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You're right. But it should be feasible for 'normal' chairs to simply be designed taller.
> Steam is just easier.

Well, I thought so. But for older games Steam is harder and worse than torrenting. Say, old Gothic, Thief, TES, Fallout or, say, VtM: Bloodlines all either explicitly require or just really need some manual patching to properly work on modern OSes and hardware.

GOG's nice in this aspect (pre-bundled unofficial patches, emulators and whatever), but it has US/EU-level pricing, which feels quite large in poorer countries like Russia.

So, if the game's older than 2-3 years and it's not multiplayer one, it's probably better to set a sail for The Pirate Bay. If it's recent, then Steam's probably easier.
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But if the movie wasn't worth any money to said person in the first place, then maybe it isn't such a big loss. Maybe some just do not value cinema entertainment very much even though they may watch a movie.
The question is do you want to have the shortest expected number of turns until you win, or a 100% win rate. Playing safe (min-max) is what ensures the 100% win rate, but you might be making games longer on average.
OS X doesn't have that problem when using sandboxed applications. I choose to opt out by installing non-sandboxed applications, but I know that I'm doing so and I don't install non-sandboxed stuff from people I don't trust. I also have much more accessible tools for inspecting the behaviors of applications, should I want to do so, on OS X than Android - I can do my own homework if I have a notion. (I don't expect end users to do so, but the option is there.)

And Android external storage is explicitly not for sensitive, in-the-clear data. Ever. It doesn't matter what Google "should have" done. They documented What Not To Do, and then WhatsApp went ahead and Did.
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As someone new to Node I appreciated this list of tips. The article also led me to some great additional resources that I'll be looking at tonight including Browserify. Time for a serious upgrade to my front-end app development workflow. Thanks!
I'd say this is easier in a society like Sweden, with a homogeneous culture and relatively small population.
Original, non-blogspam post: http://blog.sucuri.net/2014/03/more-than-162000-wordpress-si...

Original HN post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7374577
I watched this run for about 5 minutes and it failed at 1024 with under 5000 points. It looks pretty cool, although it defies all logic when forming the squares (it put the largest number in the middle several times).
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> I wish more people would move away from the super high cost of living areas (California, New England, ...etc) and "vote with their feet" so to speak.

This is (and has been) happening for years now. Poorer people are reverse-migrating from the denser parts of the country to the Sun Belt.

And it's a problem. The high cost of living in many of the "desirable" parts of the country is artificially created by government regulation of housing (as well as other markets, thanks to the propensity of densely populated municipalities to be run by liberals). But with the services sector growing, it makes more sense for poorer people to live near the wealthy people (who are going to be in the desirable parts of the country), since those are the people who can and will buy services. It's very different from, say, manufacturing, which is far more location-independent.

I firmly believe the problem of high cost of living can be solved through more sensible housing policies and efficient public transit (among other things). See this (quite short, at 64 pages) book for more details: http://www.amazon.com/The-Rent-Too-Damn-High-ebook/dp/B0078X...

It's the services sector that is and will continue to be the most difficult to replace with outsourcing and automation (see Moravec's paradox: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moravec's_paradox). It only makes sense that we try to create as many jobs as possible in this area. By lowering housing and transportation (and other) costs for people in the service industry, they can offer their services at a lower cost, allowing more people to purchase those services, which will drive down unemployment.
i wouldn't call it "pessimistic" at all. i think of it as respectful or not, that's it. someone who thinks i have all the time in the world to help everyone else, no matter my job or personal requirements, is simply not thinking about my time. i love helping others out, but i don't think it's right to burden another person with your favor (yes, i said burden - even if i want to help someone, it's still a burden as it has impact on my schedule, typically negative - doesn't mean i don't want to do it, but it should still be considered that way...
> I'm not sure that size of mammaries correlates with fertility.

There is a correlation with estrogen level, nutrients level, and body fat.
And this is why I desperately save money. Even though I've only been out of college for less than a year and I know my parents would graciously take me back in for as long as necessary should something catastrophic happen to my career, I'm paranoid about depending so much on a job for my livelihood.

