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Ask HN: why are devices with the Flappy Bird app fetching $1k+ on ebay?
So I need to ask your opinion, the flappy bird app creator pulls their app during its success this weekend, then people list their devices on ebay for astronomical prices....seriously, am I missing something? http://news.cnet.com/8301-17938_105-57618649-1/$100k-used-flappy-bird-phones-not-really-flying-so-high-on-ebay/?subj
Many design studios use Dreamweaver, because it's part of the Adobe suite and it has an interface most of them are familiar with.

You are aware that you can "hand-code" in Dreamweaver? Along with the WYSIWYG editor, there is a normal code editor.
If anyone from sympy is reading this:

simplify(exp(x)/exp(x - 1))

is causing a runtime error:

RuntimeError: maximum recursion depth exceeded while calling a Python object
"I had all topics covered in a professional manor ..."

Sigh...
This thing is so experimental that it may just make your head explode... Especially if you forget your password, as that is the only way to recover any stored Bitcoins!
Huh, looking at https://github.com/cryptocat/cryptocat/issues/581: "Ciphertext retrieval by joining from non-Cryptocat clients" -- isn't that just expected behavior, or am I missing something here?
Valve's SteamWorks VR API
Why is he so super elitist about "hand coding" a website?

I doubt he ever manually allocated memory in his life.

Being elitist always sucks no matter how awesome you are... but come on we are talking about a webdesign competition, not some x86_64 assembly hacking event. This is ridiculous.
Could you provide links to your site and the "dreamweaver" site so we can judge the quality of their work and yours?

By the way, are you fully aware of what DreamWeaver entails? we use it on smaller projects all the time, simply as a great code editor with some convenient features (incl. library includes, test servers etc etc). It works well for hand-coding, so use of DW doesn't need to imply anything more than which code editor the other team preferred.
This is satire. It has to be. Right?
Would this interfere with RescueTime? I like having the metrics of which app I use the most but want to block things using Focus.
First version of Theming with Ghost book is released
A bit of a complex question, depending on how you word it.

The federal government cannot require a state's agents to affirmatively assist it in carrying out actions or duties that the state doesn't authorize. Broadly that's known as the "anti-commandeering doctrine".

But a state also cannot specifically impede the federal government, for example by harassing its agents or preventing their ability to operate. This is true even if state agents claim to be enforcing state law in doing so, because under the Supremacy Clause of the U.S. Constitution, federal law (and its enforcement) trumps contrary state law.

Neither doctrine has its full boundaries or interactions precisely clarified, as you might guess.
No one should allow the tools used to create a website to influence which one they would choose as best... and this is virtually guaranteed at a "Future Business Leaders of America conference".
Where does the BBC keep this streaming content? I can't find it anywhere on their sporting site.
$25
Wow. Egotistical much? 2nd place ain't bad. And who cares how it was made? I have just as much disdain for working in Dreamweaver, but if the site works, it works. The user doesn't care that your source code is prettier.
"Could not connect stream" ?
Independent infrastructure is a good idea but not always feasible for everyone. At OpsGenie, to resolve this problem, we came up with a solution we refer as "heartbeat monitoring". This basically allows monitoring tools to send periodic heartbeat messages to us that indicate that the tools is up and can reach us. If we don't receive heartbeat messages from them in 10 minutes, we generate an alert and notify the admins. Not out of band management but does the trick to prevent situations like jsmeaton described.

http://support.opsgenie.com/customer/portal/articles/759603-...
lol, tons of reasons... a few off the top of my head; routes are central to EmberJS and are key to SPAs. AngularJS uses primitives as models which means that at the kind of scale we are hitting in our apps performance suffers (dirty checking 10k rows is killer) (also, computed props are easy, and we're into UAP). EmberJS' caching rocks.

But the big one is -- Google. When are they gonna pull the plug on AngulerJS, how broad is the contribution base outside of Google, and not using YUI was already a battle...
This reminds me of some of the clashes I see with many developers and some of the tech they come upon. There is a lot of disdain out there towards other developers that use/prefer stuff like WordPress, Drupal, PHP, Rails, vanilla jQuery, no CSS preprocessor, etc. However, I see a lot of developers who work in these technologies able to release solid products that work just fine.

