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> The latest version of Microsoft's Equation Editor (and since ~07 imo) is quite good. Still a shame one needs to relearn certain symbols.

Since 2011 on Mac. The new Equation Editor was not in Mac Office 2008.

This was particularly annoying because Mac Office 2008 could load and save DOCX files -- yet you couldn't take it for granted that the equations would carry through.

My understanding is that the Equation Editor relied on some Windows components, which made it difficult to port.

As for LaTeX \symbols, I haven't encountered a problem. But maybe my equations just aren't that complicated. It doesn't always interpret LaTeX equation structure correctly, but I haven't had any problem with \symbols.
and great banter ! :D

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RJY2LXsDGe0
One of the things to keep in mind is that the guy who can implement the JVM, the girl who debugs modems, and the dude who has a PhD in theoretical physics, are (usually) all different people. Sites like this are good at surfacing the expert in threads, so that you spend time seeing people at their best. It looks like everyone is brilliant in everything, but in fact what is really happening is that many people are brilliant in their domain.
Quit boasting about your local startup 'ecosystem' in a hyperbolic way
I'd prefer buying a downloadable file.maybe 5~20 bucks for a movie. not a fan of streaming services charging per month.
This is going to mean I can't use it, unfortunately. At least not at work.

A lot of businesses don't allow sharing work-related information with other businesses.
Are their no other testable aspects of GR that would show gravity changes to have finite propagation speed?
I'm watching for Tesla to produce a car that I can take to the ski slopes without worry. The improvements in electric cars and infrastructure (I'm seeing more and more charging stations pop up) have been great, so I'm hoping that I can go full electric within the next decade.
If the propagation of gravitational effects is analogous to electromagnetic waves, then maybe this is an avenue for a "gravity cloaking device" which would have interesting implications (hoverboard anyone?)
I interned on the API team this summer and it was as close to a startup as you'll find inside a company the size of Microsoft.

OneNote itself was launched over ten years ago as part of the Office suite, while the OneNote service is just launching and has been developed completely internally.
I had no idea that was even a thing. Does anyone have any resources about this, how viable is it in reality?
> My wife writes novels with it…

Honest question: what does Word offer the novelist that a plain text (or rich text) editor would not?

I've known others who have worked on a novel in Word, but I just can't imagine a workflow where binary Word documents would be better than plain text.
> But the bigger frustration is that they don't seem to really properly iterate on the libraries. They get fired out as part of a .NET major version release and get at most minimal bug-fixes beyond that.

This is definitely changing with NuGet: Immutable collections, OWIN, SignalR, etc.
They don't know what kind of money they'll be able to use if they do vote for independence. It's perhaps more than reasonable to suggest Scotland's future is uncertain.

Also, take the "Scottish" out of "Scottish Nationalism" and you're left with "Nationalism". There's no way I'm moving to a country that thinks "Nationalism" is a good thing.
So is Python 3.4 a good starting option for a newbie to learn coding or should I stick to 2.7 considering all the courses are still using 2.7?
KDE Visual Design Group: Monday Report #7
How My Startup Got Thousands of Beta Signups
With the front page littered with posts not even about technology or startups, you're really going to play that card on this submission? Really?

The fact that 2048 is open source lends itself to forks of all kinds of flavours. Including, God forbid, funny ones.
Warp drive would at the very least require an equivalent finding for momentum.
You could just as easily take the same facts and say:

"I took a flight on a 777 where there actually was a cabin fire (or at least the crew thought so). But our pilot never lost contact with the ground and we landed safely -- we certainly didn't disappear for over a week, fly far beyond our emergency landing opportunity, or perform bizarre evasive maneuvers. Just sayin'."
Generate SVG files from 3D rendered scenes (with animation)
(I've posted versions of this before...)

Someone I knew at a quasi-government organisation went to their boss to ask for more staff and/or more money because they were being overworked and had far too much to do in to a 40 hour week. Employee was told there was no money in the budget for staff/raises, but he'd have his official hours cut to 4 days a week on his same yearly salary, therefore he was getting a 20% bonus. 20%! Wow!

