you can offer that to them.

Some people want to feel like they're changing the world - that's your story group. Others want to learn to be better programmers. Others want a boss who can be flexible around their lives. Some people want to teach others. Some people just want days off for their kid's plays. Whatever their needs, most people seem to want to feel like they're important; like their opinions and their problems matter to you. Like they're not just another cog in the machine.

Things built on that sort of platform are a form of personal loyalty, that they can't easily get at other companies. They go to another company, they may talk to them about a mission, they'll probably be growing, they'll want to have a good team (whether they do or not's debatable - again, see people don't quit companies as much as managers...). But they won't have that relationship you've built. And their future bosses might be awful, it's a gamble for them - and it's not clear their winnings will be significant, at least provided you're not stiffing them on pay or something like that.
Of course, they still need to implement FAT-32 if they ever want to mount SD cards that are interoperable with other phones, cameras, etc.
I've never seen a more compelling reason to become a vegetarian.
Architecturally Vista and 7 might be similar but a lot of software fails in strange ways in Vista and not in 7. It's now worse because nobody tests against Vista.
The real flaw with reddit is moderator abuse.
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The previous-generation Larcosse radint satellites were capable of vehicle-sized resolution and were also tasked with post-strike damage assessment. Before-and-after action radar imagery could be collected regardless of cloud cover.
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One side trusts individuals to make the right decision; the other trusts bureaucratic systems to make the right decision. Both sides can get it wrong.
If you ever get the time, I feel like Half-Life would be an awesome play-through for you. It really is the #1 FPS in terms of story for me, and I've been playing through the new Black Mesa port (it's HL on a newer engine) and it's been great.

HL2 is practically unbeatable in my mind, I sound like a fanboy but it and its Episodes are really an amazing series of games.

They are extremely good at putting you in the mindset of Gordon Freeman and at creating a sense of being chased and action while presenting very relatable characters.

Also, if FPS really has you that turned-off, there has been a great revival of strategy and Rogue-like indie games recently. But it all depends on what you're interested in.

If you hate action and want to be impressed by an immersive FP experience, look at Gone Home.

http://www.gonehomegame.com/
> If you are focused on creating something, none of these "threats" would matter.

I suspect many of those who care about such things care about creating a better society, a better world.
A 'supercomputer" is defines withing 10% of world fastest computers. Since those are 20,000,000 GFlops these, a super is at leat 1,000,000 GFlops (petaflop).
Well, AppCache works just as an offline caching system for webpage assets (html files, images, javascripts, css, etc). So yeah it's technically possible to have a 5 GB offline cache, but the browser will need to download all the data first.
I don't get the controversy. I don't see this as being about making everyone into a professional programmer, no more than having every student take music class will make them a professional musician. I believe it is more about the ancillary benefits in opening up new ways of problem solving, and having some rudimentary awareness of the inner workings of a world that one might otherwise never have the chance to explore.

Some students will catch the bug and tear off on their own journey of independent learning and discovery and create great things. But for most it will just be a new dimension of a full and well-rounded primary education. The problem is that the current generation of educators and schools are largely wholly unequipped to do this, so we have to step up and help out.

I ran an after school "Tech Club" for a couple of years at my kids K-8 school. This year the administration asked me to bring it into the classroom and I am teaching 100% of the students in grades 6 - 8 basic programming with Scratch. It is just one 45 minute class per week, with each grade getting the class for one trimester (12 - 13 weeks). You can't do a whole lot in this time, but you can definitely do something, a whole lot more than the school was doing with technology before.
Nice.. having Plex on Chromecast almost makes my Roku 2 useless, almost because I subscribe to MIT/PBS channels on Roku.
Not automatically, no. And I'd bet that the contracts (i.e. 'licenses') that they've agreed to thus far have a clause that prevents the licensee from seeking a refund should the patents ever be found invalid.
The other difference between most people's first attempts with Vista and 7 is that by the time of 7's release, even Nvidia had cleaned up their driver situation (and Creative, the other main offender, seemed to basically vanish as a company you'd need something from).
Apple Stores allow you to walk in, scan an item with your phone's camera, pay, put the item in your backpack, then walk out without talking to anybody.

