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>> but for the rest, stop complaining and find a place to sit down with your laptop.

Exactly that. I carry an n900 as my daily use phone/pda and it works great as a "better-than-nothing" device for ssh access/websurfing. Its' strength is that I have it 24/7 not that it is as good as a desktop/laptop.

I'm looking forward to the neo. I'd like it to be faster, yes. but that requirement is way down the list.
This shows "Mobile Firefox Mobile", which is correct but obviously badly phrased.
I see your point as philosophical. It's the same old "commercial planes are statistically the safest way of transportation" and yet the whole world immediately knows about each plane catastrophe, rare as they are. Nobody cares about how many people die in car accidents every day just as nobody cares about how many deaths are caused by fossil fuel power plants.
The "why" in the headline strongly hints at some sort of causal relationship, but the article only goes so far as to point out the obvious correlation. The "why" is never answered at all.
If? You mean when this story becomes a movie plot. I give it one year after they find it.
The New York Times, quoting American officials and others familiar with the investigation, said radar signals recorded by the Malaysian military appear to show the airliner climbing to 45,000 feet (about 13,700 meters), higher than a Boeing 777’s approved limit, soon after it disappeared from civilian radar, and making a sharp turn to the west.[1]

If the MH370 suddenly climbed to 45,000 feet that would indicate that either (1) there was a mechanical failure so the pilots had to struggle to take the control again or (2) there was a fight in the cockpit that resulted on the abrupt climb.

[1] http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/mar/15/mh370-search-fo...
Malaysian Flight 370 May Have Been Hijacked Into the World's Biggest Void
Ex-coder, lost interest, moved to QA, no more options now
I picked up programming during my graduation. Was able to code fairly good on an academic level in C, C++ and Java. When I moved to my first full-time programming job, I struggled a lot with enterprise level coding. It came to a point where looking at code made my head hurt.
I quit and took a job as a QA. In this role I faired well, since I do have a technical side to understand the minutiae and I also have the product sense to envision good features and UX. I was valued in this job for both my QA skills and my ideas. Due to some contractual obligations this job came to an end and I had to take the first one that was handed to me.
Now the big buzzword in the field of QA is Test Automation. This lands be square back to where I started from 4 years ago. This has become an inescapable skill to land a good job in QA. Companies and recruiters have little or no appreciation for being technically competitive and adding value to the product from someone in my role. If I do not know Test Automation, I am considered as someone not being serious about their job. I am not sure what to do next.
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There is no official version, as the author said: https://twitter.com/gabrielecirulli/status/44449813553323212...

The link your sent is by the way slower than the gl version :)
>"Ultimately all consistent objective decisionmaking processes [1] must come down to a single number"

Look up Campbell's law. Here, I'll even do it for you: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Campbell%27s_law
I just looked at the burger in question.

Wow!

I'd totally eat 1,000 of those. But I guess I should start caring about things like not having heart attacks, so I don't know.

My heart says "yes" though.
Yes, we offer SSD as well.
Dutch Streets Adopt Cryptocurrency, Become 'Bitcoin Boulevard'
Lets hope they don't have problems with the lithium battery, sounds like a painful amputation.
The thing that bothers me is that the transponder(s) were turned off/failed right at the boundary between Malaysian and Vietnamese air traffic control. Could be a coincidence, but it's also a good location for those of bad intent.
Cheating would hypothetically cease to exist if students didn't feel like they have a need to prove themselves on paper by a score

I can bet that it won't happen. As long as people need to complete, they will try to cheat.
Another Model M owner here. I have one from 86 at work and one from 92 at home IIRC. It was very difficult to find them with Spanish layout, but I can type on them like 50% faster than on any other keyboard I have tried due to the great feedback, they don't make my hands tired and they feel just great.
> Where should we get our energy?

Preferably using some process that won't leave the planet uninhabitable when something, inevitably, goes wrong.
Paying a 'professional' to review my SaaS product?
I have a fairly narrowly-targeted MVP that I aim to release as a SaaS product, soon. It will be targeted at web developers, bloggers, or even just people with tumblr pages. It will come with an API, JavaScript libraries, and documentation.

I've never released this sort of product for this type of market before. I want to have my design and functionality nailed down, well before I release, so people take me seriously.

How would I get people who are very experienced in these markets (like many of you) to critically review this, beforehand? Is there a service that lets me pay experienced professionals for review?
> user-facing avionics stuff in Javascript

Please don't give anyone any stupid ideas.
You can see how this campaign of proclaiming "bossy" to no longer be gender neutral has caused me (a heterosexual white male) some serious gender identity issues, as I was frequently called "bossy" as a child.

