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I started with zx-spectrum and was also very happy with whatever was there :) But baby steps towards moving pictures that are indistinguishable from reality.. Eh, I'm just very picky. Ever noticed that the top side of a moving window moves before the bottom side on most LCD displays?
Sorry, I implied that the man will sue Google, and they will settle out of court.
Does anyone know more about the Equality of Opportunity project? I'm trying to navigate their site to figure out the methodology for determining their numbers.

At this point, I'm not willing to believe that all of the cities with the highest rents also have the highest upward mobility. I'm assuming that they just found the places where the upwardly mobile either 1. moved to or 2. grew up in during the cities' transitions into rich cities from struggling cities (an awful lot of cities went through that transition in the last 50 years.)

That would still be interesting stat, but say nothing about the chances for someone moving into the city now, who would be faced with crippling rents and 3 applicants for every open position.

I think people are moving away from unlivable cites to livable cities, and that there's lots of reverse migration to get closer to extended families. I'm considering the same.

edit: I still can't figure it out, this is the closest I could find - http://www.equality-of-opportunity.org/index.php/faq-s. I'll email to find out if they accounted for migration.
I use usps when I ship amazon orders, and would have contacted the postal inspectors about felony mail fraud.
Are American politics any different, when "liberating" Iraq?
I was trying to find a nice way to say this; people seem to not focus very much if you notice things like that. I have had Indian/Vietnamees people eat stuff next to me (which is very high in aroma) and in the Netherlands there is quite a bit of fish eating; I have never noticed anything as i'm , you know, focusing on what i'm doing? Hell, I often work next to a TV or console gaming and that really doesn't do anything. Never had colleagues bothered by this either.

I notice that people who complain about sounds and odours are often people who don't have very much to do, at least not with a looming deadline. It's like when you live in a neighbourhood with attached housing; there are always a few who complain about everything they hear and see and they actually do listen to people flushing toilets and accidentally dropping chairs.
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I would expect that nearly any supporter of the GPL would also support a change to the law that eliminated copyright restrictions on the use of code.

WTF?!? No way! (although to be fair I'm not exactly sure what you mean by "use of code").

Companies would still be free to "protect" their code through secrecy: releasing only the compiled version and not the source code

This is exactly what the GPL is designed to avoid.

As you quoted above "the freedom to change the software to suit your needs" - that requires the source code!
Gotcha, thanks.

Is there a possibility that overlapping DFT windows could get you increased accuracy? I mean, instead of looking at each 0.3s individually, you could look at 0.3s segments, starting each segment 0.1s after the previous segment started so that there is some overlap.
What do you mean by "ate too much of the wrong thing"?
I could make $KILLERAPP and charge $1000 for it, and not allow it to be public, but as long as when a customer buys it, I give them access to the source, I'm still GPL compliant.

No you wouldn't. The GPL doesn't allow you to restrict the end user's ability to redistribute it. That "not allow it to be public" clause violates that.
the broadcasters says "Aereo retransmits". If Aereo were doing retransmission, even using individual antenna per customer, it would still be a public performance (Zediva case comes to mind here), and thus broadcasters would have a case. If Aereo only rents the antenna to customer, it is the customer who is doing broadcast capture and retransmission using the rented equipment - seems to be a well established legal activity (i'm wondering why such an argument didn't work for Zediva, though i don't think they "rented" DVD player to customer, only DVD itself - they were arguing that they can do anything like Netflix or Blockbuster, only by way of online streaming instead of physical transfer of the DVD, so it seems they didn't argue that it is customer who plays and streams rented DVD on rented equipment).
Jesus that's bad. Like, I've seen terrible comments, but that really takes the (racist, bigoted) cake.
Lunch and dinner breaks are my most treasured time periods on many days. Whenever I remember the good old times at university, I think of my walks outside the library - and along the seashore - while taking a rest from studying to eat dinner.
That's exactly what I think. The overpaid upper middle class are forcing out the poor. Most of them don't mind because of their extraordinary egos and beliefs in eugenics and social Darwinism that they're not introspective enough to recognize as such.
I like the idea and might sell stuff, but am reluctant to buy used electronics except from known entities, particularly for items like cellphones.

Carrier and Apple blocks for stolen items can make your purchase worthless. I wish Apple could implement a "safe transfer" process for items, using your Apple ID, to verify the seller is legitimate and transfer title irrevocably to the buyer.

I met one of the Apple security guys at 30c3 and this kind of thing seems to fit with how they view customers , too.