He still had the same amount of 40+ hours work to do, so the net result was exactly nothing.

He went back to his desk and was found a short time later slashing his wrists.

He spent some time in the local psych ward and once he was medicated and on an even keel he went back to work, but was never the same again. He just kinda pottered around in his own heavily medicated haze and not doing much of anything.
int x = 0;

x++;

would be two examples.
Should I leave my current position?
I am sure most of you will understand my reason to remain anonymous in this post, with that said:

I have been offered the following posts, and am deliberating on their acceptance, your help would be very much appreciated.

Firstly, whoami: https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=developer786

I am not a born coder, I know that, therefore,for he second post, I will be working very very hard.

Post 1
- Windows/Linux Administrator / DevOP
- Large Private Healthcare company with good financial backing / profitable.
- Job Security: Medium/High
- Environment: Working with a team of 30 2nd and 3rd line support
- No Stock options or shares
- Salary: $63K
- The role: Little development experience, lots of Linux Admin Experience, training in any sysadmin courses provided once every 2 years.

Post 2
- Developer(bash/php/ruby/python) / Linux Administrator
- Private Telecommunications company with private
shareholder backing / breaking even.
- Job Security: Low/Medium
- Environment: Working From Home
- Stock options
- Salary: $84K
- The role: Developing bespoke applications in the above languages for a range of customer requirements. Developing and extending Linux based applications.

Your help, If I don't get to thank you later, is very much appreciated.
Well, how often do you do that?

If your job involves lots of traveling, electric cars are probably not an option yet. Instead, get something with a large gas tank.
It doesn't have to be used for matrix multiplication. Other libraries might overload it as something else.
I'm also a fan, and though I agree, the last part of your comment reminded me of this sketch:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=THNPmhBl-8I
> Our logo depicts a fox (we call him Fox No. 92) as an allusion to a phrase originally attributed to the Greek poet Archilochus: “The fox knows many things, but the hedgehog knows one big thing.” We take a pluralistic approach and we hope to contribute to your understanding of the news in a variety of ways.

As commenters pointed out in an earlier New York Mag article (http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2014/03/nate-silver-int...) and that Silver alludes to via hyperlink, the "hedgehog vs. the fox" quote could be interpreted as coming out in favor of the hedgehog:

http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Archilochus

> The fox knows many tricks; and the hedgehog only one; but that is the best one of all.

I think if 538 had picked a hedgehog as its mascot, it would still make sense: it's the pundits/prognosticators who have "many tricks", whereas Silver is proposing just one good trick -- empirical data analysis -- which happens to be effective and valuable in all contexts.
> should be

Yes, but its the difference between malice and an innocent error in judgement.
I think it's a lot better than that. This Londoner moved to Glasgow about 8 years ago and lived there for 2 years, and rarely even had anyone comment on my Englishness. The only amusing thing was that I was forcibly introduced to every English person that anyone knew, perhaps they thought we'd have some kind of magical bond!
That's the "Anyone But England" phenomena:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/8733373.stm
Keeping in mind that gravity is only one of four interactions, and not even the only one working at long distances, I would have figured that it is an important component of the structure of spacetime. Have I overemphasized the other interactions in thinking this?
I'm not sure I understand your comment.

Optimizely is an awesome tool, and iOS desperately needs a better way to do A/B testing, since it isn't possible to roll new updates to your app on a frequent basis. I'm really excited to see what they've built.
Nice! This and Visual Studio are probably the pieces of software to have come out of msft.
Totally agree with these iterations of libraries. The latest craziness is their authentication story for ASP.NET. Their new libraries try to fix old design flaws but at the same time leave out functionality from the original membership, role, etc. providers. So for now, their libraries work if you're building a play website but need a lot of know how and customization for a real web application. It's frankly reckless. For someone new starting on the stack, there is at least three different API's for this and they are all supported. It becomes a cat and mouse game of following employee blogs, official blogs and official documentation (which stays at a "hello world" level) to fully understand what the gaps are.

I've decided for my own side projects to start using Django and Postgres.

