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> Using the term "scripting language" to describe things like Python and Ruby fell out of favour quite a few years ago.

Which is unfortunate, because now we dance through phrases like "things like Python and Ruby". There is a hard-to-precisely-define category here, and it's useful to have a name for it--even if the name is flawed.

And, in my opinion, it's usually better to hang on to an old name as it becomes less and less literally true than to continually fish about for a new name. ("Dynamic language" is popular now, but what happens when someone popularizes such a language with static typing?) As an analogy, consider "touchdown" in American football. You haven't had to touch the ball down to score in my lifetime, or even in my parents lifetimes, but we still call it a "touchdown" and not a "planebreaker".
https://www.blackphone.ch/hello-world/

I'm sure there's logic there - powering a very basic non-informative landing site with a WP installation that you took the time to customize, but not delete the default post and comment from...

But it certainly doesn't give me warm fuzzy feelings about the people behind this.
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The alternatives are either running your own service or switching to a dropbox competitor.

Even at huge companies with resources dedicated towards IT infrastructure, systems still go down with regularity. Dropbox is probably still more reliable than what many large companies use.
"schvitzing"?

There are certain stylistic choices a writer can make that labels him as an instant idiot in my world. I chose not to read that link in full due to the word chosen here.
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I rarely use join and it never occurred to me. For combining the one file that had records spanning several lines, I used awk instead of grep -A as the hints suggest. Where the hints suggest a head/tail combination, I used sed. I also used sort piped to uniq in one case; combinations of those two are very often useful.
This also relates to the loss of weight [1] of the "125-year-old platinum-and-iridium cylinder" defining the kilogram.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6617039
All I can say is "Wow".

Out here in the flyover states, complaining about Frontier's terrible service is right up there with deer hunting and watching old episodes of "Hee Haw".

Now we see AT&T and Verizon are doing even worse than Frontier and somehow a cable provider is getting flattened by DSL. What's up?
Very nice, however unless all the hardware and software are open sourced. I will not use it in my real life.
|Over the years they've sold virtual machines, mail accounts, backup storage, computer cycles, smartphones, entertainment units, laptops, smart glasses, and eventually self-driving car technology and robotics.

All of these account for less than 3% of Google's Revenue, many probably operate at a loss. What this article is saying is that Google is finally putting together a SERIOUS challenger to their Ad revenue business in the form of consumer devices. The diverse products you listed were more about Google swimming in money, being open to new ideas, and having lots of clever and creative people.
I think there is a fundamental difference you're missing between the experiences you're describing and that of online dating: it's not so much about the amount of noise and more about the signal-to-noise ratio, as well as the overwhelmingsness of the situation that the author argues makes dating websites (not life in general!) a difficult experience.

On a dating website, messages are the only signal available to the receiver. This means the person had to go through a lot of noise (or as the article says, "wade through a mountain of shit") to find out if anyone interesting to them messaged them. If on top of that these messages are as numerous and off-putting as the person in the article says, then it's easy to see the online dating experience can become rapidly unpleasant. Furthermore, this is a problem because finding matches is the only function of a dating website!

Now, back to your example. The thing is that not only do you hopefully get utility from socializing at a bar beyond being able to find sexual partners and you're presumably not constantly in such a situation (which already makes your analogy miss the point), but you have many other signals at your disposal: you can simply visually identify those who are more attractive to you in the room and physically make your way through them, and even though, as you said, you can get cockblocked at times, this is still an option that's not available to people on dating websites.
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Personally, if I were really worried about privacy I would use burners or get a lineman's handset. It seems like a smart device that you use all the time is going to have the same problems.

So, yeah you can encrypt the voice channel. That's great. You can send encrypted text messages. The people involved are serious cryptographers. All of it sounds good.

You have to ask your self though, what is it you are trying to do? Who is your adversary? Other people here have mentioned it, but what about apps on the phone? Facebook is still Facebook.
Yeah, what happens if you put a window halfway between two displays in Windows? On OS X, the window goes non-retina on both.
I've personally never found Dropbox to be what I want in a file-sharing device.

Ultimately, I think its really a shame that the OS vendors haven't made 'cloud-based auto-discovery and user-control over publication' a major feature of their OS. The reason we need/want/love Dropbox is simply that the mainstream OS vendors dropped the ball, imho, and got lured away into Web2.0 land when they should simply have been adding these features - a distributed, cloud-based networked filesystem - directly to the OS. Why do I need another custom extension for this, from an unknown startup, when it could as easily be implemented as an OS feature? I think the reason is, the vendors are asleep at the wheel.

I've enjoyed the process of setting up my own cloud services for things like filesharing, using whatever tools I can .. but I sure wish it were just something to 'turn on' in OSX or Ubuntu, or whatever .. without requiring a third-party involvement (Ubuntu One or iCloud = no thanks!).

