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No, it isn't.

Why is the NSA spying on ordinary people?

There might be a few bad actors, but all in all, folks in the NSA, and the military in general, actually think they are defending America from enemies. They are not far from wrong. There are actually some significant conflicts around the world, a lot more dirty stuff than what you hear from the Snowden disclosures. We American civilians are generally pretty sheltered from all of that. We actually think we're the good guys.

So the root of the problem is that we have conflicts at the world stage. If there were no conflicts, there would be no need for the military or intelligence agencies. It is that simple.

That might sound outlandishly impractical. Of course everyone has conflict. That's a given, right? Fighting over limited resources. Ideology. Unending cycles of revenge. These are rooted in human nature and emotions, stuff that can change, stuff that every single human has to deal with and learn how to handle. These concerns on privacy, while disturbing, are a distraction -- at best, a stepping stone for each of us to deal with the real issue: human nature.
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Another sidenote question: what's a good resource/tutorial to get into ruby (both the language and the ecosystem) for an experienced Python dev?
I use Simple-Grid.
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You are attacking a straw man in these posts, attempting to paint a nasty picture of someone you know nothing about.

I know what you are trying to say, and I am old enough to both have experience with people looking down on and attacking my culture, and to see young adults run away in fear because of idiotic notions instilled in them by their culture. I have seen how a lot of control over these kids is through misuse of the kids' trust in their elders.

THEIR ability to see other viewpoints has been damaged beyond repair, for many of them for most of their life. And thus their culture is maintained.

Anyway, enough of this.
"Success" is such a nebulous term that it's silly to consider the manipulator who enjoys "gaming the system" to be less successful than a worker who enjoys being productive. To assume the person playing games is struggling to stay afloat is to misread the entire workplace environment that allows and rewards manipulating behavior.
I noticed it on my tablet and thought it had something to do with Christmas. It isn't loading on my laptop, so I assumed it is a simple CSS change for Christmas.
I have a 2560x1440 27" monitor, with higher resolution than that and a 3" smaller screen wouldn't it be too small pixels?
It would have been nice if this monitor was 16:10 and not 16:9.
By ooc, do you mean the programming language? [1]

if so, can you share any thoughts on how that affected the development process? Any quirks? Any features that made it much easier?

Thanks!

[1] http://ooc-lang.org/
Absolutely.

Still, it has been way too long since there has been any progress in display resolution, so by pushing into "4K" territory it means something like 2560x1440 might just become mainstream.

Win/win: early adopters get the a shiny new 4K display for Christmas, and I get 2560x1440 for less :)
"If you believe the deflationary attribute of bitcoin will cause it to be hoarded instead of used as a tool of commerce"

I don't believe that, I think we can see that people are willing to sell it when there is something they want.
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I'm continuing to work on http://introtopython.org, an open resource for people interested in teaching and learning Python.

I unwrapped my first good set of headphones in years this morning, so spending some time coding is even more enjoyable.
Does it bother anyone else that we've moved from describing displays by vertical resolution (1080/720) to horizontal resolution (4K)?

It seems confusing for the semi-informed.

Is there an explanation other than marketing reasons?
Note that this display has no hardware scaling; if sent a signal that's less than the native resolution, it's displayed centred and unscaled. Last I checked, drivers for nVidia at least don't yet support cheap scaling for it. That means playing GPU-taxing games on it is unfeasible for the moment.

I also expect prices to come down, as 4K TV panels start to create economies of scale (even though the price isn't extortionate for what it is in the current market). The panel shouldn't always be a niche like 1920x1200 is. So I reckon this one is for early adopters.
can I link to this on techendo? We're going to start building out our learning services and links.
183 DPI is "too small" for native viewing, but it'll make prettier pictures and more readable text.
If the applications are designed for the resolution, it would mean a very good PC computing experience where you couldn't discern the pixels at all. I'm pretty excited that this exists, I would even buy one at this price if I was in the states :p.
I find autocorrect so annoying it's always the first thing I disable when getting a phone. Sure I make more typos, but at least the phone doesn't keep trying to think instead of me.

Actually, the most mistakes I've ever made when sending blurbs of texts was the several months before I figured out how to disable autocorrect on Tweetbot on my Mac. Man that was terrible. Kept having to delete tweets because I hit "Send" before fixing the autocorrected text.

