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After all, the MEP might be more inclined to listen to me if I'm one of their constituents (or if I am at least able to communicate with them).

This is something I don't quite understand at EU level.

In the UK, there is a convention that MPs only act for and respond to their own constituents. Randomly e-mailing the MP for somewhere else is extremely unlikely to achieve anything useful at all.

I don't know whether the European Parliament has a similar convention, but even if not, it's hard to see why a random MEP is -- or should be -- swayed in their position by representations from anyone other than the voters to whom they are responsible.

I don't understand why anyone would ever advocate lobbying anyone but their own representatives. Does this actually achieve anything at EU level?
This is pretty comparable to their Office suite for OSX (which admittedly is 4 years old, but the supposed 2015 Office for Mac will probably continue with a similar UI). You find this to be true with a lot of cross-platform vendors and products: Adobe, for example.

I don't have it installed on this machine currently, but doesn't Libre Office has a similar set of UI conventions as on other platforms, or is it "OSX-y"?
I tried the paper trick but it didn't work for me after a couple of months. Got it replaced at Apple store and sold it quick.
Officially, OOXML (aka .docx and friends) is an open spec, too.
I would argue that the vast majority of people diagnosed with ADHD don't fit the DSM V criteria for a disorder. They're experiencing "an expectable response to common stressors", and probably not "reflecting an underlying psychobiological dysfunction" - they're human, humans are often distracted, this is not a disease until it gets to the level where it absolutely begins to destroy your life, and even then it's probably reflective of something else going on rather than a primary disease.

The key to anything as a disorder in the DSM is that it:

Features

A a behavioral or psychological syndrome or pattern that occurs in an individual

B the consequences of which are clinically significant distress (e.g., a painful symptom) or disability (i.e., impairment in one or more important areas of functioning)

C must not be merely an expectable response to common stressors and losses (for example, the loss of a loved one) or a culturally sanctioned response to a particular event (for example, trance states in religious rituals)

D that reflects an underlying psychobiological dysfunction

E that is not solely a result of social deviance or conflicts with society

F that has diagnostic validity using one or more sets of diagnostic validators (e.g., prognostic significance, psychobiological disruption, response to treatment)

G that has clinical utility (for example, contributes to better conceptualization of diagnoses, or to better assessment and treatment)

Other Considerations

H no definition perfectly specifies precise boundaries for the concept of either “medical disorder” or “mental/psychiatric disorder”

I diagnostic validators and clinical utility should help differentiate a disorder from diagnostic “nearest neighbors”

J when considering whether to add a psychiatric condition to the nomenclature, or delete a psychiatric condition from the nomenclature, potential benefits (for example, provide better patient care, stimulate new research) should outweigh potential harms (for example, hurt particular individuals, be subject to misuse)
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If you do any reading on ADHD, I think you'll find that everyone who knows anything about it would agree with this. ADHD is defined as a collection of related symptoms, with the full admission by everyone involved in the definition that the causes are varied, that most of the symptoms are exhibited by everyone to some degree, and that effective treatments likewise vary greatly.

In other words, ADHD is no different than any other mental disorder, except that the drugs have effects people like, even if nothing's wrong with them.
FFS, this is "HackerNews"... write a bash script to do it for you.

I have written quite a few bash scripts, python scripts and long ago ruby and smalltalk scripts to do things for me, that bothered me. My point is, this is a software I am paying for (and I've already mentioned that 2008 should not be considered as old) and I would rather spend my time writing the "super 1337 h4x0r" bash and python scripts for something that I can't do otherwise.
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Well it looks like a cool concept, and all the best!
How do you fix this, assuming you're constrained by the same amount of resources?

My sense is the end game should be encouraging long term research where there is a decent enough chance for success relative to the gains from it - the chances are hard to determine but somewhat based on the idea, and the team chasing it. Essentially this is a VC model for ideas that are too far out to generate attractive returns.
This has long been true of Apple and ever since Apple acquired Claris Works I've made sure I can open my old files or else keep around some emulation layer to do so. (E.g. SheepShaver to run Mac OS 9 and AppleWorks 5 which could open all the old Claris Works documents).
This is not a good question for HN. People on HN come from all around the world. Your choices for ISP (Internet Service Provider) can vary from city to city, and definitely vary from country to country. I suggest you ask neighbors, coworkers, and other people in your community instead.
What makes you think www.ubuntu.com is not prerendered html5?
It's interested to disagree exactly with what you agree and otherwise:

- "What problem does it solve?" It gives you freedom, true freedom! You send to whomever you wish and freely receive from anyone anytime from everywhere! No red tape involved, no fiscal infrastructure needed, no political settings getting in your way, no many other bigger-than-you problems. Freedom!