My admittedly very lofty goal is to reach a point in my mid-30s where I don't need a job. By no means do I plan on actually retiring at that point, but I want the peace of mind knowing that my career could end and I could lead a humble, comfortable-enough life without working, probably in the midwest.
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How do you handle installation? Do you go to every site to do it yourself, or is it contracted to someone local? I have had product ideas where this was one of the hurdles I couldn't cross: how to get non-technical people to install my product on equipment I had never seen before.
Imagine the DDOS providers filing an antitrust case against google :P
And it's back. Will make for an interesting post-mortem
That's exactly it, cheers for that - the brewing book I use mentions it's a traditional method but seems to imply for Sherry, but maybe I'm just not remembering correctly. Thanks for clearing it up. I'm in half a mind to set one up for my elderflower champagne (the hard stuff ~16%ABV). But this year I'm just going to focus on method and produce as many small batches as I can.
Me too, I have this weird overlay of the game in my vision. It took a lot more of tetris to reach that effect.
Interview. I was in SF for a month and interviewed in a few places. Now I know I know nothing : )
That's illogical. We've had bank robberies for centuries, and the finance industry is doing just fine!

You would need an alternate universe with no torrenting to server as a control for your statement.
Thanks for linking back to the original. I missed that one and will read it tonight - sounds like something I'd like to learn more about.
I don't understand your argument at all. What does philosophy have to do with any of this? Are you claiming that if more people were to study philosophy, this would make the world more "moral", leading to less scientific fraud?

I see things like this as part of the cost of doing more and more advanced research at a fast pace. You are bound to have a few misses, but all in all you still make progress.
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Technically mysql has "built-in fulltext search" as well, but the implementation leaves something to be desired.
Gah. I'd just posted a really good reply to three people, then had a followup when it died. The essence of comedy is timing.
Thanks! I've always created hokey awk scripts that split on <, but I really like that xml2 output!
Sublime Text is pretty and fairly easy to use. I own a copy. However, I would seriously recommend that you take the time to learn Vim or Emacs. I've used both, extensively, and can recommend either without reservation. They have slightly different strengths and weaknesses that lead to endless comparisons, but neither one would be a mistake to learn and use as your primary development editor. I currently use Emacs.

Both Emacs and Vim require an investment in time to become productive. The break even point, where using the new editor is finally not too frustrating to use, is a few days for either one. Make that investment in time. After a few weeks the power that these editors provide will start to open up, and after a year, you will feel like no other tool for editing that can touch what you can do with these thoroughly professional tools. If you care about your craft, take the dive and learn a first class tool. They are open source and run on almost anything.
i agree, that if there was a single person to provide feedback to, i would. but compare that with a fairly consistent stream of "hey, help this person out" emails, and I think you'd come to the same eventual conclusion...

curious - how many different people have sent you favor requests?
Disagreed.
Mine is still down in Melo Park, CA
What struck me as really odd about his job was the obsession with anti-theft measures. How big is is this store that they have enough to hire a full-time loss prevention officer? I've never heard of any retail store giving employees bag-checks and pat-downs every time they entered and left the building either. It's been a long time since I've worked any job like that, but I've never heard of anything like that. From everything I've read, most major retailers have little to no protection against employee theft. Is the neighborhood they're in that bad that they have to go to these extremes, or is the owner/manager just nuts about this issue for some reason?
> $10 / hour goes a lot further in Kansas than it does D.C.

True.

> I think a lot of people could live OK in the Midwest on $10 / hour.

Ridiculously false.

Yes, the cost of living is cheaper in the Midwest, but a lot of people seem to have the idea that it's this land lost in time where a loaf of bread still costs a nickel and where gas is 25 cents a gallon.
SoundFocus (YC S13) is hiring a mobile / front-end engineer (employee #3)
We're looking for an experienced front-end engineer to take ownership of our entire user-facing software stack, from our Android & iOS applications to our online store. Our ideal candidate is passionate about developing beautiful user interfaces, and has an eye for design and detail. At SoundFocus you'll get a chance to develop a product that will have a positive impact on the lives of millions who face hearing-related challenges.

As the second software engineer, you'll take ownership of a significant part of our software stack, and will work alongside our diverse team, whose backgrounds include Signal Processing, Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, UX Design and Back-End Development. Our code-base spans the entire stack, from C and Assembly to JavaScript and Ruby, and you should be comfortable jumping in and learning new skills as necessary.

Responsibilities:

- Build user-facing mobile apps for our hardware device.

- Rapidly iterate on new designs by working closely with our designers.

- Ideate & develop features for the SoundFocus iOS, Android and Web applications, and develop our online store.

- Write well-documented, efficient and well-tested code across multiple platforms.

- Develop test automation and implement testing frameworks as needed to shorten development cycles.

What We're Looking For:

- A BS in Computer Science or equivalent experience.

- 2+ years of front-end engineering experience on iOS or Android.

- Experience with code management and release tools (Source Control, CI, Automation).