Alas, if you frequently use two different languages and often mix them both in the same sentence (common among bilinguals) autocorrect is your absolute bane because it will always do the wrong thing.
> When Claire Perry is discussing "porn" on her site, she'd be using it

Claire Perry is talking about porn, but she is not talking porn. It is unfeasably hard to reliably distinguish between the two; and regular keyword matching will reliably fail to do so.
I'm taking it easy and just rebuilding by Linode with 64-bit Ubuntu (instead of the 32-bit Ubuntu I picked years ago) so I can try out HHVM. HHVM seems interesting, but there's no 32-bit build, so I need to document and migrate to a new server instance.
I expected the post to be about something like typing DuckDuckGo on a (Qwerty) PC keyboard.
Since the "Latino" category encompasses people of European, African, and Native American ancestry [1] [2], I was thinking the headline/article would be more informative if it stated which of these ancestral populations had the gene (assuming that question could be answered from the research methodology used).

Your comment answers my question; the gene occurs at highest frequency in Native American samples.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latino#Terminology

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latin_Americans#Demographics
It's chicken and egg. The software is set up for bigger pixels, especially on Windows. Higher DPI can mean higher fidelity font rendering in particular. But someone needs to come out with these monitors so that developers can adjust their rendering. MS should possibly even consider pixel-doubling apps, with perhaps some hacks to keep fonts hi-res.
I have no idea.

I would prefer "2X", which Apple calls retina. We could also call it 4X with respect to area, but 2X would be the scaling factor for applications to hit.
> I would laugh, but I've seen this up close and personal and people like this are more dangerous than they might look.

A way in which those people are extremely dangerous if the organization allows them to thrive with such a behavior is that smart, productive employees will realize early on what's happening, and will follow suit in order to not fall behind. Entire teams can get poisoned in 6-12 months just like that.
I'm still a bit annoyed at how the 16:9 content consumer has kept displays stuck at 1080p for many years now. But I can't say I don't benefit from those economies of scale. So I'll just have to wait politely for prices to come down.
Depends on how you use it. If you pull Apple's trick with retina displays (or an equivalent mode in other OSes) then no, to the user it'll appear the same as a 1920x1080 display, but with crisper text. The point is that pixels are supposed to be invisible, so in the theoretical ideal future, everything would be resolution independent so that decreasing pixel size doesn't make the display unreadable.
It's pretty common for these 'cheaters' to become promoted and get positions with higher pay and power, while people that are technically competent but are not good at self-promotion don't and have to deal with being managed by these incompetent people.
It bothers me.

But (just a guess) I hypothesize 4K comes from the film industry, while 720p and 1080[ip] come from TV and computer industries. So the two systems of measuring resolution were created independently and both have historical precedents, and the marketing mishap stems from blithely conflating the two. So I guess my explanation is: coincidence
not sarcastic at all. falling crutches were a constant source of trauma for me
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Hi Guys,

I have encountered a weird situation here. I can pass my strings in the Set-Cookie line of HTTP response headers, using a GET parameter. But still I am not able to put my own expiry date with cookie. Is it something which i can't do with request as server will be treating the whole input as cookie value. Or I am doing it in a wrong way.

Below is the response line.

Set-Cookie: xxx=yyyyyy; expires=Fri, 11-feb-2017 07:32:40; GMT path=/; expires=Fri, 26-Dec-2014 07:46:15 GMT; path=/; HttpOnly

Here, yyyyyy; expires=Fri, 11-feb-2017 07:32:40; GMT path=/ , is what I have entered using the GET parameter.

If someone has experience with this, please let me know.
assuming by "finding" you mean liking.

The api makes it very easy to use. I would like to get a generic beacon I can just slap on my door and forget about for 6 months or so, rather my current hack of using another one of my idevices to play with this.

As it is, I'll probably just get a raspi with a bluetooth le dongle, and use that (when my phone gets really close to the door, it unlocks the door, is the thought).
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Germany's Rocket Internet is doing pretty well on piggy backing. It would probably work in Japan, too.
I though the one on the mag stripe was the "CVV1", whereas "CVV" was ambiguous and could refer to either?

As far as most consumers are concerned, CVV or CVC is synonymous with CVV2, since that's what folks are asked to enter when shopping online. If you're not an engineer or work in the payment industry, you probably don't know CVV1 exists.
Seems like the most advanced node-webkit [1] application so far. Great to see how node.js is used for more and more crossplatform non-web apps. Cites Atwoods law here...