In the end, the user doesn't care about what tech you used - they mainly care whether the site is usable, and looks clean. It doesn't matter whether you used [insert fancy tech/library/etc.]. I think a lot of us developers could learn from that and keep things in perspective, myself included.
So, maybe I have too much faith in people here, but I think this post is satire. While it's an extreme example, the attitude the author espouses- that there is one right way to do things and anyone doing otherwise is an idiot -is definitely not unheard. Hell, I've been plenty guilty of it myself, looking down my nose at someone using Eclipse as I struggle to remember 8 button long Emacs shortcuts.
The Practical, Profound Problem of Picturing the NSA
why can't we re-direct some of the trillions we spend on war and defense toward cancer research. seriously.
Netflix performance on Verizon and Comcast has been dropping for months
Nevermind, its because I was using the webcam on a different window (Google Hangout).
The Master of The world: ‘Rothschild Banking Dynasty’
Increase? I would have sworn the last two licenses I bought in September were the same price listed on the Haystack site right now.
A very well-written reply. I think you got to the core of the issue: just more ammunition for guns that are used to firing off on the social justice issue several times a day.
Uruguay isn't really a developing country. Not like India, that's for certain. Anyway, the health care system in the US isn't something that was willed into existence. It came from a series of accidents and circumstances.
I'm with you, I finished wondering if I was being trolled.
You may want to check OpsGenie heartbeat monitoring, or essentially implement the same idea yourself. Our heartbeat monitoring expects to receive messages (via email or API) from monitoring tools periodically and notifies you via push/SMS/phone if we don't receive it over 10 minutes.
I think this pattern is very useful to ensure that alert notifications is working.
You Won’t Believe How Much Money We Wasted On Bad Hires In 2013
If you can completely obliterate your margin like that just to make a single sale, I suspect prices are too high and you'd end up doing better by just offering the product at $400.
MongoDB is a clever wrapper to a mmap()'d hash table of linked lists of BSON documents that's naive as anything but fast as long as everything's always in memory. (Well, "fast" is a strong word where Mongo is concerned. "not horribly slow".)

MOST other NoSQL solutions actually do things like treat their index differently than their bulk data so that it isn't accidentally swapped out, ruining performance. Many also do important things like supplying durable writes. (Your data may not be consistent at any one given moment, but it'll get there.)
Multilingual i18n Routes in Laravel
Exactly. Middle class in San Francisco is $250k-$500k. These type of articles are so out of touch with the reality on the ground it's ridiculous. 1 bedroom apartments with a washer and dryer, no mold, no neighbors cigarette smoke, and two parking spots _start_ at $4k per month. And that's after taxes.
Funny.

I was hand coding back in 1997 and loved Dreamweaver 1.0 because I could peel back the covers and fiddle with the underlying JS to produce code identical to what I had been typing out tag by tag.
It saddens me that some people look at travesties like this and think "fuck him, the system is great, three cheers for the status quo."

This despite the fact that any honest reading of our medical outcomes shows that America gets very average medical care, and that we pay about twice per capita what the best care in the world costs.

I mean, I know there's a lot of propaganda out there, and I know there are a lot of sociopaths who are eager to believe it... but I'd think you'd keep your dishonest pro-status-quo, anti-efficiency nonsense out of a thread like this one. Especially since your post implies an utterly nonsensical (and clearly grossly uninformed) dichotomy that the only options are pure state control or the status quo, when any informed survey of developed nations would show many other models, some of which would work well in the US.

Sadly, progress is stalled and we all suffer because there are obstructionist assholes like you, willing to ignorantly pretend that the status quo is the best in the world.
"This site is pretty good, not as good as what the other guy whipped up, but he seems like a jerk to work with and we may need additional support afterwards. Let's go with option B."
Ask HN: Prove a web site is using its open source repository
Hi all. I'm working on an idea and it requires trust. So I have a public git repo where my source code goes, and my web site deployments pick up the source from there. However, I am worried people will just think "ok, this source looks safe, but how do I know your service is using this source and not a slightly modified malicious version?"

