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It's not notpicking, and your constant attempts to belittle critical responses to your opinion is becoming annoying.

Your argument is: because you don't see their products intersecting with your life, and - you imagine - that of many others, you imagine that's an undesirable position for them to be in, and that computing has largely moved on and left them behind.

I'm pointing out that your argument is focused on one niche -- a big one, but by all means not one that makes them "left behind" just because they have a small presence within it.

Perhaps you think Walmart [1a] is irrelevant and left behind because you never shop there? Or that Apple [1b] is irrelevant and left behind because you don't own an i*device/service?

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_largest_companies_by_re...

[1a] The largest US company by revenue

[1b] The largest US company by market cap
Alcohol and sugar share some similarities in how they are metabolized in the body. It's not so surprising that they are both listed as culprits.
There are airports that are easier to get to (for example London City Airport that I use often) - though not sure how many airports that conveniently located have good first class lounges. But would definitely make sense if you live near the airport, or work at the airport, or if rather than going just for a meal you use it as office space (go there, eat breakfast, work using their free wifi, lunch, etc.)
I would figure that in a few years or possibly now but top secret that a ground based laser system exists that can effectively disable satellites. The Chinese have supposedly demonstrated such
Awesome, my nightly got updated to 30! FF FTW!
Perhaps there is a market for latex gloves that are snug and seal better at the wrist (similar to the male condom).
That wouldn't work. Now imagine the officer is fired for arresting a local politician and a complaint is filed for excessive force. If the union could pick and choose who to defend, they may court favors from the politician for not defending this guy. Now all protections he had are gone, and he has no recourse since his union won't argue on his behalf. Thats why they have to defend them always, you don't hate the public defender who has to defend the rapist/murder no matter how bad the crime, just the same as you can't hate the union for defending their member.
It's a wonderful concept but I don't know if its development would just sit there. I guess I should offer pull requests.
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If we weren't on a webtube BBS called "Hacker News" I'd be much more likely to agree.
love the comparison to apple & the notion that a design-forward brand (in this case, software enabling easy purchase of important consumer goods) can help tackle a traditionally archaic and bureaucratic space. super excited to see how things progress.
My friend recently tackled this in a hackathon using FireBase as the backend, and gh-pages as a static host. He hasn't open sourced it yet, though (I've just pinged him with this thread).

It will be available at github.com/shashankmehta/firelaunch as soon as he does.
Ask HN: Should I sue drchrono (YC W11) for violating their contract w/ me?
[1 of 2]: My name is Dr. Dal Bedi. I'm owner of a medical practice in Va. I took a chance on a start-up drchrono as my EHR & billing service provider; both services being a vital part of my business. It's a decision I wish I never made. In the past 5 mo, I've had massive issues w/ the drchrono service. The setup of their billing & collections services has taken 4 months due to repeated, inept errors by outsourced-to-India drchrono billing staff. Other drchrono users have been complaining about similar issues & have asked for refunds: http://bit.ly/1doMER9 & http://bit.ly/1fL8dzH. I've forwarded pages of errors to the drchrono staff http://cl.ly/image/200i2D2y1s2R , http://cl.ly/image/1z0g230x0N1I , http://cl.ly/image/3H072F0f3k43 , http://cl.ly/image/0k3G1t2h3h3w , http://cl.ly/image/0V1x2h3E2m43 , escalated w/ their support team for months, and finally escalated to the CEO, Michael Nusimow. When that proved ineffective, I asked for a refund for the months when the service wasn't functional, all while being a committed customer w/o a single outstanding balance. This past Xmas Eve, drchrono sent me an email raising my monthly fee 3x from $1.5k/mo to $4.5k/mo starting Jan 1st, 2014 w/o any reason given -- even tho. we have a signed contract which sets the price for their services and can't be changed.
Good point.

The development of some kind of strong AI is often proposed as a catalyst for a technological singularity, and I was kind of following that lead. While I agree that self-awareness may not be needed, it is the only thing I can think of that would motivate an AI to enhance itself up the exponential curve. Relying oh humans to do this probably wouldn't work (past some initial pump-priming) as they tend to get distracted by other human-scale things.

