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Very good. I'm using EpicEditor, but it is so much full of options that don't work as expected, like files, themes and saving to localStorage. I'll probably switch to some simpler alternative.
With ECMAScript 6 around the corner, let's confuse everyone by inventing a new syntax. Makes perfect sense.
To be clear, Win-P is an old keyboard shortcut (it lets you switch monitor output -- I use it to disable my second monitor when I want to play a full-screen game, and enable it again when I'm done), it just has a Metro look now. Win-Q is insanely useful, though, pulls up search and you can just type the name of the application you want.

Metro in Windows 8 was entirely useless for desktop use, especially multi-monitor use, Metro apps could only use one monitor at a time (so you couldn't run, say, the Netflix app on one monitor and then pull up the Start menu or the Metro version of IE on the other) and putting multiple Metro apps on the same screen was clunky at best. Windows 8.1 made this much better -- you can put multiple Metro apps on a monitor, and run Metro on all your monitors at once. You can even run a mix of Metro apps and the desktop on a monitor, so you can run a Metro IM client in the side of the screen and have Word up in the rest of the screen. There's such a paucity of Metro apps right now that I haven't found much use for this, though, but if there WERE Metro apps I wanted Windows 8.1 makes it possible to actually enjoy working with them.
If he really wanted privacy he should have used cash.
Would a person then be entitled to wander around your property looking for you?

In the UK, they sort of would. You can wander onto most private property until asked to leave, as long as you do not break anything. Only if you then refuse to leave is there any issue for a court or the police. Of course, if you just wander into someone's house and they attack you as an intruder, then you are not going to get much sympathy, however just the act of trespass is not inherently illegal. Other than in Scotland, where it gets a little more complex, on open ground I think trespass is criminal but defined as breaking camp, so walking around is still fine.
LOL they didn't (and it was an army surplus machete) :)
This is why decimal floating-point formats are kind of a disaster in general and are only implemented in relatively rare hardware intended for financial uses. In many of those applications, using a decimal fixed point representations is better – i.e. counting in millionths of pennies (you can still count up to ±9 trillion dollars with 64 bits). But yes, a technical comparison of different decimal formats would definitely be interesting. I suspect that despite the occasional failure of intuitiveness, we're far better off with binary formats and better programmer education.
"Oh man, I have to make a snarky response, but first I have to Google for that XKCD comic that totally makes my point for me..."

Not only can I see myself in that vividly, I was thinking there should be an easier way to filter XKCD comics by (life) situations. And I've found http://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/Category:Comics_by... that's close to what I was looking for.
Alas, I have but one downvote to give for this empty dismissal.
Once upon a time I was traveling between Hong Kong and Shanghai on a sleeper train and had a conversation with a Chinese traveler about their trains, he thought the reason for the great train roll out (this was about 5 years ago) was that it was both feasible and affordable to do it at this point in history because in the future it would become increasingly much more expensive and difficult (in terms of land owner/user opposition) to lay the track.

In the USA you're already in that future, the Chinese aren't there yet and they're taking advantage of it while they can.
I didn't mean appointment reminding in general - which is a good thing obviously. But I thought it was a long time solved problem by other means (and not necessary by office manager), be it some "enterprise" calendar or todo software which are integrated in most of the "enterprise"/business software products, etc...
ah, damnit!
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I develop and sell Smart Shooter.

http://kuvacode.com

Its a traditional desktop app (windows, mac), but only sold online via our own website or the mac app store. I created it about 4 years ago, and work on it solely in my spare time. In fact I'm employed full time at a major tech company but this I keep separate.

To claim its profitable is a bit misleading, because of cause the major cost in developing such software is my own time. I've incorporated as a limited company here in Finland but do not pay myself a salary, so the only costs to the business are web hosting and occasional hardware purchases (computers, cameras).

I started this as a project for personal interest; at the time I was working as a software engineer developing financial trading software. Smart Shooter was a good way to develop something that covered both my interests in graphics programming and digital photography, to alleviate the borebom from my day job.

So for me its been successful, its still an pleasureable hobby, allows me an excuse to play around with the latest cameras, and brings in some pocket money. It doesn't generate enough revenue that I could quit my main job, but the possibilities could be there if situations change.
I got excited because the title led me to think the machine somehow went directly from water to wine with no additional ingredients.
The new TED.com
He stated in his denial he'd not heard of "bitcom" until his brother told him about it 3 weeks ago, so if it transpired he'd used it in 2011 then that would prove that he wasn't being entirely truthful.
Denorms basically don't occur except in very specific numerical cirumstances, so everybody treats these things as unique.

This actually had a significant impact on the implementation of IEEE754 on the DEC Alpha chips. The DEC Alpha microprocessors used a software trap whenever a denormal was encountered.