- Proficiency with at least two of the following languages (Objective-C, Java, JavaScript).

- A strong passion for music/audio.

Nice To Have's:

- 5+ Years of combined experience front end development (iOS, Android, Web).

- Prior experience developing on a web stack at scale (MVC, DB Management, PaaS DevOps).
- Prior experience writing DSP algorithms, audio
applications or with music production.

- Prior experience maintaining an e-commerce site.

The Perks:

- Located in South Park (SOMA) - 10 minutes from BART and Caltrain.

- Comprehensive health insurance including dental & vision options.

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- Pre-Tax Commuter Benefits

To apply please send your resume and a link to your code samples (preferably GitHub) to: jobs@soundfocus.com.
The key should be in the private data folder, the database belongs on the public sd card since it gets very large.
The mechanism this attack uses is interesting. So way back in the early "web 2.0" days, "trackbacks" were a big deal. You'd mention someone else's blog post on your blog, your blogging software did an XML-RPC call out to their blog, and a notification showed up in their comments that there was further discussion on your site. It was great, and contributed to the whole community feeling of "web 2.0". But it was easily exploited by spammers, who just sent out XML-RPC calls to build links.

"Pingbacks" are like trackbacks, except the referenced blog requests the URL that supposedly links back to it to verify there's actually a link there, and it appears that's what's being used to redirect the DDoS to the target server.

The obvious solution is to disable pingbacks. But they exist for a reason, and even if most people don't use them anymore there's going to be an uproar from the people who still do. Keep in mind there are still people pissed that blogrolls (links) were removed from WordPress core a couple versions ago. When was the last time you even heard the word "blogroll"?
> I wonder how much of an impact each minute that the service is down has on their uptime %.

Well, that's simple math: A year has roughly 525600 minutes, that makes one minute about 0.000190258752 % of the potential uptime.

Monthly, weekly, daily uptime calculations are left as an exercise to the reader, as well as proper calculations for leap years.
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Uhm. Can you provide some pointers for 'Cannot write GPL projects in Clojure'? That's .. new to me.
>app's private data folder

That may be the problem. WhatsApp has focused since the beginning on making their app available on as many devices as possible (They even have symbian compatibiity).

My WhatsApp database is almost 500MB, this is more than many low end Android phone's internal memory. Therefore, they decided to store the database on the SD card.

I don't think that this should be a problem had they decided to implement proper encryption on the database.

I'm not an expert and this is just pure speculation, so please, take as it is.
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I feel like this would remove all incentive.
As far as I know, it doesn't have to (shouldn't?) be updated for the current year if it doesn't change.

From http://www.copyright.gov/title17/92chap4.html#401:

If a notice appears on the copies, it shall consist of the following three elements:

(1) the symbol © (the letter C in a circle), or the word “Copyright”, or the abbreviation “Copr.”; and

(2) the year of first publication of the work

If they haven't touched this page since 2012 (totally reasonable), I think it should be 2012.

This blog post (http://www.photoattorney.com/qa-what-year-should-i-use-for-m...) also mentions that you can use a range for when it covers multiple years of publication (like a blog).
To be fair, I run a news reader and you wouldn't believe some of the hate mail I receive. I just assumed he received much more of it and not enough of the positive mail.

Also, when you're at the business end of a press blitz, you get overwhelmed and can make irrational decisions that you might come to regret.
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Hm, why the down vote? If updating when the topic in question changes isn't contributing, how are the million "twitter's down" dupes?
> I left it out on purpose, because DOS was a Microsoft platform as well.

MS-DOS was a Microsoft platform, but not DOS itself:

> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DR-DOS

Also Glide was not a Microsoft API.
The functionality this is exploiting, pingbacks, is the kind of dynamic, API-driven feature you can't get on a static site. It's a trade-off you have to be comfortable making.
It's finally back. At least for me.
thanks a lot, argv0
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In your mind, why did Snowden only release documents about bulk domestic metadata collection if the NSA is engaging in bulk domestic data collection?
The article is hinting at referential transparency for packaging and configuration.

> it's not clear to me how you know which versions of what libs to link to and stuff like that

You'd typically link to the most recent version which you've tested against, and record it's base32 hash in your package definition. That is, a package by default contains exact identities of all of its dependencies - there is no "fuzzy matching" of packages based on a name and version range. The point here is that the packager of the application should know what he is doing, and by specifying exact dependencies, he is removing the "hidden knowledge" that often goes into building software. (in many cases, this is just ./configure && make && make install, but can be massively more difficult to reproduce a build, particularly if the dependencies aren't well specified.