I know with client software they can use a checksum to check this, but is there some way to do this for a web site?
The Origin of X-to-Close in UI Design
nshipster & objc.io are excellent sources.
Interestingly, the first "for dummies" book was actually "DOS For Dummies" published in 1991, followed by "Windows For Dummies". http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/For_Dummies#History
Wanna come teach said class? We always need new teachers and volunteers. Your son could TA.
Sweet layout - love it. Also while there was no hope of any client being able to decode that amount of video at one time I think it does show that the overheads of a RTCPeerConnection (without media) aren't extreme. My browser here has currently got about 60 peer connection objects open (not sure how many actually connected), but CPU and memory aren't going too crazy...
Lurking mostly, but I got this done. Your turn.
Add me to the list.

I kept waiting to see a punchline or a gotcha, but it just kept getting worse. Like one of the "nice guys" who wonders why the girl picks the "jerk".
I would absolutely have pegged this as satire, but it looks like a Eugene Ross did indeed place second in a web design competition in Sarasota.

http://www.sarasotacountyschools.net/schools/sarasotahigh/in...

Ctrl-F Eugene Ross
You can also just spin up a Linode in their UK zone and then use an SSH tunnel through that. When the Olympics are over spin down the vm and you're done.
Oh, and if you want to get a picture of what chrome (assuming you are using chrome) is doing in the background use this url:

chrome://webrtc-internals/
Which CDN do you use?
>"I doubt he ever manually allocated memory in his life."

I expect you're correct. [0]

0: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6530585
Plus one for both.
10 bucks. Wish it could be more.
I could really use this ! but seems fine (get the nice inspirational quotes) with Chrome and Safari, but Firefox still is able to get through. I am typing this using Firefox 26 ...
Dong is considered an outsider. Who is he? From Vietnam? Oh, that explains this ‘knock-off’ rhetoric people are using.

Ehh....to the extent people are complaining that it looks like Super Mario, they're complaining about infringement upon a Japanese game, so the xenophobia complaint doesn't really hold up. I thought most people hated Flappy Bird because it was difficult, pointless, and so addictive that they had wasted lots of time on it despite the other two flaws.
Wow, I would do that homework even if it wasn't required. (can't believe I just said that)
It's some teenager that will regret this article later in life. Let's not give him even more attention. It's just getting more painful for him this way.
Hey cool, I didn't know about this. Thank you!
Rails Refactoring: the aha moments
Most studies are showing it. Mobile will make a big difference in the near future though, so the balance might change quite fast.
also from the maker of cookie clicker:

idle game maker, a maker of games just like cookie clicker.

http://orteil.dashnet.org/experiments/idlegamemaker/help
It might have been helpful to distinguish between anonymity within small groups (Secret) vs anonymity in large groups (4chan).

In 4chan, particularly on /b/, there are so many anonymous participants that it's very unlikely that one person would recognize another. Someone could write something personal about another person, and it seems unlikely that anyone would care, and certainly no-one would remember. There are few real-world consequences. (I found a fun paper on anonymity in 4chan by merely searching for "studies on anonymity" http://projects.csail.mit.edu/chanthropology/4chan.pdf)

But in Secret, part of the point is to exchange information about the real world. This seems to be much more likely to have ill effects, possibly like the ones gruesome referred to in the "Rumor Monger" software at Apple that he mentioned elsewhere in this thread.

Has anyone found anything interesting about small group anonymity? Is that a useful distinction?
Since the guy didn't even include any snapshots of his design, he can't be too proud of it.
I was so excited, my digital album had it's first sale today. When I saw this post, I donated the album's proceeds. Here's to making the world a better place!
What is the advantage of adding braces to Python? I find Python's indentation based syntax to be very readable, very close to pseudo code.
It is "change inner tag".
http://scratched.media.mit.edu/resources/scratch-curriculum-...

