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you can also use Mozilla's NSPR library for cross-platform basic services and NSS for TLS.

Which coincidentally, Chrome & Chromium are based on, making the cross-library usage full circle.
Just a thought: Couldn't advertisers collaborate on maintaining a blocklist, just like users do with adblockers? Does it already exist?
In a large complex project build scripts tend to take on many tasks, and some of them will not necessarily fit into the pattern of taking in a stream of file globs, modifying them and piping them on into the next task. For example your script might manage a Git repo, deploy an app to Heroku, rsync some files somewhere, run some tests in a headless browser etc. So a build system that's optimised around streams, and one that you have to script by hand, might be very well suited for small streamlined projects but once things get varied and complex it might better be better to define your tasks via configuration instead of code, i.e. Grunt.
It may pressure consumers to decide to buy now, if they get visibility on a desirable product approaching closer to them in delivery time. Especially if they are also aware that the approaching product may be snapped up by a rival local consumer with similar tastes. Game theory applies. And this will also be gamed by customers who understand Amazon's cost and incentive economics.
Smart move though, as it can focus customer awareness into their distribution chain which is locked-in. Attention shifts from logical: ProductX() to instantiated: new ProductX(Amazon_supply_chain).
I think for many of these studies they have to go even further because it turns out that people can remember the target images and "look" at them (in their mind's eye) for longer than the allotted time, even if sandwiched between neutral frames. So the target images have to be followed by random noise images that have the same frequency statistics as the target images, which interferes with your brain's recall mechanism and prevents you from "cheating."
Recommending Chrome is a bit like recommending bionic when everyone else is enjoying (e)glibc?

The Chrome runtime has some good libraries but using that over say Qt really only makes sense if you're a (former) Chrome developer. For everyone else it's just needless pain.
The EAV problem has been mitigated with the indexes feature some years ago though.
Wow, great comment. That's the first time I've wanted to buy someone Reddit Gold on Hacker News!
C/C++ web stack is really needed for performance reasons.. good project I would say....
I swear I did the same, only with Ghostery and Facebook.
> Now, I click ads on blogs I read frequently and tools that I use and support

The rampant click fraud (abusing ads as a donation link) is another nail in the coffin for online ads, although currently Google rakes in billions from such behavior due to the advertisers' credulity.

I don't believe that Gittip and Flattr could replace it because it's much more tempting to "donate" the advertisers' money than your own. But it would be much more honest on behalf of the publishers.
Some advertisers have already moved from the force-fed ads culture inherited from TV and Radio to a model that involves, cooperate with, and rely on the viewer to spread the word (viral campaigns, Facebook, Twitter, ...). But it requires a higher level of creativity, so there's still a long way to go.
quite high expenses there.upto latest doesn't mean increase performance but can rid time wasted.not sure futured i will be like that or staff wanted bonuses then company benefit
I believe credit card fraudsters often test the cards with small charges in order to determine if the cards actually work before going on a spending spree.

Such small transactions are quite suspicious from the point of view of the credit card company.
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Ugh, I didn't realize :/ That sucks. But as the sibling poster says, Thinkpads are at least nicely upgradeable.
I think that using flags consume more time that you can save with such trick.
I'm going in the opposite direction - we're an Ubuntu shop, but I'm considering transitioning to Debian. Ubuntu is too much of a moving target, it seems, and seems to want to go its own way a little too much. It's focus is less on the server and more on the desktop and mobile, though I don't know how much that would affect future work.

One of our coders had to figure out something to fix a problem in his ubuntu desktop, and reported that he'd found a guide that showed it was done a different way in each of the four previous releases. I think they're doing fine for their original target audience - naive users - but I'm cautious about their constant change and go-it-aloneness.
I have a T540p at work, and the lack of touchpad buttons means you need an incredible amount of care when clicking. I don't really mind the keyboard, but that thing is torture without a mouse.
A perennial topic. See http://news.aces.illinois.edu/news/if-you-drop-it-should-you... , which won the 2004 Ig Nobel Prize in public health.

Jillian Clarke's full report referenced a similar rule from the time of Genghis Khan. (I think it was a 24 hour rule for meat.)

It was explored more by a Clemson project http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17381737 .

This work from Manchester Metropolitan University is mentioned at http://www.staff.mmu.ac.uk/manmetlife/news/view/food-researc... but I can't find the actual research.

("Technician Kathy Lees was commissioned by cleaning manufacturers Vileda to research how safe it is to eat food which has been dropped on the floor. She tested five food items for 3, 5, and 10 seconds - cooked pasta, ham, a plain biscuit, drief fruit and bread and jam - and discovered that the higher the salt of sugar content the less chance of the survival of any harmful bacteria.")
"...and installing NetworkManager which screws up my network settings as soon as I plug in the Ethernet cable while I'm still on my wireless."