So I see Dropbox's future as being pretty cloudy, personally. I think the repercussions for American cloud providers, especially, are coming .. the desire for a private cloud is a big itch.
FYI, check out

http://openrtms.org

for more open source alternative for this. Many of these products are nothing innovating in technology.

However, I do think the maker should be rewarded for design, packing (meaning putting everything together).
I guess you didn't read what he wrote.

He is not complaining about the windows being to wide, he is complaining about the scaling that Windows 8 applies when it detects a High DPI screen, that makes every element inside a window either too large or too small, or sometimes both, breaking the original design and fluidity of the application and rendering it unusable.

And your point about Apple users..well, I don't know what was your point about Apple users.
Bulldozer's cores are closer to full cores than hyperthreads, especially in workloads that don't use floating point operations, like the compilations you mentioned.
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" he realized, isn’t a movie about technology. It’s a movie about people"

That quote, from the article, could be applied to every apocalyptic, zombie and robot movie. It's not about the [X], it's about how people react to [X].
Where can I submit a pull request to remove the F-word from these otherwise great tips, or do I need to fork. One could consider "dropping the F-Bomb" against many conferences code of conduct pertaining to "harassment includes offensive verbal comments." Also, as we try and mentor more youth to code, including school age girls, is this the persona we ware marketing?
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1-2% is a bit low.

I actually tested this several months ago for one my projects and it was about 5% (on a sample of few hundreds). That's a very respectable 1 in 20. Not that I disagree with your ROI point, it's just that playing well with non-default DPIs becomes progressively more important now.
Inspired by this, I went and downloaded all my tweets last night.

Then I looked through them. I can assure you that tweets may not be ephemeral, but they are most certainly disposable.
Except it seems to be within 7 minutes (new post at 7.14am, response by OP and another user at 7.21am), which is still impressive, but not quite so much.
Neither 1920x1080 nor 1600x1200 monitors are HiDPI, unless you're running them on a 10" laptop
http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/Heterogenous_collections lists some solutions
by looking at the video I know some of the people in Spain who are involved. They are in Bilbao. We did a consulting project with them in 2009. They are more in the creative educational industry.

I am not sure about the technology, however from look of the video I can say it is mostly aim at non-technology experts, with nice fancy design.

Can I ask what kind of people do we need to design all the chips hardware such as baseband processor, using open source design?

And what are HN opinion on Silent Circle?
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Exactly how many citizens in Hong Kong are dying because of hunger or shelter?

By the way, "Hong Kong is one of the healthiest places in the world. Hongkongers enjoy a life expectancy of 85.9 for females and 80 for men, which is the third highest in the world, and an infant mortality rate of 3.8 deaths per 1000 births, the fourth lowest in the world." [1]

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Health_in_Hong_Kong
As others have pointed out, the baseband is not your friend. Was thinking about this recently, and saw no reason why existing POCSAG (pager) networks couldn't be reused to provide a completely passive receiver. Imagine a phone where the baseband was off by default, unless attempting to make a call. Voicemail/e-mail summaries were broadcast encrypted via POCSAG, and generate notifications just like a new mail summary coming in via GPRS/3G would.

Obviously usability would suffer a little bit (mostly in huge latency when you actually wanted to make a call), but seems like very cheap phone could be built that integrated a pager, allowing complete disconnection from the 'active' radio network, avoiding location tracking by your cell provider, or similar evil tricks by third parties.
You can also find the duodecimal system in languages like English and German:

ten, eleven, twelve | thirteen, fourteen, fifteen, sixteen
zehn, elf, zwölf | dreizehn, vierzehn, fünfzehn, sechzehn
Short version. They don't really know.

"Although it is unknown why 60 was chosen, it is notably convenient for expressing fractions, since 60 is the smallest number divisible by the first six counting numbers as well as by 10, 12, 15, 20 and 30."
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Norway, which is the "happiest" country is ranked number 32 on this list.
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"I'm a man. I haven't had sex in two days. It hurts. I need some. Badly. Where do I find women looking for a man? Wait... Of course... Dating sites. Surely if I message 100 women, at least one must want to have sex, just like me?"

Statistics don't proof anything. A few rotten apples can cause most of the spam.

Besides, I doubt there are many men who don't put at least some sexual innuendos into a conversation with a potential mate, even if they are really desperately looking for a serious long-term relationship. A relationship consists of 2 parties, both with equal rights to have desires and requirements, hopes and dreams. We're not getting anywhere by implying one side is all bad and wrong and disgusting.

