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To people who wants to know how scientific Sanskrit language is and also about how we are missing it's essence:

http://www.hinduwisdom.info/Sanskrit.htm

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3cQ4hIG9w7c

http://www.outlookindia.com/article.aspx?262393

BTW, I am from OK and travelled to India in the context of ancient real values. Travelled to many parts of Himalayas and learned bit about the language, quite amazed how such a great language like Sanskrit really has lost its lime light. Many great prescriptions of Medicine, Science, and Astrology are hidden in the great language. I am not trying to convince anyone but just thought of sharing my thoughts. For those of you, who have learnt it at their schools mostly read it as subject, not really learned its real value.
Good suggestion. I was thinking the same, so I started working on something, but it's still pretty basic. Communication should be easy, just as speaking.
The Evolution of Female Bisexuality
It's interesting that there's renewed interest in a modern systems programming language. However, I feel as though the world doesn't need another ALGOL-like language. C# is very good at what it does, but managed code will always execute at a slight penalty vs native code. Nonetheless this will be an interesting experiment into a modern "safe" systems language.
> Those characters do not live in your head.

The problem with that argument is that this statement is simply not true once you tell me about the characters. Now they are in my mind too, and I want control over my own thoughts, just as you do.

I understand that you're saying that the ideas remain yours whether they are in your mind or mine. Either way, accepting your characters into my mind means giving up my control over my mind and thoughts. You are colonizing my mind with your ideas and insisting on limits on my thoughts about them. This would be all right if you paid me rent for storing your creations in my brain, but that would be completely impractical.

> Copyright is just a legal extension of that God-hood I exert over things in my head.

Analogies between humans and divine attributes tend to fall apart when they have to deal with the existence of more than one human. I think this highlights the weakness of the author's moral rights. The author's creation of the character was inspired by many other human creations and real-life characters. The character will go on to be recreated by every person whose unique perspective influences its imagination. Yet the moral rights argument requires picking out one act of creation, conferring divinity upon it, and pretending there are no rival divinities that could possibly conflict with its solitary status.
Sococo.com has a team communications app. Not exactly made for family calls, but works fine. Free. Disclaimer: I work at Sococo. And phone calls run P2P and are encrypted. Unless your bandwidth is exceeded; then it runs through a multiplexing 'media node' that operates like a router.

Video, doc sharing, chat, multiple people sharing all that or splitting up into groups or pairs - all by clicking around a map.
The ability to seize money doesn't seem necessary for taxation to work. For example, the government could simply throw you in jail or seize your physical assets if you fail to pay taxes.
This reminds me of a few questions I have. Some people claim that perfect or absolute pitch gains the ability to instantly recognize harmonic structures, other people say it's a hindrance to anybody that needs to transpose, or, say, play on an old piano tuned to 432, or listen to pressings of Kind of Blue that're played back sharp. And I've never seen a discussion of PP/AP vs the ability that string and wind players have to play to just intonation (vs. e.g. a piano's equal temperament with octave stretches)

The posts in /r/musictheory are interesting, the one about perfect/absolute pitch being located in the same part of the brain responsible for language recognition, and possibly synesthesia

http://www.reddit.com/r/musictheory/comments/12j97f/can_abso...

And here trained musicians argue about instant chord recognition and "party trick"-ness. Maybe PP is like "programming language expressiveness" on HN, everybody is certain they know exactly what it means.

http://www.reddit.com/r/musictheory/comments/12k6ep/the_trut...
This is the future, a combination of land and resource taxes (including negative resource taxes like carbon taxes) that fund a post-scarcity Basic Income.
I am big C++ fan, but i understand that the C++ language is going into nowhere. It's like "all in one" solution that is too big, too hard to learn and use nowadays. I've been using C++ for more than 10 years, still many things are shocking me ))

I am sure C# is the "Next Main Desktop App Dev. Language". I really wish MS would OPEN-SOURCE it one day. You can read article in my blog about that here (really short): http://anthonyakentiev.github.io/blog/2013/12/08/what-if-see...