-"What backs it other than speculation?" (I'm sorry that I have to sound redundant, but...) Freedom! Anyone wishing to use a free currency will opt for it or something similar.

- "Many bad actors in the market with little regulation." Well, I admit that the other side of the coin named "freedom" is anarchy. It scares you and you seek shelter from the wild west land of virtual currencies, but other see opportunities in there and are willing to take necessary risks.

-"Consumer unfriendly: the average «man on the street» can't secure his wallet file and even many technically sharp people have been ripped off." The friendliness is an engineering problem, and the perception is a psychological one. Both can be addressed just like so many other like it. The average Joe just doesn't think now that the inflation or other aspects of fiat-currency is ripping him off, because the work in this regard was done.

-"Extreme volatility and lack of liquidity make it a poor store of value or unit of record, two things that are extremely important in a currency." After the MtGox exit the market is actually unusually stable! And the depth of the market only gets deeper and with it - the stability of it's price relative to other currencies.

You say you see potential with micropayments, but in the current setting, the "dust" transactions are penalized with transfer fees. According to http://bitcoinfees.com/ if the amount is lower than 0.01 Bitcoin an amount of 0.0001 Bitcoin is perceived. At the current price (~630 USD/Bitcoin) the penalty limit is $6,3 and if Bitcoin's price will go up so will this limit. If the Bitcoin will rise 10 times, that 0.0001 Bitcoin fee will be 63 USD cents which means that even if a Bitcoin is fungible up to eight subunit decimals, it will count only for fine-division of large numbers, not micro-payments.

So you may be skeptical regarding the Bitcoin, but IMHO - for the wrong reasons.
It's not Namecheap sending those out: Namecheap is simply an eNom reseller and the email you received was likely directly from eNom, with some Namecheap branding attached. *.name-services.com is used for various eNom-related stuff.
thrift store, motherfucker.
Current models state that the Universe is still expanding "faster than the speed of light" (that is, fitting your explanation) if you look far enough. (What, of course you can't do, because light from there is redshifted into zero.)
I do not think that a non-technical interviewer would be able to adequately interpret things like how well the candidate found and fixed code smells, or adequately interpret how well the coder was using their tool of choice, or make meaningful comments on how the user went about testing the code.

Proctoring blind interviews might be really interesting, though.
Under heavy US influence. You use the tools at hand to achieve the goals you want.
I would love to see this happen. Right now though, the sheer amount of fighting I do with the Office suite on Mac..

Rant mode on:

Remember how people used to feel about accidentally clicking on PDFs before Adobe cleaned their act up and the better third party readers came along? I'm that way right now with Word and Excel. It takes a full 30-60 seconds to spin up and actually render the damn paperwork, sometimes it's not that big a deal if I can make it to the dock and hit force quit before too much time has passed.

Outlook is downright execerable. The search feature simply does not work the majority of the time. I can be looking at a subject line, key that subject into the field, and the messages don't appear.

I have to do a monthly-ish database rebuild or else I get non-stop "failed to save" error messages regarding appointments.

Mail.app might be pretty spartan and have it's rough edges, but dammit, the basic functionality works without being babysat!
> Can't we start a megathread or something for these?

That's not how it works. HN is ephemeral, threads last for one day mostly (sometimes 2) - after that it's like they were never there. If there's a new development about any subject, a new thread gets created. Look at all the threads where people speculate about the downed Malaysia jet or Dorian Nakamoto.

If you don't like or don't care about something, just ignore it. I ignore 50% of the stuff here, but rarely do I come across a thread that makes me feel "this shouldn't be here at all".

I also think the unspoken convention is that people who made a piece of software get a bit of extra attention and feedback. Personally, it's one of the features I like most around here.
That's exactly the problem. I would expect these essential missing features from a beta, not a release.
Which is how state controlled bitcoin like currencies will be pushed onto people, claiming it would save time/money etc, be more safe and secure etc.

Tho' I highly doubt bureaucrats in IRS or similar would rollover so quickly and put themselves out of a job!

Giving the state (or 3rd parties) even more control over currency and every day use that could be gained by a state run bitcoin like currency is very scary proposition IMHO giving them even more power.
This is a very cool technical integration between two services that are — or should be — used by most scientists working in code. But what exactly is the "problem" of citation of code that this solution fixes?

