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This piece doesn't seem to make any distinction between jQuery core, and jQuery plugins. If the lesson is "don't just stick random 3rd party scripts onto your site" then thats obviously good advice. If it's "don't trust jQuery, it might be dangerous", then I think they're just scaremongering.
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Launching a startup has become fairly easy, but...
Jobs was an asshole. He was a sociopath, like many of the folks in this article.
Technical term is "Factory". :^)
Well, to be fair, the second time the rebels killed tens of thousands of those contractors they managed to get the two guys at the top.
I think that would significantly increase the odds that my company moves from MATLAB (as one of the big arguments against is the lack of a good IDE), so yes, I would be incredibly interested in Julia support.
ive also noticed chrome updates breaking some jquery 1.7/1.8 code on my chrome plugin, and new warning messages in the console on my website. more bats =/
I was looking to hire out some market research like this! I'll likely be a customer soon.
...says the guy with a job.
In some economies you can hustle, pick up a few odd jobs and get by. Minimum wage means only Real fulltime jobs are available, and if you're not qualified you are done.

I advise against glib answers about ruining peoples lives.
Do you have any specific examples of how its "incredibly hampered"?
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Yes, the built-in deflation seems to be Bitcoin's biggest question mark.

Other the hand, Bitcoin doesn't have to replace the complete currency system to become a useful medium for transactions.

So, a low-level of inflation can still be maintained via fiat currency.

(We obviously need a certain amount of inflation to encourage people to invest vs. hoarding their money.)
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Black Holes, as originally posited, are quite extreme things to have sitting around in the universe (infinitely dense singularities etc). Physics seems to be tying itself in knots to figure out how they would work; alternatively the idea that they might not be possible in the first place is a much tidier solution.

This reminds me of a competing theory that states black holes (as currently understood) can't exist: Instead they are Magnetospheric eternally collapsing objects http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnetospheric_eternally_collap...
I love it, great scrappiness from the local team. As CEO i'd have a good chuckle, and tell them to tone it down a bit.

Generous of the article to refer to Gett as a "rival" and not a clone.
A series of business blunders by Commodore. Apple made similar blunders a decade later and barely survived them.
Order forms provided to CNNMoney show that more than a dozen Uber employees were involved, including community managers, operations managers, Uber's general manager, and the company's social media strategist. So much for blaming "our New York team".

Why does the bit at the end discuss California law? This happened in New York.
Let's not forget that economists (and to a larger extent, people in general) are notoriously terrible at predicting the future-- even the near future, let alone what might happen in 20 or 50 or 100 years. The economy is just too complex. Where economists excel is analyzing and explaining what happened in the past.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KYRcAKYYEG4
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A cynic like me thinks that's part of the point of bitcoin. Make it easy at the start to encourage adopters ("mine now and you'll have a big piece of the pie"), and later adopters will pay you back when it gets popular.
Great link! Only five minutes long, yet very interesting to hear the interactions between the two.

I especially enjoyed hearing the interviewer begrudgingly admit that it wasn't just women but also men on the site. He (Garfield) tries desperately to paint Moore as pure evil in every way, but is repeatedly forced to admit that Moore's actions are legal and in line with values of our country's laws (er, our laws until October 2013).
Well if you care for privacy and data protection I'd recommend not moving to SV. Most places are not a lot better but many places at least try harder/care at all.
No, seems it's not a clone, they created a new codebase in Python + Go.
"So please don't blow this out of proportion."

Surely that won't happen on a reputable site such as Hacker News.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7114913

Well. There's that.
> ... how can everything be relative when there's an absolute maximum velocity?

The observations leading to relativity theory put this question differently: Apparently the speed of light is constant, no matter how fast it's origin moves [1] : so we have to interpret our measurements relative to the speed of the observer. I still find Einstein's explanation the most readable [2]. He stays close to the geometrical description of reference frames and avoids the pictorial freedom known from monad tutorials...

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michelson%E2%80
%93Morley_experiment

[2] http://www.bartleby.com/173/5.html
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Still, I don't get why this piece insists on their lack of intention to out her in the published article, while admitting they outed her to an investor.

Feels like 'we dont want to tell the world about it, we just told it to some public figure in your field'
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Basically you're trading money for your time on the game. If you're impatient to proceed, it costs you more.
The device simulator should be sufficient - unless they are covering the video and audio manipulation. But that is extremely unlikely on a beginners course.
Every time I see Haskell I am reminded of programming in Forth for some reason.
Because it's physical, I think you give it more weight (so to speak). I doubt you average more than five or ten pieces of physical junk mail per day, but it's not uncommon to receive hundreds of spam messages a day, or more, most of which is blocked at the server level, and most of the rest of which is blocked by your client filters. I've had my email address for about 15 years, and there are thousands of attempts per day to send to it that my email server blocks, and then when gmail picks up my mail it cuts out promotional and social stuff, as well as whatever it think is spam, and I end up seeing 5-10 messages a day total (including mail I want to see; email is not a major channel for me outside of work any more...).