Third party sale sites should be allowed to participate, especially as innovation like fobo wouldn't come freon a big company, but the transfer of "title" really needs to be solved by phone manufacturers and/or carriers.
It's always nice to find a fellow documentary watcher, and here in hacker news, just proves to me that there's no better way to end an hard day, than to watch a nice documentary in bed.

Everything is soothing in a documentary to watch in bed, soothing voice of the narrator, and the interesting facts that are brought to threw the screen.

Of course that it's not the best way to learn. but after an hard day, there is no better way.

thanks for sharing the list ... :D
I should add that browsing Wikipedia while eating lunch has made me a nutrition expert, to the surprise of many people. Eating lunch at the desk can also have its advantages.
This is very interesting, thanks for taking the time to compile it all.

What I'm wondering now is whether you plan on open-sourcing the technology built so people can potentially plug it into their own storage providers and take up the cost of storage, or adapt the photo analysis tech. You've built a wonderful base here, will it be put to some use?
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We got over it, moved on and built things.
It does not happen when driving over a hill. There are two different levelling functions. What you describe is the "homing" procedure for the stepper motors (typically) that do the levelling.

Static levelling is mandatory for HID headlamps, and that adjusts the headlamp level according to load, etc, for example based on suspension level sensors. As the name says, it is static, so it doesn't do anything while the vehicle is moving.

Dynamic levelling compensates for driver braking and acceleration, but I have not seen a production system that works for hills (how could it without information about where the crest is?). Typically, the systems work to ONLY react to the driver doing something, not road features like speed bumps or inclines.

Neither levelling procedure works to actively reduce glare for other drivers when in turns or going over a hill.
I'm curious, does he have a family? Although I like the idea of moving somewhere cheap, persuading my family that this is a good idea is quite impossible :)
No. I was listing documentaries which aren't included on the list posted. I've edited my comment to clarify that point.

Connections (the first series) was absolutely brilliant, as was TDTUC. I've been less enamored of Connections2 -- the 22 minute format is too brief, the episodes rushed and a little too topical, and a lot of material re-treaded. I haven't watched C3 yet, but note that it returns to the 55 minutes of the original series.

I've become increasingly fascinated by the Industrial Revolution and the changes both leading up to and emerging from it. Vernor Vinge and Ray Kurzweil are trying to tell us that there's a Singularity in our future. I feel it was in our past (and that they're pitching snake oil). The change in the human condition from 1780 to 1980 simply staggers the mind. I'd argue that much of it completed by the 1930s, and that there's been fairly modest change since (mostly in information and communications).

I don't think the world of 2013 is hugely different from that of 1963. But 1963 was worlds apart from 1913.
This was on an article about one of Silicon Valley's particular problems with diversity being that it thought it was more meritocratic than it actually was.

Given that context pg then goes on to use math as a rhetoric device to illustrate an inherently perfect meritocracy and then states SV is nearly as good; hence 'near perfect'.
A good list, at least based on the first three (which I've seen and/or heard a great deal about).
Yes, which is why I can't figure out how to interpret that case. It seems the judge says you can't ask any questions, since any information has some value.

A police officer can ask questions of anyone, including "can I search this bag?" The legal theory is that an officer is also a citizen, and any citizen can ask that question, even of strangers.

Apparently the uniform and knowledge that it's a police officer isn't supposed to make people feel any extra obligation towards the officer, compared to a stranger.

But there has to be a limit to that, yes? Can the officer for money? Strangers do that.

Anyway, were I to judge this matter, I would say that if a person would reasonably give the same answer to a stranger as to an imposter, then there's nothing of value.

Yeah, and I'm sure as Sunday that most judges won't agree with me.
Yeah, it's way easier to stand together when the members of a group just don't use their brain that much and don't doubt even the most stupid beliefs (e.g. Jesus was a white man) but here we doubt everything, and skepticism is good on an individual level but it's the worst social glue for a group.
They probably left a backdoor in there, or perhaps put up still-insecure software when restoring from the last hack. That'd be my guess, anyway.
I too love documentaries and used to love Discovery Channel before they turned into the disgrace they are now.

However, it's a really showstopper for me when a documentary is dated and with the subjects that I find interesting ( tech, economy) documentaries are dated pretty fast.

Watching anything on these subjects more than 1 year old is like whaching a documentary on ancient history.
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This is something that is gravely needed. It could solve a lot of problem on the current landscape - like steam on linux backwards compatibility for windows catalog.
Thanks, enjoyed game #3.

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Also, the subreddit /r/ethereum is modded by and features a welcome post by "vbuterin".
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I have to say, I agree wholeheartedly with all 15 of those reasons. We've been using Grails and Groovy extensively (almost exclusively) at Fogbeam Labs for about 3 years now, and I am very happy with how that decision has worked out. I won't say I couldn't be happier, because, as they say, "you don't know what you don't know". But Grails has easily lived up to, and/or exceeded, all of my expectations.
I've been puzzling over Ruppert for quite some time.