Let's say you release your project to GitHub & figshare and now have a DOI in hand. What are you supposed to do with it? Do you ask your users to cite this DOI if they use your software? If so, what text should accompany the citation? How do you track citations to your code? Will they show up in Google Scholar, Scopus, Web of Science?

And what if the journal one of your users is submitting to doesn't accept figshare / github citations? It's unfortunate but true that many publishers disallow citations to unpublished / non-academic works. This is why many scientific software projects have resorted to publishing papers on their software — it's a hack to make a software project fit into the traditional social system of scientific credit.

DOIs are a technical glue that binds together the thousands of academic publishing outlets, but they do not solve the scientific or cultural issue of what is the minimum viable citable scientific product, and how those citations are generated, propagated, or valued.

Securing a DOI only solves a small slice of the problem of scientific credit — a point most colorfully expressed by this blog post from CrossRef, the largest DOI registrar for academic work: http://crosstech.crossref.org/2013/09/dois-unambiguously-and...
The letter by Dorian Nakamoto sounds like she's probably going to be getting a lawsuit for her employer.
Wasn't that always the difference?
Another HN post from earlier today about the same discovery: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7411341
What? There was no claim of sexual harassment, although the article does try to list other cases of sexual harassment in some weird attempt to mix it up. This needs to be flagged to starve it of the oxygen it's flailing for. Is everything about page hits now?
I like how he thought it was a delivery guy for something he ordered when he opened the door.

Yep, it was a delivery alright, of one order of Nobel Prize :)
It takes a long time to get to the great ending.

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Silver's round-by-round projection percentages are included in the HTML source. If you like building rule-specific points projections, here's the data, extracted:

https://gist.github.com/ajstiles/06e2ac52927d3f292255
Gravity can pretty clearly be measured. I'll assume you meant gravity waves in particular, but even then we have no reason to believe they can't be measured (only that we haven't done it yet).
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Oh, it's totally absurd - but what about this situation isn't?

It's pretty unlikely, though, given that it was loaded with Chinese nationals, and if they got rumbled... that'd be some fallout, hopefully just diplomatic.
Files are data. Data should be eternal. You should be able to convert a presentation you make today 30 years from now to a newer format. Making software not-backwards compatible is fine and normal but if files expire in a few years Apple is saying that the things you do on their computers are disposable.
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Try View --> Full Page View. That hides the Notebooks, Sections and Pages and shows only the current page.
This is the best version of the game.

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There needs to be a clear while line separating the boxes; after intense staring I have difficulty separating the individual boxes.

A "solution": keep pressing right and E and up or down if you get stuck. Make some manual moves if the board gets cluttered.

Do not use the strategy to cluster pieces into a corner.

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Solved it. http://i.imgur.com/sb3VMCY.jpg

And apart from the 2D variants it required some thinking. This is THE version to iterate and improve. It has gameplay.
It can also be triggered by using the same contact with another domain being registered. Registrars aren't required to verify any existing contacts, but the moment there's an update, they have to. That said, if they want to, they can.

Also, Namecheap is an eNom reseller, so you actually got that email from them, not Namecheap.
Have you checked your webserver logs for funny looking http requests?

Have you considered that you're being SQLMapped by someone using the Tor Network?

( http://sqlmap.org )
I've beaten 2048 (i.e., developed a general algorithm that consistently wins).

Do you end up with game boards with more than one 128 tile, 64 tile, etc.?

The game has a natural tendency to spawn multiple high-value tiles, and preventing it from doing that is the nut of the game.

Pick the bottom row and make that row your "accumulator". Pick a bottom corner; this bottom corner will store your largest value. Now, keep your bottom row sorted from low value tile to high value tile at all costs:

4 8 16 128

Let's say the bottom two rows look like this:

2 8 4 2
4 8 16 128

You drop the 8 down:

2 4 2
4 16 16 128

Now, merge left or right? To the right of course, you want to keep that bottom row sorted:

2 4 2
4 32 128

Now drop down (or continue merging to the right until you can drop a tile down into the empty space in the bottom row):

8 4 2
2 4 32 128

This "locks" the bottom row into position, allowing you to freely move the upper three rows left and right without disturbing the ordering of the bottom row. Row-locking is more important than clearing the board.

Focus only on the bottom two rows for most of the game (until/unless most of the board fills up). Accumulate values in the bottom row, and build matching values in the row above it.