On the other hand, speculating about motivation in relation to an AI may be misleading anyway...
As a UK tax payer who has to regularly interact with government websites looking for information I am very pleased with the ROI of this project. It's faster, smoother, better organised and less daunting to try to find stuff. It's not perfect but it's a truck load better than the previous versions and, if I understand the reporting, cheaper than outsourcing it via a tender process that would have landed up being built and then abandoned anyway.
Nope. It was just a really sleepy half-joke, where "what do you believe?" is answered with something that starts with "I believe in ..."
True, though that doesn't sound like a book I would enjoy reading. Ebook formatting is terrible enough as it is.
A hack is a novel solution using existing technology outside of its primary intended use case. Even though this is a 'social hack', a hack is nonetheless exactly what this is.
we're busy working on IRC integration right now!
2013 was such a good hear for Mozilla that I now looked at this release and was thinking - "blah! just another FF release". I then realised what had happened. They have developed so much momentum and such a good track record that I have taken their best product's release for granted...
We have repo, but it is not public

Here a code example.

https://gist.github.com/anonymous/8805880
For a system with a set turnover ratio, you could make a claim that everyone in the company views their own success as a result of someone else's failure. Be it a VP, GPM, Team Lead, etc. Because it happens at every level within the organization.
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One of the general misunderstandings of libertarianism is "since you're pro-market you must be pro-business." Free market libertarians are generally business/labor neutral as libertarianism simply provides the framework for the players. A libertarian would view a business/labor union that relies on government cooperation as a failure.
SizeUp on Mac OS X.
Space for carry-on luggage is limited. If you board last, there is a high possibility that the airline will check-in your carry-on luggage instead. This will cause you a delay since now you need to wait in the baggage claim area after arrival. Had you boarded just 5mins prior, someone else might have to wait 30mins in baggage claim instead of you.
While I always thought the large display to be rather silly, really I don't need a giant rectangle when knobs would do better for some functions, like radio or better yet the sunroof, I am more convinced that most cars bombard their users with too much information.

while gearheads like myself want gauges/displays for as much as we can see most people need to know only a few items, namely speed, distance till empty, and time.

Most displays should be treated like idiot lights, not visible until something is outside of nominal. A large display, or even the smallish display of my car's navigation system, are mostly overkill while not using any advanced function. At most show me the radio and go away.
Here is code example and how a controller works

https://gist.github.com/anonymous/8805880

By no way comparable to Wordpress ;-)
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I loved it, made me laugh, I need to share it!
> I know nothing about his career, but, after having a closer look at the other two, a pattern of executive placement as an offensive weapon starts to form.

Good Lord, that is some serious speculation :)
There are markdown parsers available for PHP (http://michelf.ca/projects/php-markdown/ as an example), but the websocket thing might be quite challenging. PHP's architecture doesn't lend itself well for many concurrent long-running connections.

Unless you want to run out of RAM very quickly, you are much better off to do everything involving long-running connections using node.js or any other environment that works in an event based fashion as threads (and in case of most safe PHP architectures, usually processes) are way too expensive for that.
Call me backwards, but I got my first car last year--a 12 year old VW Polo--and I couldn't be happier with its basic layout. Physical buttons I can find without ever looking away are the best, and I hope I never get a car like the Tesla, that's replaced all the physical controls with one huge touchscreen... And SatNav? Honestly, I don't care about that... Look at street signs and maybe pull over and study the map rather than trying to figure out things whilst driving?
[2 of 2]: I finally sent them a demand letter 2+ weeks ago stating that I wanted to leave the service & asking for my patient & billing data back. They haven't responded to it despite requests from me and from my attorney. My attorney says the next step is to file a lawsuit against them. I don't want to do that to a startup, but they are holding my patient data hostage in their system and refusing to respond to the demand letter. Without that data, my ability to do business is in jeopardy. Any suggestions on what I should do? I badly need my data back.
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That's one hell of an authorization request. I see the reasoning in the sidebar, but I'm not really willing to take that kind of chance to try out a new chat service.
Might want to check out leadpages.net, only bummer is that it's not free. Also, doesn't square space offer launch pages?
The only reason I don't like boarding last is that sometimes the overhead storage is so full it can be a pain in the ass to fit my suitcase anywhere near my seat, which not only is a minor annoyance when boarding, but can delay me when getting off (if I have to put it further behind where I sit). Generally I aim to be in the last 3rd of people boarding.

There are also budget airlines that don't offer reserved seating (e.g. EasyJet and Ryanair in Europe - I think, I don't fly these airlines though), so priority boarding on them allows you to chose a seat, or to ensure you sit next to whoever you're traveling with.
As far as i know, the navigation systems are somewhere in between LEO and geostationary orbit.
No offense, but Metasploit is already 11 years old, and this is Hacker News.
Quote: Do they have to defend someone who is outside of the union's stated rules/expectations for a member?