I wish C# will be used freely everywhere - on Apple, on Android, on Linux... Really - Mono/Xamarin does not have a full .NET/CLR/C#/frameworks support.
> Between the screen size, SD card support, Google navigation, Swype, replaceable battery, general Android advantages (notifications, Google account integration), Chrome, hardware back button

While i understand and respect that for a lot of people, these are compelling features that differentiates high end Android Phones from iPhones, it also seems to me that most of these are simply manifestations of the different priorities and compromises made by Apple and Google, Samsung et al. I mean, it's not like it's not within Apple's power to add each of these to the iPhone. It's just that they choose not to, because each of these come with some kind of compromise that is not acceptable to Apple. Which is cool and only goes to show that it's good that we have competition.

The reason I write though, is because I think it's disingenous to assert that Apple has somehow fallen behind, technologically, when they are very clearly keeping up and at the top of their game (look no further than the A7 chip). You may prefer a Samsung to an iPhone, because you find that you prefer the particular compromises made by Samsung/Google to those made by Apple. But understand that this has everything to do with what subjectively appeals to you and nothing to do with the actual technologically capabilities of each of these companies.
The point is that seizing physical assets and keeping you in prison costs a lot more than collecting money.
I haven't read the book myself but heard they censored the use of drugs (I understood they replaced cocaine with tabacco).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sherlock_Holmes#Use_of_drugs

It makes me wonder if uncensored copies can now circulate freely.
One thing that McDonalds do is add the salt to the fries for you. This seems a little bit odd if you have been used to buying 'chips' from a British Fish and Chip shop.

However the 'salt' they add isn't just salt. It is a mix of sugar and salt. This does work wonders for making them taste really nice, it works well with regular 'chips' too. Yet it is tantamount to deception, unless you are in the know you would never imagine that McDonalds fries are sugar coated.
A crowd funded political party's metro ride to Delhi Secretariat
It's funny because it's the exact opposite for me as a French guy living in the US. I find MacDonald's to be vastly superior in France, and it's also the opinion of all my French friends who have tried both.

They say that McDonald's adapt their recipes to the taste of the country they're in, which these anecdotal observations would support :)

It's a shame we don't have 5 Guys though...
A&E reverses suspension of 'Duck Dynasty's' Phil Robertson
You can compress these things and a lot of people have, but to live like this is another story.

I myself build homes, apartments, I also design kitchens, did flips, and I can tell you that I have not met one person that could live in a tiny box like that. Yes, it is a dream of everyone, to be very simple and live like this, but this is not going to happen.

She moved from 2,500sqft to 200sqft, why? You don't wake up one day and do that unless you cannot afford living in a house, and I don't care what she says. Maybe it's her cottage or trailer, I really don't know, but don't believe anything they say on the news.

A lot of people would go insane in a 200sqft space. It's like a cell. If anyone wants to try, please come live in my shed. It's very minimalistic, raw, super nice like this place.

:)
I take it these ROMs are considered abandonware [0], rather than actually being legally free?

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abandonware
Why Clipperz is moving out of the US
All good; but curious: in Britain when cases are found to be tainted by prejudice, it isn't routine to throw them all out? Instead they are preserved in case the 'offender' had done something else too? Like maybe robbed a bank or cheated on taxes I guess (sarcasm).
2013: Year Of The Bitcoin
Controlling FPGA module from an ARM Processor
Finally a post that warrants the most overused of HN accusations: SNAKE OIL! ;)
And secure cookies, yes. But as we have seen, those things simply do not work out. As the usual layered security approach, it's good idea not to provide HTTP service at all, so redirection isn't hiding failures to use HTTPS.
PC Plus: replacing Modern UI by Android
The science behind fonts (and how they make you feel)
Yes there is. The amount of hold up time is specified in the flash manufacturer's data sheets.