Your quote sounds more like a witchhunt on men than a (undoubtedly deserved) complaint about some of the more abusive "empty the uzi and see what got hit" Don Juans.
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Come on, this can't be the first time you've encountered shitty marketing lingo.
There's also a temperature display in the video on the landing page.
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> Mac OS did this too - I think in the 10.4 timeframe there was an option to actually switch into a higher DPI mode and many of the OS-internal UI assets were vector images

There was, though the assets were big scalable bitmaps, not vectors (even on modern HiDPI Macs, the UI assets are still way too big). John Siracusa covers a lot of this (and complains about it not being used) in his MacOS reviews.

> Yes. The Apple solution is a hack. Yes, it doesn't allow scaling to arbitrary factors.

It actually does, through a _really_ horrible hack. Say you want 1680x1050 _point_ resolution on a 2880x1800 MBP. You can select that; what the OS then does is draws at 3360x2100, then scales it down to 2880x1800. Sounds horrible, but generally works very nicely.

It's worth noting, by the way, that Metro scaling works much like MacOS scaling; it's only the desktop that uses the older style.
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> Steam is DRM. Sure, it's fairly nice as DRM goes, but it is still DRM.

Depends on what you mean by DRM. Many Steam games run without Steam and only use it as a platform for digital distribution.
Hong Kong enjoys one of the lowest unemployment rates in the world among developed countries.[1]

Maybe freedom leads to opportunities.

[1] http://www.tradingeconomics.com/hong-kong/unemployment-rate
> No-one really likes the situation

I actually like it. Write once, run everywhere has become true. Of course there is always room for improvement, but that too is happening (and with a really fast peace too).
Deaths from H1N1 tends to be treated as unique and scary, despite overall being much lower than deaths from plain old normal flu. It's hyped largely because it has higher mortality for people who are not normally in the death-from-flu demographic.

Back at my old job (doing special projects and data journalism for a small-town newspaper), I got to do week-by-week tracking of the flu season during the first year H1N1 was big in the media. Index of coverage is, surprisingly, still up and mostly works:

http://www2.ljworld.com/data/flu/

For the period we tracked (end September 2009 to end January 2010), deaths from "normal" flu outnumbered deaths from H1N1 by a factor of 33.

The demographic difference also comes through there: 14% of deaths from "normal" flu were under 65, while 80% of deaths from H1N1 were under 65.
> " Imagine a phone where the baseband was off by default, unless attempting to make a call."

Except if everyone started using a phone like that, you wouldn't be able to call anyone.
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They should probably work on the mixed-content SSL warnings on their own website. It's obviously not related to the security of the phones, but it doesn't instill much confidence.
I'm in :) that would YRock!
Rubbish. It's nobody's responsibility to pay low-skilled humans higher than market rates in an over-saturated market. As long as labour transactions occur are transparent, free and mutually consenting, why is it your right to force buyers to pay more than the price available sellers are willing to settle for? Potato sellers don't get to force you to buy their goods for $10 a kilo just because they don't like it that their competitors are happy with $2. Labour is a commodity like any other, despite the ridiculous emotionalisation of the market.
I used the original Dragdealer on a project 2 years ago and enjoyed working with it. I pushed it quite a bit, had it set to a step-sequence style slider/marker thing, dragging through dynamically added or subtracted steps. It took quite a beating before slowing down. It's eventual slow down in my app could have been due to code on my side trying to do too much on the page in response to the drag position.

I look forward to trying this new one.

Combined with cool stuff like pushState, it doesn't surprise me that web app capability is getting pretty damn interesting and is set to steal chunks of native app thunder. Whoever gets a good web-app store happening will be my hero! Not sure what the hold up is.

Really like the demo page:
http://skidding.github.io/dragdealer/

I didn't notice at first that the top header is actually a page-swiper to the config settings. Cool.
Also, it seemed to me that the dichotomy set up in BNW is that "natural is good and right, artificial or new is bad" - one that has soured me on Huxley basically since when I first read it.
It's not "others do it too" it is that the entire West has a shared security model and Europe has outsourced much of its defense.

http://cphpost.dk/news/denmark-is-one-of-the-nsas-9-eyes.761...

>Some of us would like to build companies to compete with the American hegemony

And you think the NSA is stopping you, well I don't know what to say to that.
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Yeah, I'm quitting just now, but never connected those two thoughts together - thanks! :)
My previous comment ("If that's the way you work, then your employer has made a mistake") was ambiguous, and actually illustrates a point regarding comments (and documentation in general). Like that comment, the short verb phrases that make up source code cannot always express the intent of the programmer (extreme 'self-documenting code' advocates think otherwise, but their experience with simple programs and algorithms doesn't generalize.) In such cases, comments are a good way to explain a design issue that is not obvious.