I think his history's pretty solid. His projections are where things start to fall apart, and in several of his predictions he's clearly jumped the gun (but then: prediction is hard, especially about the future). He's in pretty good company there. My own sense is that a collapse is likely to take rather longer, though it's also likely to be highly nonlinear -- things can limp along for a quite a while before suddenly falling to pieces.

And while not inevitable, I fail to see how a highly complex technological civilization predicated on massive energy flows and high levels of stability can survive the curtailment of both. I also suspect 2007 was a lot dicier than many people realize.
It's not just you, lights on most cars are just too damn bright and severely affect other drivers' night vision. I have no idea why they are considered "safe."

However, BMW's new ultra bright lights will surely fail to gain traction, because BMW tends to attract a class of ultra-considerate driver that puts the safety of other drivers first and foremost, and surely BMW drivers would never stand for something like this.
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My friend thinks your friend is a bit of a coward.
Haha, I see that you are still posting links to that scalzi crap.
Playing a touch of devils advocate here.

I'm not really sure what 'scale' means in this context. I think a more realistic way to phrase it is "once I code something it's yours....and doesn't need to be done again". In short, you have a static snapshot of something that you can do whatever you want with.If it can be used to 'scale' your business then that's fine. In contrast a Janitor will always be needed to do the same tasks in a perpetual motion.Same with field workers etc. As to why one gets paid more than the other....I still don't know. :)

If you want to scale a fruit distribution business you will need to 'scale' fruit pickers just like a tech company would need coders. So I am still confused.

I suppose the assumption is that 1 coder can get your business further than 20 fruit pickers or janitors.

But...

You could replace many coders the same way you can replace janitors via Odesk, Elance etc. I know I'm making a broad stroke with that statement but I'm being contrarian intentionally.

As far as the CEO comment it makes sense but not because he's a CEO. It makes sense because of a broader social and psychological issue. He can do something that others can't albeit within a certain cultural context. This makes him valuable.
Actually, Symfony seems like some kids went to basic OO design courses and took everything there seriously. It also causes the end product to be measurably the slowest in the world. http://www.techempower.com/benchmarks/

I think this is the worst symptom: Sure, you can write snappy code that performs fast but when you try to reach a higher abstraction level, all those fundamental design failures catch up and make everything awkward and just bad.
How is that "trying to pick a fight"?
Two wrongs don't make a right. And what does America have to do with this anyway? The protagonaists were British and Japanese.
We probably would've had them now if display tech didn't stop progressing in 1999....
It never was a singular event. In the late Bronze Age there was a darker age. Complex social structures collapsed, technologies forgotten for eight centuries and the population to some regions reduced to 1/9 of its former size.
The word never is seldom (but not quite 'never') advised, and shines brightly as a warning sign. It appears far too often among these shallow lifehack type articles.

In this case someone realized that that they have options about where to eat. While this may seem a tad cynical, in a week they will be back at their desk.
The BBC has the long running tv documentaries "Horizon". Some of these are excellent.

I would really like to see the BBC making use of this archive material by re-running old episodes, perhaps with discussion from the scientists involved before hand talking about advances since the programme was made or where they went right / wrong.

Or perhaps the BBC could have a topic and collate clips from all the previous episodes to show how acience has tackled that topic over the years.

There's. Brilliant radio programme called "The Reunion" which does something similar for news and current affairs.

Here's their episode about Dolly the Sheep. http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01mhsdw

Here's their episode about the centre for alternative technology http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01s393k

The format works well for the political stuff because the presenter (Sue MacGregor) is a respected journalist and was working at the time, and distance from events means people explain and explore without being so invested in a political position.
Go try it now. Connect your laptop to your tv, set the refresh rate to 30hz. Your mouse will become extremely "laggy" (e.g. unresponsive), all 60fps animations like dragging windows around, scrolling will become stuttered, etc.

Just the productivity decrease alone makes this monitor extremely expensive in the end, despite its price.
There's only so much CEOs on te market with proven track record and obviously companies prefer them over unknowns. Also, for CEOs, even a small difference in skill/experience can translate to huge changes in financial results (via better decisions which affect the whole company)

The janitor's situation is exactly the opposite. Virtually anyone can do janitor's job and also skill/experience differences don't translate to company's higher profits. Hence, the pay for janitors sucks.