The problem is that the flash has an internal state machine that performs the charge tunneling as an iterative process: it tunnels some charge, checks the level on the floating gate, and repeats as necessary. If the power to the flash chip goes away or glitches during this internal programming process, the flash write fails in indeterminate and sometimes very unexpected ways.
I would suggest WEBRTC via premade service you make sure there are Firefox/Chrome browser on his computer and point to url. Properly peer-to-peer.

http://appear.in/fathersfirstlastname
IANAL, but the FAQ on the MAME Wiki says they're not (although i wonder how they (The Archive) then get away with it...)

http://www.mamedev.org/devwiki/index.php?title=FAQ:ROMs#Isn....
Deploying Rails from prag prog (http://pragprog.com/book/cbdepra/deploying-rails) goes into some of that.

However "whenever" for example has its own capistrano task to deal with deployments, as do a lot of other tools. (delayed_job or resque for example) If you are talking about installing the whole stack then you need to look a something like chef, puppet or ansible.

I know chef and puppet, but I'm currently learning use ansible to do rails deploy, if you want to pair program on some setup script for Rails4 on digital ocean or ec2, let me know.

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You'd want to do it as a WordPress plugin, this way you're not fucking around with any core files and it should be upgrade proof (for the most part). Start Here: http://codex.wordpress.org/Writing_a_Plugin
Ironically, this actually isn't hurting Google in tablets. Over the past year or so, they've pulled in all of the bigger names (B&N, Kobo, Nabi, etc.) except Amazon and many of the budget OEMs as well (Archos, Coby, Ematic, ...). Maybe they're doing more outreach because Google is more concerned about tablets. It almost makes me wonder if the best way to get Google to pay attention to your phones is to make a tablet or two as well.
Nowhere in the interview does the architect say that this is an original idea. She explicitly mentions that it is a growing trend, in fact. And also the words "micro" and "mini" don't appear at all in the article.

This is cool because she did a stunningly beautiful job on an 11,000$ budget. Her aesthetic sensibilities are, from the looks of this project, almost perfectly aligned with mine... but I have none of the talent to create something so beautiful in any medium unfortunately. Wow!
I don't understand how the title relates to the content. Some handwaving about the cost of "cheating" (or vs. the cost of something else that I'm going to assume is "not cheating") wrapped in a bit of libertarian science fiction?

If I can figure out who someone is who is spending cryptocurrency in a way I don't like, can't I just pay someone to make them transfer their bitcoins to me, or just kill them? If I have 1000x more bitcoins than they do to pay assassins and bodyguards, how could they resist me?

Can someone who is more in tune with this sort of theory explain it to me? Am I understanding anything here?
Anyone else surprised that the size of the ZIP is 42+ GB? I'm thinking these are pre-1990 games (i.e. Street Fighter 2 does not seem like abandonware just yet). Assuming a very generous average of 5MB per zipped ROM, that's 8,400 vintage arcade games in there.
Well, they put themselves in the same situation as other ROM distributors. They probably mention somewhere that it's illegal to "keep" a ROM unless you actually own the original game and pretend to provide them for the sake of "backup".
Agreed. Stunts like this are done by design students; what evidence that anyone lives in it, for any significant amount of time?

I've had a strange notion recently, that these things are actually not helpful in the larger scheme of things. Some creative person goes an lives in a shoebox; no room to design or socialize or have a hobby or even bring work home. Now we've taken a productive person out of society and turned them into a hermit. How does that help? It seems selfish at some level.
What do you want it to do for you? Help fund a car (just put it into a savings account)? Help purchase a home (put it into fixed income, bonds or CDs)? Or keep you comfortable when you retire (put it into a good mutual fund)?

Generally speaking, mutual funds are a good balance for novice investors if you don't need the funds for a few years. I've had good results (>10% compounded annually) with funds that have a good track record and fund manager over 10 years. Best performers for me are HFCSX and BGRFX.

A little more modern, and I'm not sure what the offerings are in Euros, are peer lending sites like Lending Club.
Depends on how you feel about the vedic "sciences."
Kotlin seems nice but when's Kotlin going to be "for real"?

What I mean by that is, when will it go 1.0? When will we see a major project from Jetbrains implemented in it?

Kotlin has been around for a couple of years now and Jetbrains still won't answer these questions as far as I can see[1].