[1] https://github.com/rogerwang/node-webkit
I just found the opt-in setting on my Android (post KitKat update) about a week ago and couldn't be happier. I swear like a sailor and now my friends get to read it.
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There's an interview here which includes more detailed video of the instrument. Just be sure to toggle the subtitles. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gOrn_z9m9lU
Potentially dumb question, but will this work with a MacBook? (Like with some sort of thunderbolt adapter )
Dell might agree. 4K does not appear anywhere on that webpage.
Their "proof" was a load of crap. AZLyrics has several lyric websites for specific genres (punk, metal, and so on) which are actually really good if you're a fan of that specific genre. Of course these sites link to each other because they're a part of the same company. It isn't anything like what RG is doing.
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Considering it's part one in the series, it's not unreasonable.
Only the latest MacBooks with Haswell chips support 4k over Thunderbolt 2
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Eating right is key to overcoming stress. Make sure you take your supplements, it might sound little but from my experience, when I didn't eat right, it was easier to get stressed out. The more you are stressed out the less likely it is to eat properly and indulge in other lusts but hang in there, pain is temporary, progress is forever.
Marketing is a huge reason. "HD" laptop screens, for example, were meaningless but attached a moniker that the average consumer was familiar with ("HDTV") to a platform they are less knowledgeable about (laptops). I think the whole HD/720/1080 marketing push created stagnation within the display industry, since there was little reason to build better displays beyond 720/1080.

I am hopeful that with Retina and 4K, we'll swing back into a push for progressively better & progressively cheaper displays -- much like we had with the initial LCDs when they first started coming onto the market.
So far the only explanation I've seen is the number of syllables. "Ten-eighty pee" and "seven-twenty pee" are relatively easy to say on the radio, TV, and sales floor, but "twenty-one-sixty pee" starts to get unwieldy. Note that 2K (i.e. 1080p) has been used as a definition in the past [1], just very rarely, so it really is just the marketing of it that's changing.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=2K_resolution&act...
I can't read this article without registering with their site, or am I missing something?
I just signed up for flatdoc! Interested in the arbitrage opportunities your bitcoin site might be able to provide. :)
After playing with it, seems like Brackets (anecdotal guess, though I'm pretty confident) wrapped with a bunch of mobile device stuff ala Ripple (does intel own ripple now?) combined with a pretty deep build system.

Could be really handy for making quick apps for conferences or hi-fi prototypes imo. Particularly the cross platform build system - seems really easy.
Based on this[1] discussion, it seems like Thunderbolt 2 equipped Macs have DP1.2 and should be able to drive it at 60hz. It seems like someone with an Asus 4K screen had trouble with this in OS X (Win 8 worked).

TB1/Display Port equipped Macs will be limited to 30hz.

[1]https://discussions.apple.com/thread/5475430?tstart=0
Funny you mention Swiftkey.

I was recently setting up my daughter's cheap Android phone, when I decided to send a test Viber message to my wife. I started typing "Hello mom", and "mom" got autocorrected to a declination of "mother" which is 99% of the time used in "f-ck your mom" phrases (мамата, for compatriots).
My daughter is old enough for a smartphone, but too young for this grade of swearing; I considered it highly inappropriate, and just one more appalling thing in this first contact with Android.

Crowd-training obviously has its limits. And you should err on the side of caution in this sort of things.

(The other appalling thing was the obviously crowd-translation of the base OS, with glaring typos permeating the interface; some were occasional, but some of the most offending ones were systemic, e.g. the word Audio was wrong everywhere. You'd think between them Google, Alcatel and a mobile network operator working in half of Europe could afford to have an editor read through a few dozen thousand strings.)
16:9 has won, and will continue to be the standard for some time.

Get the Cannon 4096x2560 or the Chrome Pixel if you need something closer to square.
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Super cool. In both sound and musical capabilities, it seems like it shares a lot with the viola da gamba, especially as they both compare to modern stringed instruments; gambas, being fretted, can't achieve vibrato in the same way that modern strings can, and so depend a lot more on ornaments (trills, mordents, etc.) for emphasis. They also lack dynamic range as compared to modern strings because of their simpler bows, meaning dynamics were often achieved by adding or removing voices in ensembles. This new instrument is similar: vibrato and dynamics probably aren't easily achievable, so it seems well-suited to gamba repertoire.