There's a limit ($200 max on phone self-checkout), but they don't seem concerned with shrink.
"a reality that people don't want to go to a payment terminal at all"

I had to read that section about three times because I interpreted that as "amazon app, box arrives on doorstep in two days, cheaper than in store (store aka showroom)"

That's pretty much how I shop now. Going out and paying more is already an inconvenience, waving something around, or not, is already a rounding error of the total sum of inconvenience.
Yes. Science and Nature are different in this regard. Science also has much lower subscription fees, probably because it's run by a nonprofit, where Nature is for-profit.
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Infotainment!

I know it's considered a failing of hn that commenters tend to attack the style rather than the content, but here the style is aggressively designed to provoke a particular reaction. I find that pretty insulting to the readers: "Don't bother to make up your own mind, let the sounds of dripping shit do it for you!"

It's the multimedia equivalent of Taibbi's expletive-laced purple prose.
Very nice work, ked!
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This is the interesting question. I think they don't have to.
You missed the point of my comment. My point was that you can't turn off an important (nay crucial) element of modern web applications simply because you don't like how some web sites go beyond enhancement into the black pit of defacement.

It has often been pointed out that technologies can be applied for good and bad. Simply ignoring them and hoping that the world will join you within your circle of wagons just will not work. You can't turn the clock back - you can (perhaps) demonstrate the benefit of a more appropriate implementation.

Maybe my contribution was a bit too opaque.
Bizarre it is, at least to someone who is used to a modern environment. I once hat a gig setting up a open source softare stack on AIX, it was very painful to do. AIX admins aren't really helpful either because their knowledge is really domain specific and everything they usually run is well documented / supported by IBM.

For anything open source related on AIX, http://www.perzl.org/aix/ is a lifesaver.

But, the hardware just scales brutally. You can add/remove LUNs/CPUs/RAM from LPARs without interrupting operations. The Powers hosting the machines I worked on were basically bought, installed and switched on and are now up and running until they are decommissioned years later.
Recent Nexus devices are incapable of this because they lack an SD card slot.
Which is one reason why the entire Nexus series, Moto G/X, HTC One, etc don't support SD cards. That and Google wanting everyone to use the cloud.
Yup, it's usually a case of trying to interpret what the PI told you to do. They usually don't have time to actually explain the context. Or to make sure that what they're requesting isn't something entirely impossible.
Some weird icon overlap happening here on Chrome: http://tmwagency.github.io/kickoff/demos/

Does it not support breakpoint-aware grids like Bootstrap and Foundation?
No, it wouldn't. Do you really think you're the first person to try and game the system like that? You know who else tries that? Spammers who think that down voting every submission but their own actually works.
when is the chromecast app going to allow me to just select any video that i view on the internet and click the symbol to stream? I know their big worry is probably pirated movies, but that's not what i want. it's for porn.
yep, still are, and looking at that mascot, that will not change anytime soon :P
Meat in the USA is made in the Farm Industrial Complex, sure. But so is all the mass market food; becoming a vegetarian doesn't change that. And I am a vegetarian.
I'm not sure we have done the necessary work for vaapi to work sanely. However, software h264/aac video work just fine, here. mp3 also works on this release (same deal, you have to have the right gstreamer plugins), iirc (it certainly works on Nightly, which is what I use).
Every band I know who travels into Canada even kind of regularly has a horror story about customs. My band and I have played Canada three times and of the six border crossings, we had two rough experiences. The worst of them involved them searching our phones (not mine -- I left it turned off and locked in the van) for references to drugs. They found a text message one guy sent and questioned us all about it for half an hour. It was really intense.
You would just blend in with all the spammers that try to do this already.
I think bugzilla, mailinglists and irc channels might be better places to request a feature request than a comment on hacker news.
Some of us are left-leaning libertarians [1]; equally suspicious of the the concentrated power of the state and the concentrated power of private capital and corporations.

Just because you're paranoid, it doesn't mean they aren't out to get you. (Curiously, the reverse is also true, and I suspect that's what OP is reacting to.)

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a1rK4PsP0zY
I have never done any Coffee but it looks like arguments are separated by commas, and, in this case, the second argument is a function of no argument (so the left hand side of the arrow is empty).

Edit: it was meant to be a reply to the parent.
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Whatever you think of him, I think Julian Assange answers this question quite well in the introduction to Cypherpunks:

"The platonic nature of the internet, ideas and information flows, is debased by its physical origins. Its foundations are fiber optic cable lines stretching across the ocean floors, satellites spinning above our heads, computer servers housed in buildings in cities from New York to Nairobi. Like the soldier who slew Archimedes with a mere sword, so too could an armed militia take control of the peak development of Western civilization, our platonic realm.

