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Firefox is both better and worse than other browsers in dealing with intents.

On the worse side, unlike some other browsers Firefox doesn't raise intents for redirected URLs, missing some opportunities to match appropriate apps. I believe the underlying issue is that too many redirect situations are ambiguous (especially if you might not be the default browser). I mostly deal with this with an external wrapper (Browser Auto Selector, Unshorten or the like), but it's still a weakness.

On the other side, the Firefox intnet feature that I love is that when you long-press/right-click/etc on a URL that matches some non-browser apps, you get the option of opening it in those apps (for YouTube, the Play Store, Twitter, etc.). I haven't seen any other browser with that option (though, to be fair, I spend most of my time in Firefox). It would be extra-wonderful if there were a reliable way to hit the YouTube link from an embedded video, but even without that, it's very handy.
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A completely black LCD is quite bright at night.
Historically doctors have been the most educated people. Not many people went to Uni and very few had a Masters. Doctors had 5-7 years of rigorous education and did quite a bit of lifelong learning, including following scientific research. To most people, they were by far the most educated person they interacted with.

Today, a lot of people have degrees and even the ones who don't have the opportunity to engage with a lot of self education through the internet, a lot of it informal (like HN). Doctors are also more knowledgable than they were but the gap has narrowed. The difference between doctors and the median (or 75 percentile) person has narrowed. Obviously, they still know a helva lot more about medicine, especially in their specialization but when it comes to Science as a discipline or statistics/math/etc., they aren't that far ahead of the pack.

*BTW, oncologists are probably the most versed in science, research methodology & statistics because they participate in a lot of research and choosing a course of treatment may be a choice between treatments based of studies with samples of insufficient size or duration to make absolute statements about. One study follows remission rates of patients segmented by the presence of specific genes in the cancer. Another remission rates for a slightly modified treatment and slightly different segmentation. etc.

Anyway, I don't think cases is irrelevant or incorrect thing to look at here. The number of cases is the number of people that need to be treated. If you are talking about prevention, the number of cases is a relevant indicator of success.
Sure. Link to complaints form?

They should have a no personal names policy, IMHO.
I don't remember seeing such an individual complaint laid out against any one company. The post was a personal gripe.

I'd hate to see the front page of HN turn into a YC complaint board.
Check out the book Effective JavaScript[1], too.

[1] http://effectivejs.com/
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>so PG gave the definitive answer: Talk to them.

Which the poster has been doing, and it hasn't worked?
I can't speak for anywhere else, but Google's public transit information for Beijing is excellent. Even has correct and complete information for bus routes. (Use ditu.google.cn for best location results, may require an IP address inside the PRC)
Disclosure: A Case for Bug Bounties
I will switch to windows if they make it as easy to develop on as it is on unix. Maybe have a fully supported unix commandline emulator?
Those of us who follow cop "puppycide" do not believe there's anything "accidental" about the vast majority of these cases, and there's plenty of anecdotal evidence backing that up. Even some on video, I'm told.

And I direct you to noonespecial's reply. I'm old enough to have noticed the transition from "peace officers" (a basically righteous gang) to "law enforcement officers" (a gang of thugs) in my home town from the '70s to the previous decade. Helped along by a cop playing a game of chicken with his car and my body, I'm pretty sure trying to generate an "fleeing" arrest statistic.
Is it the cancer? Or the treatment? I've lost several loved ones to cancer, and I'm not saying cancer is an easy way to go, but intensive chemotherapy that takes all the energy out of a person, and only prolongs someone's life by one agonizing painful year, seems worse to me than just letting the cancer consume you.

Of course you have no way of knowing ahead of time whether or not the treatments will work... If you have most of your life ahead of you, fight the cancer. But if I get cancer at 75 (which I very well may, if genetics play a role in these things), I'm considering choosing to forgo treatment in order to save everyone pain, time, and money. I just don't think it would be worth living like deathly sick person for potentially years, only to die at 82 of something else.
I can see both sides of this. On one hand, it would severely degrade the quality of HN if it became a sounding board for complaints against Ycombinator funded companies. One the other hand, there was a chance for a completely germane discussion about quality customer service at Saas companies in general and small startups in particular. If a person does outsource a critical business function and the company doesn't respond, what is a person to do? What is an acceptable response time when the error brings a person's business to a standstill?
Something like this:

Ask HN: Should I be really excited about how awesome
drchrono is? They have treated me with dignity and
class since I signed up. This is in addition to saving
me hours per day and thousands of dollars on each
transaction. What do you think, HN?
> I think the union should absolutely have the right to pick and choose which cases to defend

I don't believe so since that opens up the whole issue of who is to judge whether the "clear and blatant violations" actually occurred and if there's any extenuating circumstances. This discussion will be had in the hearing where the union takes the side of the defending party.