What if the game plays dirty and you end up with:

4 32 128 2

Reverse the ordering of your bottom row. You now want to gradually shift that "128" tile to the left, so build on the "4" and "32" tiles until you get something like:

64 64 128 4

Now shift left and left again:

256 4

And drop new tiles into the bottom row:

256 4 2 2

And your bottom row is ordered once again.

What if a higher value tile drops into the bottom row out of order?

32 4 16 128

Ignore it. Build those "4" and "16" tiles:

32 32 32 128

And then merge right and right again:

32 64 128

And drop a new tile into the empty position:

2 32 64 128

This is the situation you want to avoid:

16 64 128 64

This is a natural result of the rules of the game, and this is where it becomes difficult for the player to win, especially when those values start to look more like:

32 128 512 128

Now you suddenly have to do a lot of work in just three rows of space to double one of those 128 values.

This approach makes the game pretty easy.
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Exactly, the problem becomes managing view logic in conjunction with @media queries. If you app fundamentally changes how it works and how it looks, you're stuck managing that logic in 2 places. You don't want to manage the view logic in JS and you can't manage the application logic in CSS without some kind of standard system. That was the goal for MoshPit, to integrate easily and allow management of both at the CSS layer.

You don't have to

if (window.is_mobile() && this.$left_thing.css('display') == 'block') {
this.$left_thing.hide();
this.$right_thing.show();
} else if (window.is_tablet() && this.$left_thing.css('display' == 'block') {
this.$left_thing.css('left','-100px');
this.$right_thing.show().css('left','0');
} else if (i_hate_my_life) ...

Because managing it in the code, through QA, and receiving the email subject line:

"We're adding a new component to the application, it will only be shown like this when this thing is happening and on mobile it will be able to show here, but not here, only if this thing is shown, and since it' launches from this we'll need these things to do this."

Doesn't cause more nested if else switch case statements to further complicate the code.
Too true. Too true.

I think that if salary levels hadn't been effectively frozen starting from the '70s until now, $300k would be about "normal" for a middle class income.

It's not that $300k is a lot of money, it's that the people of the US (and the world in general) have been cheated out of their share of productivity improvements. There's a great video that talks about stagnant wages and the problems that are the underlying cause of the recent collapse(s) of the economy. [1]

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_-KqeU8nzn4
To me the issue is that you have a smartphone that runs a virtual machine instead of native software. What you describe is what I have hated from Java the last 10 years.

Mozilla would be more of the same right now, as Javascript is also not native.

My best bet is Ubuntu Phone, whenever it's ready.
Law enforcement agencies. They're the ones that asked for this nonsense.
The disturbing takeaway from the article is that it would in fact only take 9 attacks at strategic points to bring down the entire grid, per the FERC report - hence the relative urgency on display in asking utilities to submit plans for improvements by June, and the unavailability of the report to the public (as far as I am aware, after spending a few minutes searching for it).
I would like to point out that this is more awesome than it even looks. Try selecting a portion of the song, in the usual way with your cursor.
Unfortunately, getting promoted, and moving up the chain has nothing to do with how hard you work or how qualified you are at doing the job. It has everything to do with what how people think how hard you are working and how much they think you know. Moving up in corporate culture in most places is a popularity contest. Not to different from joint the popular group in high school. This is a cynical view, but it is what I have observed in my now 30 years experience in the corporate world.

Don't try to change it. Don't try and be part of the problem, it is not worth the punishment your self worth will endure.

Best solution is to get really good at whatever it is you do to the point where you hold the cards and they are the ones that are begging you to join them. Then you can dictate the work environment that you will put up with.

Or just start your own company and attempt to foster the work environment you wish you had for your employees. This is the path I choose and it is extremely rewarding - even though I don't make as much money as I could if joined the program.
I don't agree. I think the Scottish Nationlist's are racist towards the English, and they're happy to incite hatred in the electorate by raising the spectre of the Evil English raping and pillaging it's way through Scotland.

They asked for a referendum to be held on the anniversary of the Battle of Bannockburn. To what end?

Perhaps Jingoism is a better term than Nationalism.
I've said before the Newsweek story makes no sense. In order to believe it, you need to think this guy hatched a brilliant plan to protect his identity (after 5 years of successfully doing so) by acting like a clueless old man and calling Bitcoin "bitcom."

And simultaneously you have to believe, during the execution of his brilliant plan, he goofed and unambiguously confessed to his involvement in Bitcoin.

>"I have no knowledge of nor have I ever worked in cryptography, peer to peer systems, or alternative currencies."