Any bug numbers? I'm not seeing that on Debian Wheezy or CentOS.

But I have just ordered a CD set to try this OpenBSD to see what all the fuss is about and to learn something.
This way I can say that Java supports OO inheritance and can emulate prototypal inheritance (this can be done in C# and I suspect in latest Java). I think the correct statement is that "JavaScript supports a simple OOP model".
If you haven't seen the "think-light" yet -- FN-PgUp. Bottom Left and Top Right buttons activate the light -- makes it easier to find in the dark.

http://blog.lenovo.com/design/fn-versus-ctrl-let-the-games-b...
Our website has ads too, but I fully support everyone who wants to block them. They add no value to the website and I'm only interested in people using our site, not in getting them distracted or annoyed. We even have an ad-free version of our main website (but it's not indexed by search engines).

I've also learned that people working at ad agencies as well as those handling ads on the publisher side tend to be extremely incompetent w.r.t. web publishing. They do not understand how usability, reputation, visitor/customer satisfaction work. They tend to believe that looking at ads is the most important thing people visit websites for (and possibly that people make road trips just in order to look at the billboards).
Not on debian, where 'node' is used by something else.
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I have exactly the same problem when switching between Apple's current two keyboards: the USB model with numerical keypad, and the smaller, 50% more expensive wireless model. I use CTRL enough that trying to use both is an exercise in futility. Why can't Apple release a 'proper', full-size wireless keyboard?
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> each team is essentially autonomous, and they pick the tools they wish to use.

This will lead to a maintenance problem shortly. I worked in similar environments. Technically clueless managers think that they only have to throw requirements over the wall and let the developers figure out how to implement them. When someone leaves the team the replacement needs to become acquainted with totally unfamiliar code, libraries and tools.
I really don't understand why a company under cash constraints that's doing digital work would have a physical office anyway. Consider it as a perk - how many thousands of dollars a month do people spend on office space? Would the employees be happier taking that money as salary and working remotely? I'd bet so.
Quite old page but still interesting
More so; Scientific papers have structure - reading them linearly from beginning to end, just that you skip the end, may not tell you anything about what the authors propose.

The beginning (like the introduction and method stuff) generally is a build-up where you connect the contribution with the contemporary knowledge, but it is only in the final discussion and conclusion parts that you will find the argumentation.

Picture yourself reading a Hercule Poirot story by Agatha Christie, but stop reading just as Hercule summons all the participants into the living room to wrap up the story. Would you then criticise Christie for writing a bad story :) Of course, the story could be bad with weak character narratives and a lousy plot, but would you not want to know whether the butler really did it before giving up?
There's a whole story to this, but that is a little too private to share on the web :)

The larger story is, that lenses can damage the eye (tiny scratches, little infections); regardless of Diabetes. Diabetics have increased risk of badly healing damage, especially wrt fragile nerves (toes, eyes, hearing). The increased risk that anyone has for infections and problems when wearing lenses, is only so more dangerous to Diabetics.
I know that PG himself has said himself that people they know have an advantage. In fact, that was a major reason to start Hacker News - so they'd be able to recognise people who often leave great comments.
The funny thing is they stopped at 13 ms because of the refresh rate of their screens couldn't go any faster.
> Unless an extremely specific concrete answer can be given, a question immediately gets killed

Isn't that pretty much SO's explicit goal from day one? Complaining about SO not being a site for open discussion is like complaining that HN doesn't cover celebrity gossip.
> are you legitimately stating that you wouldn't want any of these perks free of charge?

I'd much rather have the money in lieu. It's not 'free of charge' since it's still costing the company.
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"It's like I go out of my way to not do the work I'm supposed to do."
Well, that's exactly what you do and it helps thinking about why you avoid doing some coding. Sometimes this behaviour comes from thinking that you have to be in the right mood to start working, but the truth is, motivation comes while doing stuff, not before you start.

Another reason could be that you are afraid that the task is overwhelming, that you don't understand it, etc.

Try dividing whatever you want to do into tiny steps that don't take more than 15 minutes and tick them off in a list after finishing them.
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> Why must the answers on SO be bland as tofu?

Why do we have vegetarian restaurants when the majority of the world wants meat?
This reminded me of Ayumu the chimp [1]. The difference between being able to perceive the overall image like a zebra, and the specific details like the position of nine numbers seems interesting to me.

[1]: http://www.bbc.co.uk/nature/16832379
You won't go wrong with a Cherry keyboard, German quality, same keyswitches that were used on the perfect machine, the BBC Micro.
I suggest funding a solar power system, especially since the newer panels are even more efficient for a lower net cost-per-watt/kWH ratio.