I can be pretty much be confident that two years from now whatever version python, Django and Postgres are, my gained experience and knowledge will still be very relevant as the maintainers of these projects don't have a mandate of building a brand new API, or what have you every year.
It's not a huge deal. First, the referendum seems strongly probable to fail, though not by a huge margin. Second, it's unlikely that independence would have any dramatic effect on many people's software jobs in Scotland, certainly in the short term. The most likely problem would be exchange-rate issues.
Is there a migration tool for that? Because I have tried running them side by side and it gets too fragmented. But I have stuff on MediaWiki going back to 2007, so abandoning it is too painful a bridge to cross.
On the other hand, my ASUS tablet I bought over two years ago, the first generation of its kind, still works as well as it did then, which is pretty damn good, while the macbook pro I was inflicted with for work crashes regularly (as in "spinning rainbow/beachball of doom my screen is frozen I have to hard-reset" crashes). But that sleek aluminum case sure looks nice (to some--to me it looks a bit like its trying too hard to be some kind of futuristic/industrial hybrid).

I have got some news for you: the quality of parts in your Apple products isn't significantly better than those in its competitors, because they are from the same sources over in east Asia.
Deep-fried pizza.
I think they're running it to show London talent that there's a life outside the big city, and see how many they can poach.
> I say "hi", I ask about the meds he's on, I ask about his time in hospital.

Good God, that is awfully rude. Let the man have privacy. Do you want all your coworkers asking about your medical problems, in detail? Do you share your medical history and current medications with all your coworkers?
The carrier for gravity may also have wave-particle duality, via the graviton[0].

0 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graviton
There is a principle in design (it probably has a name) that a highly designed product can be polarising to end consumers.

The goal is sometimes to make a product no one hates rather than a product half the market adores and the other half hate.

A £16,000 car is (usually) a primarily utilitarian purchase so a strong polarising design ethic is somewhat risky, We are not talking about Bugatti Veyrons or even BMW M5's.
For the Mighty Mouse you just need to kind of turn it upside down and roll it on a piece of paper to clean it out. But I guess you're right, the only time I really use a mouse for an extended period of time is when browsing the internet or in one of the crappy IntelliJ things which don't seem to even allow you to close a tab with the keyboard. Apple mice are bad, but I guess I meant that my experience hasn't been significantly worse with them than with other mice. But maybe I'm just an apple fanboy :(
> The future is in the cloud though, and OneNote has always
> (for the ~3 years I've been using it) worked this way.

No, it has not always "worked this way" and it still doesn't across the board. I've been using OneNote for ~13 years (since the 2000 version). And in fact, the Windows versions continue to support offline notebooks despite Microsoft's attempts to shoehorn people onto the cloud.

A rather common OneNote usage scenario I see is a OneNote notebook on a company file share, or a shared Dropbox folder. OneNote supports multiple concurrent edits of a single notebook.

Not everyone wants everything in the cloud.
I think you're overestimating Google's capabilities a bit. How are they supposed to detect that the content is generated on the fly? If it's unique enough upon generation time, they really can't tell the difference between this site and a site with legitimate content on it.

This is the core of why Google uses things like links as a ranking signal. If they based it entirely on the content of the site, they're easily duped. While it's somewhat trivial to manipulate your backlink profile to increase your rankings, it's rather hard to fake links from known high quality sites like the New York Times for instance. So they can "trust" links more than they can trust the content of the site they're crawling.

So even though this site has a large amount of content indexed, the changes of it ranking for anything more than gibberish are so low that it doesn't even matter.
yep, lets throw a shirt on to make it acceptable so nobody would gawk in a office

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uzkCA5EyRDQ&feature=player_de...
Stats About Google Apps
My own private search engine with all rights reserved. Insidious from the outset!
Does Google provide a status page for their services?
If I could be atleast half as good as some of the people on here in even a single domain that'd be great ;-)
To quote Adventure Time's Lemon Grab, "unacceptable"!!
Same here, Google Sheets are misbehaving for me but Docs mostly seem ok. Gmail is working.