"The new world of the internet, abstracted from the old world of brute atoms, longed for independence. But states and their friends moved to control our new world -- by controlling its physical underpinnings. The state, like an army around an oil well, or a customs agent extracting bribes at the border, would soon learn to leverage its control of physical space to gain control over our platonic realm. It would prevent the independence we had dreamed of, and then, squatting on fiber optic lines and around satellite ground stations, it would go on to mass intercept the information flow of our new world -- its very essence even as every human, economic, and political relationship embraced it. The state would leech into the veins and arteries of our new societies, gobbling up every relationship expressed or communicated, every web page read, every message sent and every thought googled, and then store this knowledge, billions of interceptions a day, undreamed of power, in vast top secret warehouses, forever. It would go on to mine and mine again this treasure, the collective private intellectual output of humanity, with ever more sophisticated search and pattern finding algorithms, enriching the treasure and maximizing the power imbalance between interceptors and the world of interceptees. And then the state would reflect what it had learned back into the physical world, to start wars, to target drones, to manipulate UN committees and trade deals, and to do favors for its vast connected network of industries, insiders and cronies."

http://cryptome.org/2012/12/assange-crypto-arms.htm
I picked one of these up during black Friday, been happy with it so far. Easy to use, simple, and cheap.
PyPy [1] is an alternative implementation of a python interpreter written in python. It includes a JIT to speed up frequently run code [2]. The canonical python interpreter is written in c, hence cpython[3], numpy interfaces with this cpython interpreter through its capi [4]. PyPy has a c api, but it is "slow" and not JIT friendly. Some of us thought it would be fun to reimplement the core numpy ndarray as a first-class PyPy object, and allow the JIT to work its magic. We are 90% of the way there, which means we only have 90% of the effort left to do.

Most of the basic stuff works, significantly missing are SIMD optimizations and lazy expression evaluation.

Unfortunately, much scientific python software is written using the cpython capi, so it will require quite a bit of retooling of things like scipy [5] for the implementation of numpy on pypy to become popular.

[1] http://pypy.org
[2] http://speed.pypy.org
[3] http://python.org
[4] http://docs.python.org/2/c-api
[5] http://www.scipy.org/
What happens if you plug in an SD reader or a FAT-formatted USB stick into the USB port via OTG? That would still require support for FAT in the OS.
> Personally, I'd love to have a screamin' Arch Linux install running Gnome Shell on top of the latest Microsoft Surface hardware. But I can't do that, can I? Why not?

Actually, you can. Here is a link for installing vanilla Ubuntu: http://www.geek.com/microsoft/how-to-install-ubuntu-on-the-s...

This same process will work fine for Arch because it simply disables the secure boot. The only issue I could see is drivers, but the article mentions the only one they had to worry about was WiFi. At least it's a Marvell chip and not a Broadcom.
Plex support! That's huge.

Though, truth be told, my 3 year old Samsung SmartTV is how I've been streaming Plex already, so...
There are farms that aren't like that. If you truly care about animal welfare make a point of only buying meat from these farms and be willing to pay the higher price.
In your list of things that hackers are insecure about you forgot women and their white knights coming in to ruin their precious traditionally male space with their inclusive pronouns and draconian prohibition on immature dick jokes in professional settings.

If something is helpful to women in tech, it has to be harmful to men, right?
Thank you. Having done a limited amount of assembly programming, 0-indexed arrays seem incredibly obvious, since they allow you to simply add the word size times the index to get the memory address of any entry in an indexed data structure. This is still almost exactly how arrays work in most (compiled) languages.

Personally, I think it's cool that there are elements of mid/high-level programming languages which still reflect very low-level operational concepts.
The victim badge is powerful. I wish there was a greater effort to hold spouses etc accountable, they are rarely innocent, and allowing the whole "I had no choice" charade just perpetuates the attitude that this is an okay defense.
Imagine if we used different symbols for counting and indexing. I think Roman numerals would be good to use for indexing.

arr[I + 0] = arr[I]
arr[II + 3] = arr[V]
arr[I - 10] = undefined
I also recently tried out Crunchbang and love it for the same reasons that you cite.

It provides everything that I love about Debian without the Ubuntu overhead.