Further, that physical spam is really, really well targeted compared to email spam. You may not care about most of it, but at least it has something to do with your real life (mostly coupons and advertisements for local businesses, if yours is like mine).
I think every social site has underdelivered on revenue/profit. Basically from a business perspective (not get rich from being sold to another company/ipo) they all suck.

Am i right?
15". 16GB/256GB. I love the hardware for the most part.
The short version of maximum speeds is that velocities don't add how you'd expect at relativistic scales. If a ship is moving at 0.5c relative to an observer and it launches a missile forward at 0.5c relative to itself, the missile is moving at less than 1.0c relative to the same observer.

In fact, the missile could launch a smaller missile forward at 0.5c, and that missile would still be moving under the speed of light relative to the observer. If you just added speed up classically, it'd be going 1.5c.

Really it always works like this, but at speeds we consider normal the error from simplifying to v1+v2=v3 is incomprehensibly small.
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Thanks for jumping in. Any thoughts on hyperbole?
Well, if you want to improve the lifes of millions of people, your company has to make significants profits and grow strongly.

The thing that most people don't understand is that if a company isn't profitable, its products will never reach these people.

That's just reality, if you can't pay your employees, they will work for somebody else and all your idealism doesn't help there.
MLM 101. The top of the pyramid make the big money, everyone else gets played.
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Some good ones on that list. I'd definitely add A/B testing support built into the ecosystem (and controlled remotely) as well as alpha/beta release support for new releases.
(✓) Public reluctance to accept weird new forms of money
(✓) Huge existing software investment in SMTP

:)
Generous of the article to refer to Gett as a "rival" and not a clone.

Because Uber is so crazily innovative that no-one else would ever think about doing it? Come on. It's a car service with a smartphone app. There's a reason there are at least a dozen companies doing it.
We made Bitcoin this easy to use.[2:04]
Wow. Such Weather.
Not the mention the content in /r/programming was on HN 2-3 days prior.
> Also they have several system architectures and complete API rewrites over the years that mean their client-base rewriting the entire universe every time they move the goalposts.

There have only been two instances of that: 68k to PPC and then Mac Toolbox to Cocoa. Carbon held the gap for a number of years by porting Mac Toolbox APIs to use modern things like protected memory. Both of those events were necessary and welcomed changes.

PPC to Intel was not a major rewrite for anyone except people who already knew what they were doing.

What's the problem here? Providing new APIs that reflect the advancements in software technology made in the last 45 years is a _good thing_.
Yes, I only realised this recently. I got into the habit of paying (although via FB, as the cost to unlock new levels is 2 credits - 20c - rather than $0.99).

However, I'm actually quite happy to pay for the content directly. Developers don't work for free, and they're constantly adding to the game. I like to support them (and other devs) as so many people expect to get hundreds of hours of gameplay for free these days.

I don't see an issue with paying for content gates in such a fashion -- but I do dislike the "Pay $0.99 to get 5 more moves, you've nearly done it!" mechanic, and others like it, so I don't pay for those.
I think it's important to note that this paper has not yet been peer reviewed, so this is nothing more than an attention-grabbing title from Nature.
Final Fantasy is a poor example, I think.

Games like Castlevania, Mario, Zelda, Metroid which have simple but well-executed mechanics have basically gone out of flavor because the broader populace... I originally said this is because they do not enjoy difficult or lengthy games, however I think that may be incorrect. I think the wider populace craves achievement, and being able to show something for the time they've sunk into the game (as well as probably being put off by games with difficult learning curves). Games like Farmville, Candycrush, and most MMORPGs, while time consuming, award "something" the player can "show off" afterwards.