Basically it's the same principle as fair trial: Everyone has a right to have a fair trial and bring an attorney that has the duty to defend him, no matter the charges or how clear the case seems.
For anyone wanting to play with fictional starships and radiators, I'd like to suggest Kerbal Space Program with the Interstellar Mod. It adds fission, fusion and antimatter reactors with all their drawbacks(), generators (even gives the carnot efficiency), and of course radiators, with the generator efficiency depending on how hot the reactor is vs how cold the radiators are.

() fission produces waste subproducts, have to be shutdown for maintenance and cool down, fusion requires an electrical generator to sustain the fusion (also fuel, have to centrifuge deuterium etc) and of course antimatter have to be collected and stored in magnetic containment devices which require power to maintain. etc.
It seems quite likely that whoever turns quantum computing into something practical will face exactly that criticism from the academic quantum computing community, largely since it appears construction of what they think of as proper quantum computers doesn't seem to be too feasible. If D-Wave have managed it I must admit I'd be surprised, but the amount of venom thrown their way is curious.
That was not my reading. To me the post seemed to be well intended: a way to get the message through to the investors so that the problem could be resolved without legal unpleasantness. EDIT: That is still well within request for "honest advice" in my books, or at least I dont see whats dishonest about the advice sought.
This is the best simple graphic explanation I found yet: http://www.phdcomics.com/comics.php?f=1162
From a technical standpoint, I'd love to see Microsoft starting to gain more traction in the developer world. Coming from Java and Objective-C, I'm pretty excited about C# and .NET, which seem much friendlier towards us developers.
Case in point, I first read this on my phone, and wanted to investigate further now that I'm on my laptop. So I go to HN and no longer see it on the front page, and can't conjure up what I want to search for. Uh, something Japanese-sounding that starts with a "k", I think?
Thank you. I was looking for catchy headline. This headline didn't come to my mind. On our actual campaign we don't use this title.

We would do it, even if no one gives us money. Some money would just accelerate the process.
For one thing, Sigma appears to have an ortho layout; D3 only does force-directed, right?
He is son of an IAS officer, he is part of Indian Elite. But coming to US in 80s and making to University of Chicago means he is a real deal.
Started very slow, but the points made at the end were more technical and indeed very interesting.

Watched it sipping sugared tea over a slice of apple pie though.
Microsoft has a long history of being focus on the marketing of developers, even as the main strategy to prevail and control the corporate IT market. Having a CEO who shares a similar culture background as more than half the population of who currently employed in IT industry, brings to Microsoft a distinctive advantage when it comes to both selling to this market or attracting talent. Very clever move. Kudos to Bill G.

On the other hand, contrary to Ballmer, the new CEO will be under strong influence of Gates and the investors.
Ask HN: Who is the most secure domain registrar?
Following up on the recent story of the $50,000 twitter handle being lost (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7141532) I have been attempting to figure out which registrar offers the best security (e.g. multi-factor authentication) among the registrars that have solid business practices. Who do you recommend as the most secure domain registrar?
1. Some large percentage, possibly more than half, of what a doctor does is diagnosis and prognosis. This is all pure probability. Failure to understand the difference between Prob(A|B) and Prob(B|A) has nontrivial consequences.

2. Frontier areas of medicine -- oncology, psychiatry -- deal increasingly with uncommon situations that not necessarily happen with enough frequency for a doctor to develop a doctorly intuition. There are some great resources -- meta-analyses, for example -- out there, but if we keep cutting slack to practitioners and let them follow the word of "thought leaders", medicine becomes the prey of ideological waves and conceptual fashions.
BitTorrent Sync Used to Create Decentralized Web Browser
In the US, at least, I hold that outside of a few small rural departments, there are no good cops, full stop.

Because the so-called good cops defend, with silence at minimum, all but the most extreme behavior of the really bad cops.
Introducing ASUS Chromebox
I think I would enjoy Facebook Paper a lot more if it removed the Facebook news feed entirely. I think it should focus solely on news, not the fact that your friend changed their status or profile picture or whatever. Although, if I want to read non-Facebook news stories, I would probably just use something like Flipboard.
No. It is not. We have developed a light weight and easy to use Framework
only god nodes.
That's the same reason I want to switch to developing for Windows. Except, I don't consider Unix the ideal standard anymore. For instance, PowerShell isn't a real unix shell, but it seems to be a type-safe version of one with first-class access to the platform's first-class API, which is exciting.
To slightly nuance that, given the fact that he had already tried "talking to them" (to death actually, he's bent over graciously--first via support, escalating to discussions with the CEO and ultimately an unanswered demand letter)... in this case continuing to "talk to them" means "sue them", right?