We are lucky and have some amazing teachers who make a new game each week in Scratch, and teach it to the kids. It's always Asteroids, or Moon Lander, or Nanacara Crash, or Pac-Man, or Flappy Bird (OMGWTFBBQ!?). Generally the best advice I can give you is to drag a roomful of kids at computers through the Scratch cirriculum MIT has created, and feel free to skip ahead if they get bored. MIT tends to be all engineery about the curriculum, and leaves no corner unexplained.

We find that if you ask kids 8-14 "Wanna learn to make videogames?" the answer is always yes. Then you just have to walk them through it in Scratch. It's super easy for them, and it does exactly what MIT designed it to do: teach kindergarteners how to code.
What version of Sympy are you using?

I get (tested Sympy 0.7.2-0.7.4):

>>> simplify(exp(x)/exp(x - 1))
E
The healthcare system is broken if you do an honest day's work and can't afford insurance...

A large segment of the United States falls in this category. In 2012, over 47 million non-elderly Americans were underinsured for health care: http://kff.org/uninsured/fact-sheet/key-facts-about-the-unin...

Also in the report: "The majority of the uninsured are in low-income working families. Reflecting the more limited availability of public coverage, adults are more likely to be uninsured than children. People of color are at higher risk of being uninsured than non-Hispanic Whites."
I browse goodreads to find new books.
You were talking to a low level employee, who doesn't know a great deal about the company he works for, and is just following a script with a specific set of rules.

I get confused when people try to reason with these guys, they can only do what they are allowed to do. They aren't going to make an executive decision and break the rules for you. You need to feel around what they can do, and don't expect miracles.
Wow. I think you need to settle down a bit and allow your ego to deflate.
But the question regarded "an entity involved in illegal activities as defined by the US Constitution," not as defined by state law.

Courts have differed, but some at least have said the NSA's actions are unconstitutional and illegal. If, say, a state is in a federal court district that decided that way, then perhaps the state could make a stronger claim that denying services is legal.
This is basically the sym() and simple() functions from Matlab, which is something I really felt wasn't nearly widespread enough. Knowing about this is fantastic and I'm going to use it heaps. Thanks!
It's kinda a suicide mission. B&N is very nicely fucked anyway. Not much they can do but liquidate and compensate the shareholders sometime in the next 2 to 3 years.
I tend to go soy + an extra shot, dings me for $6-ish
Could Body Odor Be Your New Password?
I've had to move my blog away from EC2 because Cloudflare was killing it (it was a very simple wordpress install). Other more custom sites on other servers are doing fine though.

They manage so much stuff that any downtime they have will make a lot of people unhappy. It already happened once (http://oneurl.me/cloudflare-broke-the-internet)
The real question is how will SBUX react to this... if they start rattling legal sabers, it could be bad. However, if they go along with the joke, then it could be great publicity. I hope they go along with the joke.
Spark School: Our first courses on electricity.
I was feeling for him & those that knew him, but purely observing, as I was well outside his circle of influence. Then I read your comment and snapped back to humanity, remembered that this was a person and I was a person and I'm doing OK enough to extend some cash, regardless of the separation of our worlds. Thanks for posting your comment.
networksolutions.com is down... As well as a large merchandising site I'm working with that's DNS goes through network solutions...
vpnuk.info has worked well for me.

The BBC's coverage is pretty good, and you can watch full events for every sport.

Its definitely worth the one-month cost to get access.
That's not what I've experienced. I have the same deal and get proper HBO Go access (including Chromecast).
Maybe the quote would make a bit more sense in context.

"A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects."
At these price points, we are only talking about problems of conspicuous consumption. (Which is a fair market to serve: the customers have money.)
I'd like to see some upgrade pricing for owners of previous versions, rather than paying full price every release.
Awww, I was kind of hoping it would somehow take small amounts of dead skin from whoever was holding it, and then somehow turn it into graphite...
The problem with your Rand-esque proposal that if we all saved and lived below our means would be rolling in it, is that we don't all have the privilege of living in state or region that provides reasonable healthcare.