I think games like Spelunky are more along the lines of games the OP and many people I speak with miss. The indie game community on PC and XBLA have done wonders as of late. It's a shame it's not quite gone so well for mobile, but PC and mobile gaming are two massively different audiences. Quality games are far, far, FAR from dead, you just need to look to places where people with like-minded interests from you are.
It's complicated: http://arstechnica.com/series/history-of-the-amiga/
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Because for whatever reason CNN decided to call a CA based law firm to interview them and of course a CA lawyer is going to know first and foremost about CA law.
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And fix the typo "advanced trasaction" too...
Agreed. Bitcoin already has a built in transaction scripting language that is deliberately not Turing complete. Most of the issues actually stem in terms from timing and synchronizing with external variables...not the limitations of the scripting language. For example, for a while it was believed you could make cross-chain contracts secure (without a trusted third party) but, afaik, nobody managed to work out the subtle race conditions.
Well, it depends on context. In Java, they're factories. The more general term seems to be "platform". For the world of cryptocurrencies, I'd propose "mint".
microsoft is so stupid, haha
Between this and how they handled the girl who was killed by an Uber driver on New Year's Eve in San Francisco...my opinion of them has taken a decided turn for the worse in the past few weeks. And for both, I can't help but think that company culture is set from the top.
And yet others are sinking to the lowest common denominator, and hardcore studios are slowly learning about F2P. I love the current indie movement, but it's not strong on mobile, because players are being trained not to pay for games and indies tend to produce full content with an upfront price rather than use the "scam" mechanics. There are definitely titles that manage to walk the line well (e.g. with episode or item IAPs) and I think we'll see more of those.
What are you referring to? If I recall, it hasn't really changed a lot, other than minor things such as replacing the wrench icon with a hot-dog
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Legal does not mean good or right, of course. The guy is still a complete scumbag, emotionally broken at some point in his early development I imagine.
I have to agree, my largest gripe with the app store is searching for an app. When I look for a decent app, I currently google for app reviews, then go back to the app store find it by name and download it.
I'd be up for working on that. I had the same idea a few weeks ago. Drop me a line if interested.
With Salt you can now go ssh only (http://docs.saltstack.com/ref/cli/salt-ssh.html) and if speed is of essence switch to the faster non ssh method (0mq style).
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It's more than zoning regulations. It's the difficulty of aggregating a large enough parcel. There are two ways to own an urban block: acquire it parcel by parcel over time or purchase it from someone who has acquired it parcel by parcel over time. [1]

Obviously basic market place principles play a role. Remaining parcels go up in value as the block becomes increasingly under single ownership and because other people are trying to do the same thing [2]- identifying prime parcels for redevelopment is easy for obvious parcels and there are lots of eyes looking for less obvious parcels.

[1] ok, sometimes you can get the government to condemn the block and turn it over to you in one fell swoop and that's probably the most cost effective in many places.

[2] The third to last parcel on a block remaining to be aggregated has often improved its location because of the aggregation process and hence commands a much higher price than paid for parcels already part of the aggregate.
Fraud is a felony.
Salt additionally is not opencore, but truly opensource.
Actually, the javascript removes the article THEN adds some inline "overflow:hidden" style attributes and creates an overlay as well as a few paywall divs that also match a overflow:hidden css rule. The rest all seems like overkill since the content is deleted from the page anyway.
maybe I'm wrong but don't you need to unlock the bootloader before, and doing the phone will be erased as a security measure?
Considering humans haven't built a single, intelligent machine yet, talking about far-fetched science fiction ideas like singularity and predicting the future (as if this is ever possible) removes any credibility the author and article might have had. With the sensationalist headline out of the way, we just have the current incidents, something not worth addressing. If it ramps up, these idiots will go to jail. They likely know that and it's likely why they are protesting google busses and an engineer's home rather than executives. The upper class has once again turned the lower class on itself and the lower class is just too stupid to realize it.
Why would you apologize?
The world has way too many problems to crush time and brainpower down the drain.

I'll never touch this game or games from people with this ethos
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The slider at the bottom is pretty interesting. Looks like programming disappeared for a while and then came back.
Right, but that's assuming that performance is the most pressing constraint. Sometimes it's confidence in the query producing the right result, or maintenance further down the line.
Does Minuum use the Y position of taps as well as the X? If not, it is throwing a predictor away.
I know Yemen does (or did) support the US drones being deployed.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/middle_east/when-us-dron...
> people are hoarding them expecting increases in value. This is not a good hallmark of a currency and is a flaw that all the derivative coins fail to address.

This is the fundamental problem with all non-fiat currencies and is why the world moved off the gold standard
I'll take talk about singularity more seriously once we have built at least one intelligent machine. Until then, I just marvel at supposedly intelligent people's delusions of said singularity.
Yeah. It sounds like his theory is that gravity/spacetime eventually becomes "turbulent" as the energy level of gravity approaches C (I'm sure I phrased that wrong). My instinctive analogy is to compare it to how the ideal gas law or laminar flow equations fall apart in cases where individual particle interactions screw everything up... to the level that it's impossible for all the matter to get compressed into a single point.

That's far more interesting to me than the idea that the "event horizon" is gone.
Under settings there is an option for you to import your android dictionary, as well as import contacts. I like that they it's opt in, and going by your comment it seems like they're being honest.
The problem is that you also need to ensure that it isn't easily replaceable. Which bitcoin is.
Also

(✓) Sending email should be free
I use Cryptsy to exchange for BTC. I cash out to USD when I have around 1 BTC. So no, not realized yet and subject to volatility.
Since they are using postgresql, it might be relevant to know that count distinct have for a very long time been a weak spot for pg.