This was a fine idea--until you start emulating an x86 and discover that one of the big programs you want to support--AutoCAD--buries things into denormals and your performance is dog-slow.
I just subscribed. You should add a meta description / opengraph description / image so I can share it on facebook and have the description of the website show up properly rather than just be blank.
I meant the IEEE 754 binary32/64 standard that has been implemented in hardware everywhere since the early 1980s and is what we all actually use on a day to day basis – the usage of which is what Crockford thinks is the biggest mistake in JavaScript. I now see that the above post was asking specifically about "IEEE 754 decimal", which I missed. Yes, there are multiple representations of many numbers in that too. This is why non-binary floating-point representations kind of suck.
India of 1977 is different to India in 2014. So I think, it is not worth to go back in the past.

Ikea is looking for space to start stores in India. Please search in Google. Your information seems to be outdated.
https://www.google.co.in/#q=ikea+in+india
India's FDI in retail policy wants to protect its SME's. Elected Govt. is supposed to do that to distribute wealth across society.

India is still good place for business. It is complex, slow moving compared to west, chaotic at first glance but any one can adapt easily.
What are you guys think about these 'comments are more important than code' languages/dialects. I'm kind of sceptical because comments can lie but code cannot.
Is “connected” our next level of sexual happiness?
I think it was voted on. That was the most popular week selected.
I think that Martin is refering to the attention that the wasup adquisition had here in Spain and how little is getting in the spanish media, a Spanish start up that's selling for that amount.
I bet most of wine you can buy in Russia is made with a machine like that :facepalm:
That very well may be the case.

About half the developers I know are using modern tooling (version control, IDEs, virtual machines images, testing tools, etc). The other half are very much in the 'ftp/notepad++' or maybe 'sublime text' camp.

Trying to convince people that they should be using version control even if they're the only developer on a project is usually like swimming through molasses.
There is a remarkable variety of gut flora.

Some is known to help people put on weight. Some is known to help people stay at a normal weight.

It's an interesting extra method to tackle obesity, because what society is trying so far doesn't seem to be working.
Rule #1 can be included in #2 with currying.

I use [ ] as "invisible" separators, to make clear what is evaluated first, and #%If as a core version of If, perhaps programmed in another language.

In the expression

If (x<3) {console.newline;}

First, the If part is curryied

[If (x<3)] => [function(x) {#%If (x<3, x)}]

And then we have

[function(x) {#%If (x<3, x)}] {console.newline;}

Applying rule #2

[function(x) {#%If (x<3, x)}] ({console.newline;})

That is equivalent to

#%If (x<3, {console.newline;})

I'm not sure if this approach work and handle all the corner cases.
Indeed; 'New York to Key West' doesn't really give the mental picture it's looking for.

NYC is also about 1200 miles (give or take 100) from Houston TX, Baton Rouge LA, Tulsa OK, Lincoln NE and Fargo ND.
Yeah, comment-centric languages are not my preference, as over-commented code tends to happen way more often.
تحصين قوي جدا جدا جدا بسر ايات الحفظ وحروف اوائل السور
Decades from now, the optimal solution will be the Hyperloop for distances under 1000 miles, and an electric supersonic jet for distances over 1000 miles. Provided that nothing bad happens to Elon Musk and he decides to found companies to make those things a reality.
The problem is that isn't making the news even in Spain..
The very best edge of all
>The only differences from literate coffeescript[0] I see from this demo are that the var keyword is back and print is a macro for console.log.

It has more than that. Check the buttons down at the bottom. It has switch statements that look for a true expression, preprocessor macros, sugar for appending to classes (like Objective-C's categories), sugar for shimming, and "nice functions" for avoiding callback hell.

That's a lot more than you get with literate CoffeeScript.
There isn't a specific one, or at least not one I'm aware of (I guess that's enough for me). Of course, a sale of a Spanish company for 9.5 b€ is big enough that normal outlets should at least mention it.
1) Why own cars at all? It's way more efficient to have a common pool of cars that you rent when you need them. I actually think that owning in general will eventually be replaced with loaning from shared pools. It's way better from planning, economy, ecology and maintenance perspectives.

2) Most of the breakthroughs were because of new levels of power or precision. Here we're facing a totally different kind problem, one of complexity. That's something we have no tools to deal with and no idea of even how those tools might look like. It's not like flight, or Internet, or artificial viruses.

3) Did you really just link me to a device from a sci-fi show? :-D The thing is that mass production can use optimizations, shortcuts and logistics that can never be used by custom production. Also, injection molding will always produce smoother shapes than 3D-printing, because the latter is discrete.

Also, ecologically speaking, it's better if people just own a set of mass-produced, high-quality goods than continuously print new stuff on their own. There's too much stuff in the world already.
At first I thought this was about some trademark infringement lawsuit with a Blackberry clone called "Bloackberry". Then my eyes jumped to the non-misspelled words...
Key Ingredient For Success: Psychological Management
Me neither. If I had shares in Vodafone or ONO, maybe I'd celebrate.