Any guesses what a family policy with a $10,000 (?!) deductible goes for in Maine? $1,400. Say what? That's if you don't get insurance through your employer, which is becoming more rare everyday as insurance negotiations for employers gets stupid expensive everyday too. That's approaching 30% of my annual salary, and we'd have to pay up to $10,000 before anything kicks in.

Oh, and routine medical visits aren't covered either, so that just encourages you to not see a doctor unless you really need to. Who honestly wants to drop $200 annually to have someone with 5 years of med school tell you you're fine, but could lose a little weight.

The system is broken. If you're covered by insurance you have no right to speak to any of this. If you live in a state where individual policy pools are cost effective, you have no right to speak to any of this.

The state of the matter is that the rest of the world has figured this out. And while there will always be challenges figuring out when $84,000 for open heart surgery on a 90 year old man is warranted, we can do better than right now.

TLDR; Health care that's twice as expensive and general health that's not even in the top 25 in the world anymore. And no, people go to Thailand for really expensive experimental surgeries (done by American doctors, granted), these days.
Consider getting involved in some of the edX courses.

CS169.1 and CS169.2 draw from UC Berkeley's CS169 - Software Engineering and present a course in SaaS. They extensively use Github as the code repository and are really cool assignments to boot.

CS188.1x covers the first half of an AI subject and whilst not using github, certianly was really enjoyable from solving machine learning puzzles. It's in fact probably one of my favourite courses I've done.

It's a great way to stretch your brain by either learning new skills or revisiting old, possibly rusty ones. I try to keep doing 1 or 2 at a time.
I didn't get past this:

"And Obama's new policy says American suspected terrorists overseas can only be killed by the military, not the CIA, creating a policy conundrum for the White House."

So much WTF in one sentence.
Emotionally appealing as it is, at this stage such legislation has about as much chance of being implemented as for someone nuking all the NSA facilities from orbit.

Though I actually wish that could happen. It's the only way to be sure.

You know, I can imagine a sequence of quite possible events over the next few years, in which some other country (Russia for eg) could do exactly that, and be hailed by a majority of Americans as a heroic savior of the American Ideal.

The NSA, and the various enabling entities behind this whole spying scandal, are not psychologically capable of backing down. This conflict is only just starting to warm up. It's going to get quite hot before resolving.
Another thing to note with this "plus HBO" deal is that it's not just an extra $5, you also have to pay an extra $6 or $7 for various "cable fees". As soon as you add cable TV the hidden fees start appearing.
It literally just snowed last night and caught everyone totally off guard (melted now).
GitHub introduces new discounts to support student coders
Yeah, sure.. :)
I had asked booth groups and they each answered, “Dreamweaver.” “Oh. Nice.”, I thought, trying to hold back any laughter that I may have had.

I'm sort of glad he didn't win (I know - aren't I a terrible person?), if that was his high-handed attitude and dismissal of a tool that lets designers make sites... by hand.
Interestingly, the problem is caused by Facebook trying to fix the problem. The hypothesized reason the clickfarms "like" random pages is to seem real because Facebook will shut them down if they don't seem real. Perhaps Facebook could drop that specific ("has the user liked other pages?") signal from their bot detection and focus on other signals. Whatever they do will likely result in some type of side-effect as clickfarms continue to strive to "seem real".
Minecraft is the single most addictive and screams-of-glee-inducing thing in our museum. No matter what we have for the kids to play, they always go "minecraft? You have Minecraft!? Can I play Minecraft!?" which is nuts, because they can play it at home, and playing at the MADE is no more interesting than at home. We don't have enough machines to network it in the museum, and the classroom doesn't have it installed.

I'm told that will change, soon. Hoping to have a club, soon.
From the description of pen at http://www.vat19.com/dvds/the-inkless-metal-pen.cfm

Warning: Not intended for children (due to small amounts of lead in the tip)

Doesn't sound like something I'd want to use too frequently.