Even on cloudy days the new panels will produce energy.

The panels are usually warranted to produce at least a certain (80% on mine) percentage for a set period of time. (25 years on my 5 + year old PV arrays) so the other considerations would be a charge controller/charger, a voltage inverter (from DC to AC) cabling and batteries for storage.

Of all the items, the batteries will be the main recurring expense as they generally don't last as long as the PV panels. Depending on type of battery, and how heavily cycled they are, batteries can last for 10 years, with proper care and use.

A system which maintains a constantly higher amperage will last longer than a system that has been allowed to be exceedingly discharged. (no less than 80% of capacity)

In my area electricity sells for $0.49USD per KWH ergo solar is the logical solution.

The end result is a self reliant system, independent of the issues associated with distributed power sources, while increasing responsibility for the consumer.

I find the cost/benefit ratio to be in favor of under-funded consumers, especially in the long term.
Just a side note - I do know a lot of people that love to go to Times Square at night to be bathed in the bright but artificial light of the billboards.
While you're right, don't be such a grump. It's cool that some business try and stay involved in this :)
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You're right. I wish there was a more automated way(without pushing that button) to remove the clutter in sites that need this kind of filtering.
What 'yrro said, seems node is something up relying on inetd, apparently! No big, I fixed it anyway, but might send a PR to the project to handle Debian derivatives better.
Ha, what a coincidence.

It won't work for decimal 10s complement numbers:

For x=10 we get

1 + 10 + 100 + 1000 + 10000 + ... = -1/9

And -1 in a decimal computer is

9 + 90 + 900 + 9000 + 90000 + …

so … OMG!

9*(1 + 10 + 100 + 1000 + 10000 + ...) = 9*(-1/9) = -1
We are based in Lille, a close stop from London (90min), Brussels (30min) and Paris (50min).

All the talks are in English and we will have a great selection of Belgian beers :-) (and alcohol free beverages).

More information : https://github.com/robink/take-off-conf-convince-your-boss/b...
An API for printers and their cartridges. Please share your thoughts
Ad blockers are going to gradually become irrelevant (like pop-up blockers) primarily because of the mobile web.

I believe the adoption of the mobile web is forcing advertisers to reconsider their strategies. With the limited screen real-estate and cut-throat competition for those pixels it becomes difficult for the marketers to go overboard.
Going from FB to diaspora&Co. - Swapping an insecure service for a swiss cheese?
Look at Racket (was Dr Scheme) and use the dialect R5RS

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/939582/which-language-in-...
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https://opensource.conformal.com/wiki/adsuck

All that crap doesn't reach my browser.
Is a distributed and fully encrypted social networking service feasible at all?
My father bought a Lenovo Thinkpad last week. One evening we were installing and configuring some more things on the laptop, and at some point he mentions that it's annoying that the keyboard has no printscreen button which he had needed that day.

This was the first thing I noticed when the laptop arrived, so I pointed out to him that the PrtScn button is between AltGr and the right ctrl key. We both shook our heads at that.

Nice try at keyboard innovation, Lenovo.
My resume is good, I got lots of call from recruiters, but I need an H1B sponsor
As a PHP/Javascript/Objective-c developer, I think I have a good resume, because after put my resume in some jobboards (like monster, indeed, linkedin), everyday I got a call from some recruiter. The history is, I'm currently in the US (for few months) and I'm looking for an H1B sponsor. When the recruiters call the are very excited to tell me about the opportunity, but when I say that I need a h1b sponsor, they get discouraged. What should I do??
(note: I'm a good developer, but in my country, my job pays me like U$30k/y, and this is a good salary there)
"Being nice to stupid people is as much of a skill as hacking up some kernel code."

I'd rephrase that as 'finding simple tasks peripheral to the main effort that would allow non-expert people to contribute time to the project without detracting from the main work'.
this happens all the time in the UK. big accounting firms and F100 companies recruit people in unrelated degrees all the time.
When I was in the process of creating a similar service specially for students I did a lot of research into their freemium model....The findings were pretty clear: the most reliable source puts their conversion at around 4% and and with approximations on growth and a heavily reduced s3 cost there is a point where it stops working - they need to boost their revenue sources.

I have all the projections on my pc, feel free to contact me if you would like to see them.
Ads done 'the best way' are unlikely to fall foul of ad blockers, no script, etc. Deliver your ads from the same domain, as static content, and you're likely to be fine. Bonus points for not slowing down the browsing experience, and altering the layout at random intervals for about a minute after page load (see theguardian.com)
> - You realise that you are not sure how to deploy this on production.

My advice for this is don't worry about it. Just hand install on a cheap shared web hosting place and manually copy stuff across to get it up and running.