No surprise, then, that in the Polish-language video linked elsewhere in the comments here, he plays a couple of M. de Sainte Colombe pieces, as he was a master gamba performer and composer.
Do you have more data or references on that? Frankly I don't believe it.
(I'm working with Alex on Sourcing.io.)

Hi Chris--I completely agree that an engineer's ability to learn is a huge part of their value. With that said, many companies are searching for engineers who are intimately familiar with particular languages or frameworks. Anyone can get comfortable with a new framework over a weekend--it takes much longer to be become an expert.

Your idea for a better Glassdoor is an interesting. In the future we're hoping to build a set of tools for engineers who are interested in getting a job--we'd like to cater to both sides of the market.

Alex and I do not want to increase the volume of recruiting spam in the world. Poorly-constructed, boilerplate emails are the mark of a bad technical recruiter--we're not building tools to help them. We want to give the great technical recruiters a tool to help them figure out if they should be sending an email to an engineer in the first place. Furthermore, we're encouraging our customers to have the C*O's and engineers construct and send the initial emails--an email from the person you'd be working with is much better than another piece of recruiting spam.

If you'd like to get in touch and chat more please feel to email on richard@sourcing.io.
No, no. The animal spirits are still there. But the structure of the economy is locked down tight. New business models that threaten to disrupt the established oligopolies are routinely killed off through the simple mechanism of outlawing them.

Still, there is room for innovation in new product categories. And technology is changing fast enough that new categories appear every few years. Take mobile gaming, for instance. And it comes as no surprise to me that the Number 1 Bitcoin exchange is Japanese. They have to deal in Bitcoins because the rest of the financial sector is locked down so tight that even Paypal can barely operate here.
I real disappointed when I discovered this was not an amateur JS vm that I could read in a weekend or two, that would be awesome to have :(
Hello, I'm working Alex on Sourcing.io. Please feel free to ask me a question here or email me at any time (richard@sourcing.io).
> That means playing GPU-taxing games on it is unfeasible for the moment.

3.6 times as many pixels as a 1920x1200 display. The difference isn't all that profound. I would think that those games should run, since they tend to target a range of graphics features such that they can run on old and new hardware. And the kicker: you shouldn't need to turn on anti-aliasing with this monitor (although I don't know how much performance that saves you, it's certainly something).
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If you're giving a domain, ask the recipient for their NameCheap username, and the authorization code from their push settings (My Account => Manage Profile => Push Settings).

Then go to My Account => Manage Domains => (click the domain) => Push Domain To User

If you're receiving a domain that's already on NameCheap (in the whois info, it'll show with Registrar "ENOM, INC" but -- further down... -- with Reseller "NAMECHEAP.COM"), you can speed things along by providing your own username and authorization code.
remember that just as marketing is essential to a successful product, promotion is important for the self.

I agree that a little self-promotion is necessary in corporate America. But I find this to be due to a flaw in American character rather than a virtue. Self-promotion in any context apart from interviews is a little unbecoming in my opinion.
Sony and Nintendo is now stagnating. So I'm not sure what innovation is anymore in Japan.

The conformism, herd and inflexibility of generations helped the downward spiral of Japan. Which is really such a shame from such a beautiful country.
Had RSI horribly for years, then learned the Dvorak keyboard layout. Now type faster, with better accuracy, and never any wrist problems. YMMV.
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>This is, well, false.

I don't think it can be called true or false that easily. Sure you can translate multiple languages into one AST representation (maybe embellished to allow round-tripping). But is it still the same language? I would say no. But I would go further and say that not even a language specific AST is the same language.

I think the idea that we can seperate programming languages from their surface syntax and still claim they are the same languages is misguided. Yes programming languages have semantics, but the user interface aspect is an inherent part of their identity because it is an inherent part of what it means for humans to use language. There is no such thing as syntactic sugar.
The challenge is not technical. The challenge is community. RapGenius is a network effects driven site, so it's utility is driven by how many people use the site. Technology is table-stakes, but branding and marketing matter much more at this point.

RapGenius grew because their user experience was much better than their competition. This was the foundation for their branding & marketing. Their growth will be sustained by their content and (once these penalties are phased out) by users' ability to discover their unique content. The technology is merely an enabler for the community-generated content. New competitors must find ways around the community's cold-start problem.

Edit: typos
It'd be nice to have less of those acronyms on HN, it's really not obvious. Maybe because i'm not a native speaker..
I can confirm it's brackets.