The Nix build system knows which version to build against because there is only one version to build against in the chrooted environment where the build occurs - which is the one whose identity you specified in the nixpkg.
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The Constitution is more authoritative than some law, which by definition is secondary to the Constitution. Congress could also pass a law that gives all of these committee members full access to everything that exists, and the CIA would be powerless to stop it without breaking the law.
Thanks.

Edit: Wait a second, none of them are answered! Unless i'm looking at a different FAQ
In order to package a Clojure project, I have to include clojure.jar which is an EPL licensed project, incompatible with the GPL. If I write my code in Clojure, but license it under the GPL, then that forces me to not package clojure.jar with it, making the installation process a huge pain.
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As an Android developer, the real hole here is being able to read the encryption key. Jelly Bean 4.3 adds the potential for "secure key storage" which only works if the user is not smart or persistent enough to break the obfuscation through using the application itself with a debugger and a rooted phone. There is no fully safe method to store keys on a device if the attacker can gain access to the same device.
Their model already exists and they have moved to it - movie theaters and netflix. The movie industry is nice an healthy, they make more money each year then the previous. The reason they fight against piracy is simple - they want more money. If there's a chance to get more money, why not try? In reality, piracy is negligible and is not worth the policing effort. More importantly, eliminating piracy altogether will not convert all pirates to movie goers. That's absurd! A pirate is a person who will either steal a movie or not watch it. Either way they are not paying for it. Only a small percentage of pirates will switch to paying customers in a perfect scenario. So in reality, the industry will enjoy a negligible profit increase - that's all. Considering their current ever increasing profits from year to year, the industry is booming. They only reason they are chasing after pirates is because they are driven by they greed and incorrect perception of 'opportunity cost'. They see a huge chunk of potential pie because they imagine that once they are able to police movie watching completely, then every pirate will be paying them royalties. This is of course far from the truth. Greedy and dimwitted they persist to believe that illusion. I wonder what positive effects move piracy has on the industry that the industry is benefiting from but are not aware of? Perhaps free word of mouth advertising on an enormous scale? I think more people pirate movies than pay which means that a immense audience is functioning as free word of mouth advertisers. What impact would eliminating this group have on the industry? Worth to think about.
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This is unfortunate, and hardly unique to entrepreneurship.

In 'Blink' Malcolm Gladwell describes how orchestras hold blind auditions, with the performers behind screens, to avoid this kind of bias.

Perhaps VC pitches should follow suit.
There are four ways, and only four ways, in which we have contact with the world. We are evaluated and classified by these four contacts: what we do, how we look, what we say, and how we say it.
-Dale Carnegie

Not much of a surprise, same goes for picking presidents and other political leaders, even CEOs. Charisma has a lot to do with leadership and persuasiveness.

That said, it always surprised me how much of our community seems to at times take pride in the disheveled, socially awkward appearance...as if it's a badge of honor or something. To me, that's just as bad as the dumb jock persona. Why not be well-rounded? Why not take as much pride in our health and appearance as we do in our intellect?
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What asset store would that be?

The article explains how the game was designed.
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Well.. you guys are not missing much. Must funny part is that #twitterdown is now trending in Twitter. :D
I'm not necessarily referring to Sponsored Tweets; brands often coordinate word-of-mouth campaigns across all forms of media too, and Twitter's downtime would hurt that too.
I read the same book after it was mentioned here on HN. Definitely worth a read and isn't particularly long either.
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Every developer has probably been guilty of not having the appropriate monitoring checks in place at one time or another. Xpect.io is a cloud hosted monitoring solution which takes less than five minutes to set up. It makes the tedious task of adding monitoring dead simple, and gives you the confidence that everything is working as expected at all times.
The funding in Japan flows through a senior researcher who organizes the research for an entire department. This is very different from the US where each PI applies to the funding agency (NSF, NIH...).
In 2010 I attended a department level conference (~75 people) in Japan and the the Japanese graduate students explained that when you meet with someone for a few days you get to know them and their research, and then when you go to the hot springs you really get to know them. After all of the formal sessions the organizer would say, "Ok, now lets all go to the hot springs and discuss what we heard today". Clothing is not permitted in these "baths".
The goal of the above post wasn't to make fun of the culture, but it does point out the system where friends of the lead researcher get a huge advantage.
This system is also very hostile to women who are unable to participate in the part of the meeting where the real business happens.

If anyone knows this to be untrue please let me know.