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I guess they would say that the person is 'accused' of being outside of their rules - and until they have satisfied themselves of that, then they need to support them.
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I apologize if my comments seem belittling, I assure you they're not meant that way. In fact, condescension is the main impression I got from your first reply. At the same time I feel your tone has taken on a personal and aggressive quality that is not acceptable. I was merely trying to rectify what I thought was a miscommunication or maybe a misunderstanding of my original post. Now I see that's not likely to be productive, so excuse me for bowing out of this thread.
they know that these emails are immediately going to show up externally. that's why there isn't real strategic content in them.
Correction: FOBS put warheads in low earth polar orbit.
How are they supposed to determine if an illegal action is committed? Isn't that the job of the court system?
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Exactly, I don't know why no one else has mentioned this before. It's a huge safety problem. and DOT should have done something about it.
I'm here and happy to answer any questions you have about getting started with iOS.
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Requirements, especially in government, will change quite quickly whatever you do, so I'd argue that fast agile development is more beneficial and cost-effective than slower development cycles.
It can be taken too far though. If I go shoplifting am I "hacking the shop"? If my shower breaks and I pour bottled water over myself to clean am I "hacking bottled water"?
Video fail: apparently Bill Gates video was filmed with a chroma-keying (blue-screen) and because of original reflections on his glasses you can now see "through his head".

Look at his glasses: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M5BhQVuRcTk
Thanks for the link to the book. I've been looking for something that would substantiate my previous source of such politicking information, this colorful but unfootnoted comment over on MetaFilter by eriko: http://www.metafilter.com/48654/Jan-28-1986#1189388
It's not in the rainbow as in the diagram you link to ("CIE 1931 color space chromaticity diagram"). The diagram has the

R

G B

"in 2 dimensions" and the values between and the rainbow has it as

R G B

"in one dimension" and the values between.

Edit: under "it" I wrote about magenta, as the main article writes too. The "drawings" are about the appearance of magenta. I see you talk about violet. Yes it is an interesting observation about how we see the colors.
While I agree that they are not foolproof you do not use them separately. A combination of active and passive systems is used by the car to understand its surroundings.

I would never compare the electronics used in aviation to anything employed in cars, the level of trust in aviation and the regulations behind it are legion. I seriously doubt that manufacturers would want to be under similarly complex and expensive regulation
> Corporations aren't really immoral, just amoral.

In this instance, it's just splitting hairs. The net effect is still the same: they're doing damage to a person and probably the environment for the sake of money, and are aware of this but it doesn't stop them.
Why are all of them column based? You cant arbitrarily resize a console window in 2014?
Is the slope on those charts really steeper than population growth?
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Ah to be a tetrachromat. Interesting reference to the June 2012 study.
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Who are we?

We’re a tiny team working to engineer the perfect night out with friends. What goes into that? So far we’ve built out matching algorithms, logistics optimizations, customer service AI, and a real-time collaborative email client that’s better than Gmail.

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You’re a world-class developer with a track record of shipping excellent products. You’re comfortable hosting a brown bag tech talk. You’re a fearless explorer - If there’s something you don’t know how to do, you’ll figure out the lowest cost path to understanding it.

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Why is this 'secret'? We're not exactly in a cold war anymore and the terrorists don't care if we're in space? Why not just tell us what the plane is up front?
No, I'm pretty sure WordPress is still about blogging - it's got a lot of other features too. Whenever I've talked to a single "average" user they have never talked about "just the blog". Every single person wants to create pages, control the navigation, mess with their templates, install that favorite SEO plugin of theirs, integrate with MailChimp, have a login system, sell ecommerce products.

Even Ghost is acceding to those needs with their Pages features and I'm sure soon to exist plugins (if they don't have it already).

WordPress' codebase is not terrible. Kinda messy? Sure. Idiomatic? Not so much. Does it work? Yes. Does it power millions of websites and blogs? Yes.

My point with Go is that if you want to have a successful project you have to do something novel and there's nothing novel in what you're doing - you're an engineer experiencing "I can do this better" syndrome. I do that all the time, take a step back and really think hard about what my value proposition is (even for OSS projects). If it's already being served by some other project or product and I want that thing to be "better" then it makes more sense to help improve the other thing.

Or in Ghost's case, build it on an entirely different platform (which is novelty), with novel features.
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It is good, now all the latest major browsers support TLS1.2 with forward secrecy. It is unfortunate that IE doesn't put FS suits first though.