ONO a startup? Ha! I think I've known about ONO before I even got a modem.
You are right. I forgot about the interaction between the exponent and the significand. The lack of a canonical representation is still quite problematic.
Impressive beautiful page.

Looks like a remarkable interpretation, or btc/alt-currency net original creation.

Not sure what it does --that's Ok, I like the mystery.

Before someone gives you their email, shouldn't they know what is being downloaded, and that it is compatible with their OS or browsers, or what?
Another difference: air travel usually require 3-4 hours more for travel to and from airport, check in, baggage claim.
Railroad travel requirements usually a lot simpler and railroad stations usually located near center of city.
Liquor is distilled, so the only way you could customize it to produce liquor would be to add a considerable amount of hardware to it. In the US, doing so would be illegal without a license.
Yes. The government is not supposed to threaten massive fines for companies wildly improving the quality of life for its citizens. It lessens the incentive to build great products and bring those products to an international market.

"Other countries do it" is not an excuse that makes something ethical or right.
In short, yes. Way more expensive. Also, 3D printers cannot print most of the useful stuff. Even if they were be able to print electronics - people just don't need new electronics that often.

Still, it's a great toy for all kinds of hackers and makers. :)
Let's call it Jesus Machine
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More like Blackberry "undertook" WP in US, since its decline rate has been much faster than WP's growth rate in US.

Sites like TheVerge [1] said exactly the same thing when it happened worlwide, that WP overtakes BB, even though this is how the market share charts were looking like back then:

http://static3.businessinsider.com/image/5192a95969bedd70220...

As you can see WP's growth was snail pace back then, yet it "overtook" Blackberry. We're seeing the same kind of misleading headlines now, I guess because they get more hits and shares from Microsoft fans. Journalism at its finest.

[1] - http://www.theverge.com/2013/5/16/4336298/windows-phone-over...
> anti-antibiotics

Wouldn't you call that simply "biotics"? Or maybe "pro-biotics"?
This article handwaves over a few key things. The first half of the article discusses how antibiotics in feed make animals grow bigger. However, the whole point of feed supplements is to give animals more muscle and less fat [1], since that's what customers pay for. So antibiotics in animals go the exact opposite direction from obesity in humans.

Second, antibiotics in feed are pretty much constant, while humans hardly ever take antibiotics. The article mentions children take antibiotics once a year on average, but the median must be very different from the mean. (I expect a few children take antibiotics very often, and most children take them very rarely.) In addition, if taking antibiotics once a year had the same increased growth rate effects as putting them in feed constantly, farmers would do that for the cost saving.

Overall, this article seems to pad out a hugely speculative idea to try to make it seem more plausible.

(I should know better than to get involved in a nutrition discussion on HN.)

[1] A random reference explaning how antibiotics improve meat quality by causing more protein and less fat: http://animalsmart.org/feeding-the-world/growth-promotant-us...
I lost interest at "cable company"
Even people who don't have a middle name can have problems on some sites.

Not to mention

Admiral Sir Reginald D'Arcy ffolkes-O'Harris

And in college I knew someone with a name very similar to the name in the article, a "normal" first name, and family name <adjective> <animal>.
How does the type guessing and the type system in general work?
As a software developer, I want people to use my stuff. Once over the hurdle of writing something that people might find useful, I have to choose a license. When it's a library, I usually choose something without much restrictions, like MIT or Apache v2, or else developer will just go look elsewhere.

However there is a project which is a full blown application, and I went GPLv3, because I want anybody to be able to use it, or fork it. However it would bother me if someone was using this project to earn money, as I personally forfeited deriving any income from this project (not even donations). Apparently GPLv3 allows commercial use (I didn't realize that when I picked the license).

What license would best match my concerns?
I run a small business called Cram Fighter (http://cramfighter.com) that is targeted at students (mostly medical) that are preparing for standardized exams. I got the idea after watching my wife preparing for her board exams and it seemed like a perfect little project to learn iOS programming. Initially my goal was to do earn maybe $5k annually, but now I'm on track to surpass my salary as senior developer by next year.

You'll find a lot of one-person businesses targeting tiny, but profitable, niches like mine. What's great about it is that often when you find a tiny opportunity, it opens up a lot of other problems that need solving that you would never find otherwise. It's also a great way to learn the skills of running a business in a relatively stress-free way (at least compared to running a startup).

The only downside is if you're anything like me, you'll get antsy working on small projects and yearn to tackle bigger, more ambitious problems. Sometimes 1-person companies have the potential for turning into a company with startup-like growth, sometimes not. I'm still trying to figure out how far I can take my company.
It's priced on value to user, not component cost.
and the Computers that run the station's critical systems are 486 based. whats your point?
On a marketing note: I get why they've chosen this name, but I think it's a bad idea. It raised all of my snake oil red flags initially.