I'm actually also having problems with Facebook. I loaded up HN to see if others were experiencing the same thing.
God is perfectly just. God can bear witness. The end of the world is soon.

God says...
lying application hi ordinarily off_the_record clever it's_my_world
what_part_of_God_do_you_not_understand small_talk bank
desert baffling Is_that_so I_had_a_crazy_dream atrocious
I'm_God_who_the_hell_are_you whoo_whoo fer_sure Yes_you_are
everythings_a_okay qed I'm_gonna_smack_someone love is_it_just_me_or
I_can't_believe_it Ghost Angel daunting This_is_confusing
Japan take_the_day_off little_buddy astrophysics I'll_ask_nicely
boink big_fish after_a_break revolution homo one_more_time
quite Is_that_your_final_answer unemployment crash_and_burn
quit handyman
Brilliant, I can just imagine it:

"Yer fae England, ye'll ken Jim Smith aye?"

[Going by the downvotes, clearly not a comment for a humble teuchter to be making! Even worse, someone living in Edinburgh!]
http://www.google.com/appsstatus
Facebook Analyzes How Users Feel After DST Change
Cinematico – quick websites from Youtube and VImeo libraries
Google Docs Sharing is Down
That's the Stanford marching back, they're basically known for fucking around on stage and being edgy/controversial.
Inovance Brings Machine Learning to the Masses
Intel Processors to Become OS Locked
Why We Love Ruby (And You Should, Too)
Acts of violence without the "publicity" are not terrorism.
> and if that were the case then I would expect sonar operators over a large part of the region to hear the black box locator

Apparently the pingers are only audible for 2-3 km [1].

[1] http://www.hydro-international.com/issues/articles/id1098-Ai...
and no OneDrive for Business support still. Really tough to sell any company on using that service unless they're a homogenous Windows environment. "It's kinda like DropBox except you have to always use Windows".

Microsoft: supporting BYOD as long as you're bringing Windows.

On a positive note, it's nice to see Microsoft being a good ecosystem citizen and using the Mac App Store. OneNote is visually pleasant, at the same time familiar to Windows users but not foreign to those accustomed to Mac OS.
Or it could be more like Passbook where each sensor contributes to the Healthbook. That would be more in line with their previous efforts.
Ask HN: What is a good laptop  which is under $1000?
Another thing - a script to do this could take at least 2-3 days to code. Things could change pretty drastically by then. Of course, we might be able to reuse the code for another unfortunate time.
Google Hangouts Down
I think it also depends where in England you're from. I've always gotten on well with Scottish people but I'm from the North anyway, so maybe there's a bit of a shared pain at what happened with Thatcher.
If the milliseconds matter so much then why aren't you using code reviews or unit tests to catch the problem queries?

LINQ isn't just about hitting a database either, it enables a more declarative / functional approach to development in general, which brings huge benefits in terms of parallelisation / robustness / testability.

It seems absurd that you would block your team from using it.

Edit: Oh and btw, you're not the only person who has to deal with "large scale data". Many of us do and manage just fine with LINQ.
Running Your First Internal Hackathon
I was about to throw my keyboard at the wall because a critical Sheet of mine was failing. Ugh, this is the downside to the cloud...
Talk about taking every single word I wrote literally :) Thats ok.

I do regularly work on side projects. But being 100% productive 100% of the time, in my mind, is not healty. This is my personal opinion.

The assumption you make about your vocation being your passion and for me it being just to pay the bills could not be more wrong. I have been a coder all my life. It is my job now and will continue to be as well as my passion. I will continue improving and working on all kinds of things.

The difference is that I allow myself some breathing room to be a person, not just a machine, on a regular basis.
> what does Word offer the novelist that a plain text (or rich text) editor would not?

It handles large documents efficiently, renders them nicely, and has a ton of features for working with large prose documents.