Who cares about these things, which don't change the code? Anyone who needs to understand the code, which includes anyone working on it, including its original author - writing a brief explanation of a tricky point can help you spot mistakes before you compile or test, or even before you write the code. The goal is to produce correct code, not just code, and the one thing that is faster than continuous testing is avoiding mistakes in the first place.

FWIW, I think the idea that comments need to be complete sentences is silly. Sentences can be as wrong, ambiguous, misleading or uninformative as simple phrases.
> All applications that do not explicitly claim to be DPI aware get just bitmap scaled, just like on OSX.

That isn't what happens for Cocoa apps on OSX, though. Non-retina-aware apps aren't bitmap scaled; the Cocoa UI stuff is still scaled up properly (XBench, which had its last release in 2006 targeting MacOS 10.3, looks perfectly sharp on an rMBP, for instance). It's just non-standard stuff that may be a problem.
Why would you need to do this (use 'shill' accounts, that is) and why would you care? You are allowed (encouraged, even) to answer your own questions on these sites - http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2011/07/its-ok-to-ask-and-answ...
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See also https://plus.google.com/+AndroidDevelopers/posts/22ji1SpGH9r
This looks like a great project, and nice to see them supporting OSM. Google gets (rightfully) lauded for offering quite good maps[1] of much of the developing world, but I recently checked out the OSM map[2] of the city I live in (Dakar, Senegal) and it's just as good, if not better. Bing Maps[3], by comparison, thinks there are 2 roads in the entire city.

[1]https://www.google.com/maps/preview#!data=!1m4!1m3!1d104828!...

[2]http://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=12/14.7286/-17.4508

[3]http://binged.it/1iUjAGi
While I agree with his premise, there are already industries that used to be startup focused where there is a gatekeeper. E-commerce has Amazon, advertising has Google (and possibly Facebook), which already destroy new startups before they really get started through this same VC mindset. It seems to me that the balance of power is just moving up the line a bit to industries where VC's have little to no power to influence.
Windows does support per-display DPI settings. Windows do get scaled when dragged from one display to another.
$sidebar.html("Do this");
$sidebar.html("instead");

Should maybe be: $sidebar.html("Do this").html("instead");
Does IBM suck for doing this?
I was reading the contents of this page http://www-03.ibm.com/software/products/en/websphere-commerce-enterprise to find out more about IBM's Websphere product. I was interrupted by a pop up chat window offering me help.

Here is how helpful they were, you be the judge!

you: Does WebSphere support business models that have retail, wholesale, independent brands and distributor arms?

Justin O.: Yes websphere would .

you: any case studies or live examples that you could point me to?

Justin O.: Are you looking at purchasing a websphere product ?

Justin O.: Can I have your name and company please ?

you: I am currently looking for what's available in the market

you: any case studies or live examples that you could point me to?

Justin O.: Can I have your name and company please ?

you: can't you just point me to case studies without getting my details? :)

Justin O.: Sorry , I couldn't I need to comply with IBM'S Export and Compliance Regulations .

Justin O.: Please refer to our website .

you: I am not trying to be difficult but IBM's Export and Compliance Regulations doesn't allow you to point a potential customer to a case study or relevant information that would help him/her to find further information about your product without getting their details?

Justin O.: I'm not trying to be difficult either , but we need to know who we are speaking to . Really sorry about this There is relevant information on our web site re Websphere .

you: I am requesting you to point me to publicly available information about your product that demonstrates your product's capabilities and you can't do that without knowing my details.

you: Thanks for your help.

Justin O.: Again apologies , have a nice day .

you: You too. Bye

Chat InformationChat session has been terminated by the IBM representative.
What does this mean (from design/ui)?:

Redundancy is a useful design technique. Labels+icons, color+width, etc.
It's a good idea but it's easier to click the link and do the action manually instead of typing the text and click reply. So there is absolutely no gain for me in using your product.
I know I'm an unfortunate case but as someone with a recently deceased mother I do not like this one bit.
It has nothing to do with how one day is divided, it's the calendar.
His point about mac users is that they tend to divide their screens in tiles while windows users tend to maximize the windows and switch between them. I found myself doing that on a mac too (I used to have a machine of each OS on my desktop) and was mostly because I never get used to the dock or exposé or even the way MacOS maximize windows
"Pre-ordering begins..." is letting folks their idea validating strategy. I wonder what the threshold is going to be, 100, 500, 1000 or more pre-ordered phones.
I'd have to somewhat disagree with this, Architecture is a philosophical pursuit and Engineering is physics. The two professions coexist but remain separate for accountability.

Maybe a better way of putting it might be ~ An Architect who can only conceptualize in 2D, therefore missing the opportunity to fully develop their designs in 3D.

And FWIW the only pretty drawings in my eyes are buildable designs! :)
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fair enough. i know it's for the keyboard savvy type.
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