For you Windows server operators out there, I suggest IISCrypto to order your cipher selection (this works on desktop versions of Windows too).

https://www.nartac.com/Products/IISCrypto/
Crockford is largely how I learned too. He's a crank but I've found that to be a useful property when I was learning JS. (Or really, re-learning it as you say)
Imagine you're a guard there and I drop by every day for a meal. You're wondering if I'm a a terrorist looking for security holes while I eat, and your biggest concern is false negatives: you would hate to rule me out as a threat and then find out I blew up your airport. What questions would you ask me to figure that out?
Looks like most of it is touch, including the defroster and temp controls. http://blogs-images.forbes.com/briancaulfield/files/2012/06/...
Dying of cancer is a good thing- it means you didn't die in childbirth or from malaria or diabetes. Cancer is a really big name for a lot of the tough diseases we don't yet have a cure for. This "tidal wave" is simply mortal humans living long enough that they start breaking on a molecular level. That may someday change but living long enough to die from cancer is, sadly, the grand prize in life. Not much of a prize but still better than the alternative.
> Added support for SPDY 3.1 protocol

Just in time to use it with nginx 1.5.10 :P
What special development is required to get a site working with put.io, isn't that the job of the chrome plugin ?

I would love to make

http://tormovies.org/

compatible for registered put.io users
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Of course, the question then of who to trust to be your cloud provider running your conciousness-as-a-service process becomes a very serious one.

The main problem is the lawyers. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IFe9wiDfb0E
That "different background color" becomes invisible on cheap TN laptop screens at a slight deviation from vertical. I wouldn't be surprised if Google A/B tested background colors until they happened upon one that effectively disappears for a lot of users.
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Probably wouldn't have noticed that.
The glsl shader editor isn't announced in the release notes. It is supposed to be included in FF 27.

https://hacks.mozilla.org/2013/11/live-editing-webgl-shaders...
Hacking has unfortunately become a buzzword, and now you can apply it to just about anything to make something stupid sound clever: "Honey, let me hack the light bulb for you". I agree with you, it's plain ridiculous.
A slight elaboration about the way your eye works: The cones are not on-off affairs, and they are not limited to specific wavelengths. Each type of cone has a response curve, and these curves overlap (see e.g. the Wikipedia article about Cone cells: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cone_cell ). So different colors are not really "made up" by filling in the gaps between the wavelengths. Each color we see corresponds to a specific cone response pattern. So for example, 500 nm would lead to responses of (roughly) 0.3, 0.4, 0.1.

This means the explanation here is slightly misleading, as it compares yellow (which is a color that does exist as a single wavelength) with magenta, which is by definition a mix of at least two wavelengths.

You could say that magenta is a compound color, the interpretation by our brain of the simultaneous stimulation by at least two wavelengths (i.e. two or more cone response patterns). This means, of course, that magenta is far from the only color for which this is true. Any combination of at least two wavelengths is a compound color, and the interpretation of each of these combinations will not be found on the visible spectrum.

So, interesting article, but a bit oversimplified, in my view.
I don't see how running a ghost instance isn't easy or cheap, there are a lot of options: http://www.howtoinstallghost.com/
Indeed, I find the article and the objections mentioned in it perfectly reasonable. The only question that interests me is a firmware update would be sufficient if it:

- disables non-essential features above a certain speed

- makes all essential features visible and usable without navigation

From the quoted law it sounds like this should be enough.

To be honest, I'm a little surprised that this isn't how the Tesla works. It's a car, and hiding something like the rear fog lamp behind layers of navigation sounds dangerous and should be forbidden.
You are right about the PHP architecture. As wrote there is no need for web socket. You can parse the markdown code in browser.
Good question, perhaps giving it an actual name would reveal too much. General consensus seems to think its a 'deploy on demand' reconnaissance transport (basically a bunch of signal or optical gear in the payload that it can point at various places and then return). That would make it something like an MQ-37 or RQ-37.
>> Only to have to turn on the fog lights, the driver must tap through several levels

Whaaat? That looks like a huge mistake in terms of UI. I was dreaming of getting Tesla once we got enough electric-gas-stations in Europe. But I wouldn't ever buy a car that shifts so much control to touch screen.
This is a really weird approach to asking for support for an OSS project. Bad vibes with this one.
Looks much better now: https://www.howsmyssl.com/
In my opinion, this should be considered similar to using a smartphone while driving. The only use case for which I see a reason for the screen to be on while driving would be for navigation purposes.

Other than that, I certainly don't want the guy driving in front of me to be browsing the web or checking his journey stats while driving.
I don't have enough karma to downvote you but I will say that I think your comment isn't adding to the conversation. He's someone with a project that he feels strongly about; misguided or not thought through? Sure.

Instead of sarcasm, help this guy realize his talent for building software could be directed in a more productive fashion than playing "copy cat".
It does not impose any extra constraint on the design of a telescope, and very little help telling where to point it, or how to analize the data.

Our current telescopes probably aren't good enough to catch a small hot object by now, but there is nothing to gain from explicitly including that as a goal.
What is this about having fewer kids contributes to cancer?