Since release 9.3 index-only scans have been implemented and performance of count distinct queries improved significantly - no more full table scans.

Wiki page: https://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Slow_Counting

It would be fun to have access to the same dataset or a more detailed description of the tables involved for further tinkering ....
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I echo my comment from the other Hawking thread on the HN front page:

The article being referred to seems to be a short piece where he summarizes his points and puts forward a (new?) idea. Maybe it's obvious to researchers in the field, but I don't see much argument or reasoning supporting his claim. It seems like he's just introducing a new idea for people to consider (brainstorming with the community).

So please don't blow this out of proportion.
I just laughed out loud. Thanks!
Seven 290x video cards between two systems. They're running lower than peak output due to not having enough power (nearly maxing a 20A breaker). Here's my custom dashboard I wrote to monitor it: http://driverdan.com:3000/
Not being correct is not a sin.

Beyond that, the paper isn't pants-on-head crazy. The objections most people have to it can be solved by adding a single term to one of the equations, and some very straightforward sensitivity analysis.

Which is, you know, exactly the kind of thing pointed out in peer review.
Why were they even allowed to trademark a generic word like Candy? Can they ask Websters or Oxford to remove word candy from their dictionaries?
njpatel I would love to get my hands on your python code on the reactor stuff. Still haven't found a real world example for updating loadbalancers or dns.
I so strongly remember the first Mac I encountered... in 1984, tucked away in a corner room at Grinnell College. Some friends and I played with the MacDraw and MacWrite programs and the little dot-matrix printer, creating character sheets for a Call of C'thulhu RPG I was running that summer.

I knew this was the future, not that clunky VAX they were putting in downstairs to replace the PDP-11 that ran the campus network.

A year later, I walked away from college and computing, and didn't take it up again for several years. My first PC of my own was a Mac LC.
For an example of extremist protesting have a look at the animal rights movement in the UK.

For a long time there were a broad range of groups. There were people involved in letter writing and politcal campaining at one end, and lab-raiding at the other end.

Some of the people raiding labs tried to exploit loopholes in English law to get hold of documents. If you have no i tent to permanently deprive the owner it isn't theft, so they would take documents, copy them, and return them. They lost that argument.

And then things got a bit more extreme.

Anti fur campaigners set "smoke bombs" in coats, with the intent to trigger sprinkler systems and cause water damage. The sprinkler systems didn't work and the shops burnt down.

Some people involved in animal industries faked bombs - someone involved in running a hunt claimed activists had set a bomb in his vehicle when he'd done it.

Then anti hunt activists dug up corpses for ransom.

Relevant to this thread is the amount of activity around Huntingdon Life Sciences. Activists used a variety of tactics such as campaigning outside suppliers to HLS. Those suppliers increased their prices or dropped out, which increased costs. Some activists campaigned outside the homes of people who worked at HLS or their suppliers.

While I support peaceful vigorous protest (and I hold a gently anti-vivisection viewpoint) I found a lot of the protesting really troubling.

There was talk of changing the law. I'm not sure if that worked or not. (I'd have thought that English police have plenty of tools to target such demonstrations).
I've heard about that, and I've played one Sam & Max game by Telltale :) .

I don't have and don't plan on owning any Apple devices - not useful and too expensive in my country, the local ecosystem uses Android, so I hope they release more games for Android :) I thought they hadn't released, any but apparently they just did !!! Should show them some support by buying it :)

www.slimgamer.com/16504/telltales-the-walking-dead-season-one-finally-comes-to-android/

should I watch the TV series before?

Thank you for pointing me to that game :)
Social mobility in the US hasn't fallen
But isn't `DISTINCT` sort of shoving an imperative square peg into the round hole of declaritive set relations?

At least in my time with MSSQL, seeing `SELECT DISTINCT ...` was a red flag. It nearly always meant something needed to be refactored using GROUP BY.
I think this was more an exposition on the general technique than specific recommendation.

The general theme should be, "how do I make my database do less work?" followed by a list of techniques, including "pre-aggregate to reduce volume". In this case, the pre-aggregates are in-line. Whether in-line pre-aggregates are appropriate will depend on context, just as you say.
That's such a broad question. In order to answer it, I'd need to discuss each and every "social site". Hell, I don't know every social site. And my definition of what is and what is not a "social site" might differ from yours. Is LinkedIn a social site? What about Constant Contact?
or Bitcoin could be one of paypal's payment methods
You just know that the Adbusters reading fantasists took part in this while having iphones in their pocket.
Haha, I think we're arguing semantics here. Yes, I agree it's a real gaming platform, but not in the sense the guy above me was talking about.