I mean, that was his question. All he seems to have left is suing. He was asking if he had another option. And, of course the other option is "raise a stink on HN/interwebs". But that's a luxury reserved for "hackers"/VIPs, not lowly customers.

PG told him to sue DrChrono.
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This is how the first thread should have been resolved. Great answer and I really hope both sides benefit from the following conversations.
Aren't hackers notorious for being interested in things like lockpicking? And that interest is based on an interest in taking apart a system? Shoplifting has worse consequences than recreational lockpicking, but I could see it having some of the same system deconstruction appeal if approached in the right way (not advocating shoplifting, by the way)
If you install both, you can use both side by side. F12 for firebug, Ctrl Shift K for built in.
Your auditors are asking about specific software???

Ours never did. Processes, yes, specific brands? No way.
Microsoft's handle on language development (thanks to Anders Hejlsberg) is the best in the industry.
Exploring CRUTEM4 with Google Earth
Semi-related: I've been using the Nightly and have come to really enjoy Australis over the current UX/UI scheme in the other builds. To that end, I'm excited for Aurora to get boosted up to 29 and, hopefully, get Australis along with it.
It's possible that Itanium outsold POWER but only if you ignore PowerPC which was its most successful commercialization. As an architecture it existed not only in servers but in in PowerMacs, Xbox 360, PS3, Gamecube, Wii and in embedded architectures.

Itanium was a piker compared to POWER.
Sugu Sougoumarane from YouTube discussed his Go-based "Vitess" MySQL scaling system (https://github.com/youtube/vitess) at FOSDEM over the weekend. The system powers every single youtube.com page load with sub-2ms latency and each instance serves ~50kqps (with more than 500kqps globally). That's serious systems programming in Go, and it works great for them.
Asusgate: A story about thousands of crimeless victims
The unfortunate reality of many YC companies is that talking to them doesn't solve the issue until it becomes a PR crisis. At that point, the company usually falls all over itself to handle the customer's needs and loudly proclaims that it really wasn't their fault that a customer's complaints somehow went un-addressed for months despite multiple appeals by the customer to multiple employees and executives.

That's something that could be reasonably expected from a mega-corporation which has to deal with multiple layers of bureaucracy, but even in those situations a direct appeal to an executive officer usually gets the issue resolved. Getting the runaround is not something anyone should have to deal with when the company has a handful of employees and minimal, if any, layers of middle management. After all, isn't one of the primary benefits of being a startup supposed to be that the company is more responsive to customer needs?
The first chart is more than enough to answer "no" to the posed question because there is no positive linear correlation between the two variables. (correlation between $ seed and $ Series A is close to zero)
Managing Node.js Callback Hell with Promises, Generators and Other Approaches
Supplementing unreliable warning systems - they will be unreliable given that you'd have to wait for older cars to be cycled out of service - for good driving habits seems like an obvious recipe for disaster.

Even among good drivers, I doubt many people really want another device competing for their attention when they're trying to make a decision.

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So, I suspect somewhat more sinister motives. It would be a lot simpler for law enforcement if they could just stick up small stations to monitor everyone within an area, rather than having to put speed cameras and so on there, and it would allow other behaviours than speed to be automatically analysed.
Could Mobile Banking Apps Help You Spend Less?
Are Art Professionals Afraid of Fair Use?
When will these articles learn that the fact that we are graduating enough STEM students, but still have a shortage of those who can fill the jobs, is a symptom of the science education crisis. No one would argue we aren't graduating enough students (or lawyers, etc). We still have a general education crisis, and a severe legal education crisis.
I realised yesterday that "yield" in Python (and I guess javascript) is kind of a baby continuation (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continuation). It can be used to create coroutines and turn async code into sync (looking) code. Really powerful.

Anyone interested should learn what continuations are (in Scheme).
Sadly, what you need is heat differential. Icy vacuum is next to useless here. Hence the large radiators...
Prototyping with Origami
The 286 really had a lot of technical issues and IBM's apparent reluctance to embrace the 386 did hurt them in the long run (as well as MCA). Yet, for software built for OS/2, the 286 was just fine. Its main problem was dealing with DOS programs that wanted direct access to hardware. The fact that developing for OS/2 was painful and expensive was not helping. IBM made a lot of stupid decisions and Microsoft benefited greatly from those decisions.
Why not build on an existing framework?
> It really depends on your definition of sexism, which is an ambiguous term.

Sexism is very clearly defined, so clearly that it can and does appear in the law, laws that, under our constitution, cannot exist if they contain any ambiguity.

I can't believe you don't get this. Researchers take a resume and present it in two forms -- for example, in one resume the name is "Andrew Jones". In the other, the name is "Andrea Jones". NOTHING ELSE IS CHANGED. One letter of one word is changed, and suddenly the applicant is unqualified. That is sexism defined.