I checked out the page and it does seem like a real project, and could be pretty cool. But I think attaching a hyperbolic "miracle" name to an otherwise interesting home winemaking device hurts their credibility.
It's easy to blame media "blindness" and inattention -- here, apparently both in Spain and on the wider Web -- but to me it just boils down to the economics of attention. If the author is right and "nobody cares" then the lack of press is pretty explainable.

In today's ad-driven world, journalists are tacitly rewarded (at the very least) for Web traffic. As such, the coveted beats are the ones that drive guaranteed interest -- Apple being the traffic gorilla when I was a staff writer. The stuff closest to consumers (porcelain) on the whole drive more interest than infrastructure (plumbing).

Starting out in the Valley I got beats like Seagate and storage (after getting the assignment, another editor joked that it was "borage"). I remember envying the consumer electronics writers for their traffic, but was always more of a pluming guy myself.
I won't call an MSO/Cable company news as boring. Why the American industry creates so much attention is due to the dominance of American Technology Sector and American media firms. The MSO sector has lot of potential for innovation with the rising sectors such as Home Automation, Gigabit fiber or to sum it up (Internet of Things). When it comes to technology, even Nokia the most respected handset brand of the pre-smartphone age, was acquired by Microsoft, an American firm. Unless Europe gets more flexible with its tech industry (like encouraging Kickstarter/Ycombinator type firms) they would never gather the focus like the US.
Why Lisp Still Matters
How about NY to Boston, Philly, D.C, Atlanta or Miami? There's no reason to pick a distance then look at a map and say there's no where at 1200 miles where I'd want to go. In fact, most people would argue that 500-600 miles is the sweet spot for HSR. Otherwise, flying wins.
It helps because 0.1 + 0.2 produces 0.30000000000000004 for 64-bit floats – so at least you can see that this value isn't the same as 0.3. In Ruby you just get two values that print the same yet aren't equal, which is way more confusing. I agree that printing the minimal number of digits required for reconstruction does not help with explaining why 0.1, 0.2 and 0.3 in 64-bit floats aren't the real values 1/10, 2/10 and 3/10.
This is typical of government-run or funded programs. The problem is that the word "startup" doesn't have a universally agreed upon definition and different people have radically different understanding of what a "startup" is.

When a governemnt official talks about "startups" (which they typically spell "start-ups" with an hyphen), they almost always mean "recently-created small business". And they generally think that the primary focus of a "start-up" is to generate a profit by selling a product or a service and to hire employees as soon as they can. I.e. when they say "start-up", what they really mean is: "traditional small business".

When people in the tech startup world talk about "startups", they generally mean something very different. PG's definition of a startup [1] is probably what best matches what most people in the startup world mean by "startup". And that's radically different from a traditional small business.

It's not to say that tech startups are better or worse than traditional small businesses. They're simply different, they work in very different ways, have very different life cycles, needs and purposes and need very different kinds of support.

Unfortunately, few government people understand the difference between a small businesses and a tech startups. In fact, very few people in general even know there is a difference. Tech startups are a very weird kind of business that most people, even in the business world, don't really get. Which always leads to this confusion.

Governments launch these support programs aimed at "start-ups", which are in fact aimed at traditional small businesses. Tech startup people get confused by the use of the word "start-up" and assume that these programs are aimed at tech startups.

Tech startup people then complain about the non-sensical requirements of these programs, poor advice given to entrepreneurs and completely inadequate support provided. Which was to be expected since, despite their name, these programs aren't aimed at tech startups at all.

[1] http://www.paulgraham.com/growth.html
Let's call the store they sell it in the Christ Complex.

... I'll show my self out..
An anti-antibiotic would work against antibiotics instead of promoting biotics. Perhaps it would have a similar effect in the end, but the means are different.
I read it as "internet companies should remember real life rights have precedence and they can't hide behind TOS 'contracts'". I wish there were more reports like that, this is really important.
Nice Linux News Site Aggregator
1. Type guessing:

- if you have a "class Token" and later do "var token", the type is guessed by name affinity.

- if you do:

token = .getToken()
other = token

the type of "other" is guessed from assignment (:Token)

2. Type annotations: you directly state type

var other:Token
var read: Token array

The compiler does a "pseudo-execution" of the AST, guessing types and validating property access.
Intro to Haskell for Erlangers
We do fraud detection on top of the fraud detection your bank AND the US banking system already do.
This is cool. I live in the Methow Valley and the MVSTA should use this!
Wow, you make your living from your youtube channel?
Unfortunately, there's no really good way of establishing that two pseudonyms are not held by the same person, in a decentralized system. Doubly so when legal enforcement isn't available. Of course abuse is harder the more arbitrators you incorporate, but expense and difficulty are higher as well.