[1] - http://devnet.jetbrains.com/message/5490337?tstart=0
The past: http://giacomoballi.com/13-most-popular-products-of-2013/
and the future: http://giacomoballi.com/13-trends-that-will-drive-the-future...
It also uses OPUS as the audio codec and has mobile clients, which is kinda nice :)
Strange, I only see 2.1.0-dev and 2.1.0-preview1, even after I do this... Any tips?

EDIT: rbenv-update'='(cd ~/.rbenv/plugins/ruby-build && git pull) did the trick.
At the community college I went to, you took as many or as few classes as you wanted, and could quit and return at any semester as you pleased.

What's with all the bullshit rules and time pressure?
Ah, true - there's no support for any other BIOS-based services, so that's not going to be a problem. Being 32-bit only isn't really an issue, there's no theoretical problem with a UEFI-based bootloader jumping into 32-bit before executing a multiboot image. You won't be able to make any UEFI runtime calls, but that's probably not a high priority anyway.
Why did they put them all in one giant zip file? I would love to participate in the BitTorrent swarm, but I'm not keeping a useless [1] 42 GB zip file around.

[1] Apart from using fuse-zip, but as far as I can tell, that doesn't work in Windows.
The world's 13th-best Donkey Kong player has something to prove
I Can’t Believe I’m Saying This, But T-Mobile Is Awesome
Technology is not "shit to buy"
see hookflash.me, they have an open source implementation called openpeer. (https://github.com/openpeer/)
XZ sounds interesting. Anybody know if work is in progress to add XZ support in webbrowsers as an alternative to gz compression? Any webserver already supporting xz?
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Actually, no, it's not just a tricked out mobile home. Apart from size, it's constructed like most regular homes, but even higher quality. Most tiny houses are built using stick framing, same as regular houses, with 6" exterior walls and lots of insulation (higher insulation level than most regular homes), have level of interior trim that is similar to but usually better than regular homes. Also most tiny houses are built so at least part of structure has very high ceilings, 11 to 12 feet, which greatly adds to feeling of spaciousness. Tiny homes cost much more per square foot than regular size homes, but of course are much cheaper overall. Even though they're usually built on wheeled trailers and can be moved, they're not built for constant moving.

In short, tiny homes are built to "feel" like a regular home, even though much smaller. Mobile homes, in contrast, are not, generally feel cheap and light, much different experience.
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>You may not like something, but that is your preference. Don't impose it on us.

His opinion isn't an imposition on you. Not even his opinion on what you should or should not be doing. If you find it to be, that's a boundary issue.
Agreed, well worth the price. The most useful books i have are these 2 Math for Physics undergrads books that capsulize the first 2 years of calculus, linear algebra etc that all math, physics, EE students go thru

http://www.scribd.com/doc/65695685/Mary-L-Boas-Mathematical-...

(older edition of Arfken et al

http://www.scribd.com/doc/84183760/Arfken-G-B-Weber-H-J-Math...
Urban legend, I believe.
It's more like a design statement. Workstations are for us plebes that use Linux.
Even assuming that people started having four children "for the human race to survive" (a wacky thought in itself) what would prevent a family from having a compound of two or three tiny homes? At some point you would need so many tiny homes you wouldn't have much cost savings. But seems totally doable to have pair of homes or trio of homes, with, e.g., kids sleeping in one and parents in another, connected by common deck/porch.
Mame has support for later arcade machines, which have CD-ROM drives and hard drives.
It shouldn't be based on lifetimes or the number of generations, just a flat number of years.