> I highly recommend you read the article.

I read the article, you very clearly did not. Above you believed that the resumes differed, that they actually described different people with different qualifications. That wouldn't be science. In science, for maximum effect, you change as little as possible and measure the outcome.

The study measured, not reality, but people's attitude toward reality.
The FAA Shuts Down Beer-Delivery Drone
The venom is understandable in any competition (and the battle to build a working, useful quantum computer is a major competition between both companies and universities) where just about every knowledgeable person is convinced someone cheated.
Right now firefox beats the pants off chrome for memory usage - that is why I'm using it.
Update: We just cleared the licensing issue. Ospari would be released under MIT License.
Which is also a reason the thread should have been killed. If posting here works for customer service, this turns into a different kind of forum.
I enjoyed lookback a lot, although it didn't seem to do much besides randomly select posts (the statuses it selected were not my most liked, and half the photos were of other people).
You're right, but then you'd need to programmatically determine the video bitrate in the torrent client, or integrate it with the video player. Either way is a pretty heavyweight solution.
Son of Big Board Father Is No Friend to NYSE
You're welcome to your opinion. There's a reason this thread is currently the 2nd thread on the HN front page.

EDIT: Props to xenophanes for calling me out on my laziness. I've described more in depth the reasons for the attention called to this debacle: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7178857
Also: The success of BYOD suggests that things aren't quite so fixed. And seriously, if you're concerned about viruses, you're going to REQUIRE Microsoft products?
What PG is saying is that HN can be used to criticize anyone except companies backed by YC. That's unacceptable.
DEA redacts tactic that's more secret than parallel construction
FC vs. FCoE in Solid State Storage Environments
A friend of mine had (is having?) a fling with Acme [1]. He's currently working on making his spinoff web-based to leverage CodeMirror and make things prettier. In his words: "it's a prettier acme in javascript with more automatic terminal integration".

I'm trying to get him to release the source, but he'll never think it is 'ready'. Hopefully Acme's interesting enough for now.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acme_%28text_editor%29
Yeah, this is what makes it kinda silly. If he can post it via a proxy blog post, he should be able to post it directly. If someone else blogs about the closure of the thread, and posting that is allowed, then the original complaint should be allowed. *

I'm a firm believer in "if it is allowed while jumping through hoops, either allow it altogether, or ban it altogether".

(* Same thing about choosing descriptive titles for posts btw.. If posting a proxy blog post with a comment is ok, then posting directly should be ok, too)
How Pandora Nabbed More Than 70M Monthly Users with Just 40 Engineers
At this point it's not even necessary. It's like saying Google us.
Actually, as with d3, you can develop your own network visualization layouts.

The main difference is that sigma only deals with graphs drawing, so it deals without effort with drag and drop (mouse or touch), scaling the graph to the screen, smooth zooming (with mousewheel or pinch)...
The stimulus is a spectrum. Discretizing wavelengths for simplicity of explanation, the stimulus is a vector where each element specifies the amplitude at each wavelength.

The color bar of rainbow colors is a sub-sampling of this spectrum where only one element is taken at a time. In other words, those are monochromatic colors. Alternatively, each point in the rainbow is obtained by multiplying a delta function with the stimulus and integrating over the wavelengths. This sub-sampling cannot possibly cover the entire color space. In fact, the majority are missing, including magenta which is not a monochromatic color.

The human eyes also sub-samples this space. However, it does not use delta functions. Each cone has its own vector (or more precisely a function of wavelength) and the sensed amplitude is integral of this vector multiplied by the stimulus. This is very much a dimensionality reduction problem where given the spectrums of natural objects around us, nature chose a smaller space that allows distinguishing the objects as much as possible.

Quite obviously, the sub-sampling done by the human eye also leads to loss of information. There would be spectrums which are different but would map to the same perceived color. See metamerism: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metamerism_%28color%29

Electronic-displays use RGB because those three colors then cover a good percentage of the colors human eyes can perceive. When more than three primary colors are used in the display technology to enhance color gamut, etc., avoiding metamerism issues becomes an interesting concern as we need to make sure colors which should appear the same do not appear different given that the cone response curves varies somewhat between humans, varies with age, and also surrounding illumination can impact the two rendered colors in different ways.

See also my older related comment on the topic: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5931005
Go is not "controlled by a large corp". Sure, its development is led by a small core team employed by Google, but there are hundreds of contributors from outside Google and more non-Google committers than Google committers.

Go has a BSD-style license (http://golang.org/LICENSE) and includes a patent grant (http://golang.org/PATENTS) meaning that it is truly owned by the community. This is very different to C# (which is more or less entirely a commercial venture) and Java (of which Oracle aggressively defends its ownership).
If "customer service" needs to be elevated to this level, something is severely wrong.