Programmers are somewhere between CEOs and janitors both in term of supply and impact on profit.
http://uk.answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=2010061011011...
My point was that most countries' politicians will support their atrocities, and that it's not a phenomenon specific to the Japanese.
The Ascent of Man is amazing. It's old, somewhat outdated, very slow... but amazing. I rewatch it at least once a year.
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After a period of malnutrition, you need to start taking small amounts of relatively low-calorie food and building up from there. It is a well-known phenomenon that eating too much calorie-packed food can be fatal. In his book The Forgotten Highlander, Alistair Urquhart records the same thing happening on the ship which transported former POWs home.
> I hate how the line between the good guys and the bad guys is so blurred I sometimes question if it exists at all.

What? You still believe in Hollywood-style good guys and bad guys? Do you think that the Japanese believed then that they were the bad guys?

I am very surprised to see the good guy/bad guy mistake here. Everyone thinks they are the good guy, because everyone has reasons for what they do, otherwise they wouldn't do it. Even the nazis were exterminating Jews for the good of their country, or so they told themselves.
Oh wow, that is tragic. I was aware that, after being starved, you shouldn't gorge yourself, but I didn't know you could die from eating even normal portions... Thank you.
So what do you interview as now?
> Sounds horrible.

Reminder: It's been around 1800 days since Sean Hannity insisted that water-boarding wasn't torture and promised to be water-boarded for charity.

https://encrypted.google.com/webhp#q=sean+hannity+waterboard...
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Sounds about right. My experience with Amazon's hiring process was that it was extremely flaky, which surprised me because it was nothing like my great experiences with Amazon as a customer.

Did well on the phone interview, got an email the next day saying they'd like to schedule an in-person interview. Emailed them right back with my schedule, radio silence for two weeks. No response to further emails or phone calls from me.

By the time they got back to me two weeks later with an interview date, I had two offers from other companies that I interviewed with in the interim. Ended up having to cancel the Amazon interview.

There are some companies that have this process WIRED. Hiring managers respond immediately to any email and actively work to find the right place for good candidates, an offer gets made a day or two after the interview, or they tell you they're not interested. It's very difficult to not want to work there when you see that.

Friendly advice to entrepreneurs: don't be the Amazon in this story. There are some really good people I know that are turned off to working there from similar experiences.
I think it's the best way to go, but also for a resilience approach, I want to be able to ditch a datacenter in 15min. If you can ditch the datacenter, why not ditch the whole provider?
So we tried to keep the deployment scripts ready for a competitor at all times, having backups we could restore there etc. And if you grow big enough, this becomes a bargaining chip with your provider too: I can ditch you in 15 min.
It's not a term that needs replacing. Shorthand personality bins are not a void that needs to be filled. Classifying the speaker (whether with 'emo' or 'hipster' or 'feminazi' or 'homophobe' or 'fag' or 'geek' or 'jock' or ...) does nothing to elucidate the argument.

You do not need to classify the speaker. Your arguments are stronger if you do not classify the speaker. Classifying the speaker leads one to interpret an argument through one's preconception of that class of speaker, weakening one's listening and interpretation skills.

And, classifying a speaker aloud often leads your audience to classify you in an opposing class. Use "white knight" and many will classify you as a "bro". Use "homophobe" and get classified as gay or a militant feminist. Use "gay" and get classified as a homophobe. That leads to your audience interpreting your argument through their preconceptions of your classification.

In other words, classifying the speaker endangers your critical thinking, endangers your chances of being understood, and has no upsides.
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Thanks cangelis! It's not really clear (or I'm a lousy reader) wether it displays the information while the call is incoming or only when you've picked up (or missed) the call. If it's the former, I'm glad to hear that it's possible for iOS too!
It is good to see tech people compensated like C level executives.
Extraordinary story. This reminds me somewhat of a 1955 reunion[1] of Paul Tibbets, the pilot of the Enola Gay, and a survivor of the Hiroshima bomb in an episode of "This is your life". I can't say the whole show is tasteful but I found the meeting incredibly emotional to watch.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l0m8D6APp64
Yes, the world will shudder from this hack on an unrelated subdomain of a prestigious private university! The day we fight back has finally come!

Please
Supply and demand. There are more people who can work as a janitor than demanded, therefore a lower salary. There are less people than demanded for CEOs, therefore a higher salary.
Server seems to be buckling under the load, but archive.org has a copy: https://web.archive.org/web/20131027021454/http://www.abroad...
That may explain the deer in the headlights phenomenon, if real. They could be waiting for their eyes to readjust. Agree that this feature would be undesirable for pedestrians (and cyclists, if also targeted). And I suspect the spotlight is unlikely to avert any more than a small number of accidents. However, it seems quite a strong sales feature for BMW - enhancing the driver/owner's sense of control.