If I buy an annuity that pays out over 50 years, it should pay out over 50 years, whether or not I die tomorrow or I live another hundred.
Policemen, public school teachers and alike will be the first ones to notice prices rising faster than their salaries. They will the first to change jobs or become largely corrupt on all levels (like it was in Russia after the fall of the Soviet Union). Bureaucrats will smell the approaching panic and, instead of trying to retain control over the employees, will privatize as much public goods as possible, again, exactly like during the fall of the Soviet Union. People will see how all promised public services are either abandoned or stolen,

I may be reading this wrong, but it seems the author sees the scenario above as preferential to the current system. I am no libertarian, but how can 90s Russia be a good example for a society? Do people saying something like that sometimes leave their abstractions and ask people who were on the ground back then? average life expectancy fell more than 5 years between 1989 and 1994.
While home consoles like the NES has very small game sizes (often just a handful of kb per room), I think arcade games tended to have a lot more space available for huge sprites and music.
Yeah but it costs you everything.
Yahoo bought PeerCDN, which uses data channels from WebRTC.
The problem is deciding what unit to which you need to apply the renewal costs. A photographer may make hundreds of very creative works a year, while an author may make only one.
Oh, gosh, the usual Hindutva nonsense. Let me first of all dispel any notion that I don't like learning languages "for fun." See my Hacker News user profile for more details on what languages I have learned. I have learned enough facts about Sanskrit and the various languages that are written in the Devanagari alphabet to know

1) The written history of Sanskrit is much less that 3,000 years long. (The historiography of India is hard, because most of the writing materials used in ancient India were perishable, and thus much less preserved than the written records of other parts of the world that are equally old, but plainly the Vedas and other texts from ancient India are less than 3,000 years old.)

2) Yes, Sanskrit is an Indo-European language, which means it brings to mind features of other Indo-European languages. Each cognate language makes it easier to learn other cognate languages in turn. So you could gain an advantage in learning Sanskrit, for example, by learning German, Russian, and Greek first (as I have). Or you could learn Sanskrit first, as many secondary school students in India have done. But while learning each language, you might still ask yourself, "What texts am I going to read, or what conversations will I have, now that I know this language?" Sanskrit doesn't have a particularly high degree of utility, if that is what you are looking for in a new language, for day-by-day communication today.

3) Finnish is not an Indo-European language, so it is not cognate to Sanskrit, and therefore learning Sanskrit doesn't provide much advantage for learning Finnish. Come on, get the basis facts right. Learning Estonian would provide a huge boost for learning Finnish, of course. Learning Hungarian, Turkish, or even Mongolian would provide more remote advantages for learning Finnish.

4) Learning Tamil, Malayalam, or other languages of south India usually categorized as Dravidian (not cognate with Indo-European) languages just might give you a deeper understanding of India and its cultural heritage than the same effort spent learning Sanskrit. That's something to think about if you like India and its culture, as I do.

5) If you would like to learn a language that maps well in its linguistic structure to first-order logic notation, I strongly recommend Chinese (Modern Standard Chinese or some other Sinitic language) over any Indo-European language, including Sanskrit. All languages have arbitrary grammatical rules. Strictly speaking, no language is more "logical" than any other. But if you like a one-to-one correspondence between spoken language sentence structure and the usual first-order logic notation, Chinese is a good place to start.
How to Deal with a Job You Don’t Like
When yuppies do it, it's a tiny house. When everyone else does, it's a trailer.
XSS in Gmail through Rapportive
Drops mouse=up event sometimes...IE 11.0.9600
I don't see why Microsoft would create something that would work on other systems....they want people to use Windows.
MAME supports zipped roms, they should have been each zipped separately...
One small thing to take note of though with private plugins is to make sure the name of the plugin is unique enough that it won't collide with another one in the repository. A minor issue though.
Say Something by A Great Big World cover by Haven Chambers
I would expect a DMCA takedown on this from at least Namco and Nintendo before the week is over. So grab it while you can (if you don't have an archive like this already).
Talk to anyone about food, and everyone will have a different opinion of what/who/where the "perfect" is: the perfect pizza, the perfect burger, the perfect sushi, the perfect pie, the perfect ____. Everyone obviously has different tastes and it's universally acknowledged to be a subjective, if not contentious, topic.

If nothing else, I appreciate that the author laid out his criteria for selection, and didn't just jump straight into it.
Persisting CLOS objects
Swing is also fully rendered on the GPU.

Seesaw is the only reason why I'm still bothering with Swing too, it actually makes the thing fun to use!