Plain text has no value to most users since they use no other tools that work with raw text. If you don't use git, grep, cat, find, diff, etc. there's no effective difference between binary in text: in both cases they are just a blob of bits you load into a program.
seems like they did okay here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Excel
Why do we have to make an assumption either way? Damage to Github's reputation may not be a "great injustice," but it's not exactly consequence-free. It seems to me that withholding judgment is a far better course of action.
thanks. i've actually never seen this before.

does the status appear as orange semi-circles for anyone else? it looks intentional based on the source, but semi-circles are not in the legend at the bottom. wonder if it's based on how long it's been down, or the number of affected instances or something else...
Cleanup of Silicon Valley Superfund site takes environmental toll
I've been living in Glasgow for 18 months now and never had a problem. Everyone has been phenomenally friendly, which was a surprise, having grown up in Norfolk where standoffishness is the norm.
Also, it would seem that Toyota has sat back and done little to advance the Prius in the last 17 years (yes, they launched the Prius in Japan in 1997) in the eyes of the consumer or technically. I'm not a huge car guy, but I don't know of a significant change off the top of my head that has improved the Prius to inspire an owner of an older one to upgrade to a newer one.

In comparison, it seems that Tesla is really trying their hardest to make constant advancement and take risk.
I would speculate that in the case of a fire, the subsequent change in altitude was probably more likely the result of loss of control, or the autopilot was still connected and became confused by the avionics/instrumentation sending it bad/invalid data.

The latter part seems fairly unlikely, but I have no idea what a fire would do if it took out or disrupted the instrumentation, flight computers, etc..
35,000 uniques for ~330 upvotes? It's a little strange to me, but the few times I've been on HN, I've also noticed that near exact ratio: 100 uniques for every upvote, whether its for 20 upvotes or 200.

Anyway, I'm surprised it didn't result in more uniques in your case, given all the useful content you've posted...I spent some time going through your other blog posts. Great resource!
I'm using the phrase cultural Marxism to identify disciplines based on Marxist thought but that don't necessarily include the economic program that classical Marxism is known for. This includes feminism, critical race theory, and gender theory.
Duetto (C++ for the Web) 0.9.4: Async RPCs, Promises, JS interoperability
They made a nice video of the researcher surprising Prof Linde with the news:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZlfIVEy_YOA

The reaction of the couple is great!
It doesn't have to be "antiseptic" at all - there are plenty of thriving, wildly-successful, mostly-males companies with great cultures where women feel comfortable too.

Also, it wouldn't be changing it "for feminists" - it's changing it to welcome any people, of either sex, who aren't comfortable in that environment. Just because feminists might be the most vocal about it doesn't mean it doesn't affect others too.

They don't even have to change their culture at all; all they need to do is to tone down the more aggressive parts of that culture towards certain people. Which shouldn't be difficult - I'm sure all of them have friends with whom they're more calm and less aggressive, or family members. They just need to transfer a bit of this thoughtfulness to the office.

It's not about changing because feminism, it's just the human decency of being reasonable and respectable to everyone, as far as is possible.
>I think the comparison is inappropriate

Another case in point, it was a counterexample, not a comparison.

In your case, I now believe you are primarily just a sloppy/ bad thinker (who is also heavily invested in a certain position), but my original point about emotion clouding judgement still stands.
You'll find a lot of the tech scene (in Edinburgh at least) go to Tech Meetup[0] every 2nd Wednesday of the month, and you'll soon hear who's hiring in the introduction go-around.

Hell, it's a rare occasion when neither Skyscanner or Amazon aren't hiring more developers.

[0]: http://techmeetup.co.uk/
I wish it felt like it was made for the Mac -- hopefully they'll work on it more.

- Standard Mac keyboard shortcuts don't work (ie. ctrl-a & ctrl-e to move to beginning and end of lines)

- Can't drag a picture from the Finder into the OneNote
shameless plug (I run a SaaS job board platform - www.JobBoard.io), but you should consider adding a job board to this. We've got several "meetup" type communities that are making some decent income by simply adding a job board to their website...
Hey Facebook, where did all my link clicks go?
That would be nice. Maybe OneNote will beat them.
+1 for all things That Mitchell and Webb Look
An awesome Makerspace product: Surf Sauna