When that gets too annoying, start automating. When your home grown automation scripts get long and unwieldy, look into Capistrano or Puppet (or Chef, or Ansible). The important thing is: make it work first, then make it beautiful.

> - You realise that you will need a business model and you are just a developer/designer and have no idea about those.

I feel you there! :-) Having an idea and trying to think of how to get someone to pay for it is daunting to me. I feel like a blank canvas and I have no idea where to start.

> - Then comes the tax issues, and realisation that you need a company.

Again, don't worry about it. If you make so much money that it matters—well, that is a good problem to have. You can always incorporate (or whatever) later. And if you're pulling in a lot of money you can afford a lawyer to just handle it all for you.

- You don't know how to licence your idea/project

If you're making a web site or a app store app (binary distribution) then again, it doesn't really matter. If it becomes so wildly popular that people start abusing it somehow, and in quantities that matter—again, that's a nice problem to have (compared to no one using your site or app).

If you're releasing source, then pick MIT, BSD, or GPL (just choose randomly if you have no opinion). If the one you picked turns out to have side effects that you didn't foresee, then feel free to change it–it's your code after all, so you can do what you want (though if you get a whole bunch of external contributors, it gets hairier).

One thing I've found that really really helps—get a partner. Having another person around (and not necessarily physically) is a great way to help keep you from getting distracted. This is why companies get stuff done—there's always someone around working and you can't just slack off without losing face to everyone around you. It's really hard to sit around and read reddit all day when the 3 people in the room with you are all working hard…
I've got my doubts on a whole lot of psychiatric disorder diagnostics. That said: I really hate any sort of intrusive distractions. Nothing but nothing but nothing will convince me to kill a browser tab faster than that kind of crap.
> Ha, what a coincidence.

> It won't work for decimal 10s complement numbers:

I don't get why you say this -- you go on to demonstrate the opposite?

This is just the other-side-of-the-decimal-point inverse of the well known 0.9999999... = 1 equality.

One of my favorite proofs for 0.9999... being equal to 1 goes like so: imagine subtracting it from 1. You'll get a number which has a 0 at every decimal place: 0.0000000.... Obviously, the number with a 0 in every decimal place is 0 itself.

Similarly, if you have your integer represented decimally as a bunch of coefficients (0 <= c < 10) of powers of 10, and all of the coefficients are 9, it's fairly straightforward to see that adding 1 will get you a new number for which all of the coefficients are 0. Since adding 1 to the original number gave us 0, we can treat the original number as -1.
In general great effort is made to ensure that probes don't contain any biological contaminates so if we do discover signs of life we're very certain it wasn't a microbe that hitched a ride.

As far as contamination from drilling (due to lubricants or something else entirely) I imagine that the desire for general cleanliness is for much the same reason. If we're going to spend hundreds of millions of billions of dollars on a probe to another world we want to be really confident anything interesting we find is actually from that world and not Earth.
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Maybe people would be happy (well, happier) with extreme micropayments. The use case you describe should be a rounding error as far as my bank account is concerned, but enough when multiplied by reasonable traffic to sustain online publishing.

Does anyone know the actual value of a single ad impression?
...what? I had win.com in autoexec.bat
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> The Linux kernel is an impressively complicated, and robust piece of software and they get along just fine without exceptions.

The amount of error-unwinding goto spaghetti, ERR_CAST/IS_ERR/PTR_ERR/... and all the bugs coming from it is not "just fine".
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You can try to contact the heads of the SOFT group at the Free University of Brussels, they might give you a heap of good arguments and or documents. Thanks to them (and some others), our university still uses SICP as the main course in the first year of the CS education.

http://soft.vub.ac.be/
I use KeyRemap4MacBook[1] to map the enter/return key to control,
but only if held down. If you tap it, it's still return. Sounds
weird but it works really well, it's a large target, and it roughly
mirrors caps lock as control on the left hand.

[1] http://pqrs.org/macosx/keyremap4macbook/index.html
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Those are both sub-problems.
Why do meat eaters have such a desire to disparage vegetarians in completely irrelevant contexts?
G. Hardy had a hard time understanding it, and Ramanujan apparently knew it[1]. I'm not a mathematician, but if Hardy had a hard time understanding this at first glance, I don't think anyone should be ashamed for not knowing that the same of all numbers is -(1/12)

[1] http://books.google.cz/books?id=Of5G0r6DQiEC&pg=PA53&dq=grat...
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Without ad blockers I would be back to using gopher and usenet.
Psychologists-nigger finds an article and posts it.

Fucken walks up to Stephen Hawking and hands him a story on Intel chips and says, "Moore's law means computers will be faster than light."

Shat-up nigger-bitch. Do you not know you are way out of your league?