Does this mean I'm actually a woman?
Bitcoin wallet papers?
Good point, I guess that table only shows language features.

Here's the library features table: http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/libstdc++/manual/status.html#s...

Not feature complete if you take that into account, I'm afraid.
It's more of a reflection of the society than anything to do specifically with that particular system (education in this case), just like counterfeiting/copying in China and corruption/scams in third world countries.

That kind of stuff really pisses me off, but I also have a naive perspective. For example, in some parts of the world (particularly in low trust societies) corruption is looked at differently, it's just 'taking care' of the family to the best of your ability. The more power you have, the more 'ability' you have. Maybe the goal should be to increase trust instead of trying to 'fix' the symptom?

It's hard to accept that from an American perspective. In fact, maybe it's even wrong to call it 'corruption' as if our societal views represent some sort of moral standard. But maybe they do. Shrug
You can keep playing on the "official" one too. (Recent update.)
man, the hacker scene is so petty. ripping each other off just to show they can (or worse, to profit). sure imitation is flattering, but where's the dignity?
> Seems you have misunderstood how it works. https://github.com/visionmedia/co/blob/master/index.js

No.

> Typically in apps using 'co', functions will return generators, not promises. Promises were probably added because of all the existing code out there.

Again, generators in and of themselves don't do anything (for async code). Something needs to be generated/yielded, and that thing is the reification of an asynchronous operation. Such as a promise[0]. Generators and promises fulfil different roles, generators are used as imperative "sugar" for chaining promises.

The generators you yield will ultimately resolve into a series of async operations (promises or "thunks"), yielding a generator is convenience (not very useful convenience either, since `yield*` exists the ability to yield generators just complexifies the driver)

[0] and in the case of co a "thunk"[1], because node
I created a Ruby gem for making gmail-like avatars with initials
Like it?
Windows hits the skids, Mac OS X on the rise
Argh! I hate it when people do things I don't like!!!
A brief history of travel technology
An ssh client in your pocket with a keyboard. I still want one.
The State of the Art when Chernobyl was built was far beyond Chernobyl- but corners were cut, just like Fukushima.The question isn't can we build (and maintain) very safe Nuclear reactors, the question is, will we?

Just to be clear, I am of the opinion that modern Nuclear is a great option for our present energy needs.
That version is a fake according to the creator's twitter feed: https://twitter.com/gabrielecirulli/status/44449813553323212...
That is a good point to raise :D

I had a micro heart attack just by looking at it.
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With 1k burgers?

You could just order one to eat there and one to go. If you don't eat it later. Well, 998 to go now.
Wow..blast from the past. Loved this app
Postfix was a no-go for OpenBSD because of the license. The only existing mail server with an acceptable license was qmail, which had its own issues, to put it lightly.
Hey Eric,

It's a good v1 for sure, congrats!

I would ignore any non-baysian MAB posts out there. The formulation used by other approaches is one that considers an infinite number of repeated trials, which is basically an insane assumption. Epsilon greedy and UCB1 aren't optimal except with that assumption.

You should check out:

- http://www.economics.uci.edu/~ivan/asmb.874.pdf
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vz3D36VXefI
- http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~deepay/mywww/papers/nips08-mortal.pdf (good benchmarks)

+1 that VWO's blog post is dumb :p

FWIW you are doing a weighted decision approach, it's just that you've constrained your weights to be either 0 or 1...

Cheers,

David
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Stop the hating, please. It has a hugely negative effect on HN in general and on creators specifically. Don't use it if you don't like it.

Whenever I come across people who really hate me and my work it takes every ounce of energy to try and ignore them and move on. So hard. --John Resig, creator of jQuery (https://twitter.com/jeresig/status/425483930918060032)
There is no ads, donations goes to Gabriel, i thank him in everyway i can when publishing. He said he wont do an ios/android App. There is nothing petty.
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Very literal naïveté.
You Sir, are a god among men.
Take a job coding at a startup for a year if you do enjoy coding. That can get you back into the field, and can help you make good pay and determine where you'd want to land. Good QA people are hard to find, but the position has a sort of limit career wise. In addition, you could consider a position as product manager which has a higher growth career path. Just my 2 cents.
‘Flatline’ … on the gender challenge in engineering and computer science
What about wages and quality of life there? Seems like an interesting place to be...
Please stop perpetuating this myth.

Post-economic-crash, equity packages have added quite a lot to salary.

$200k total money comp (incl 402k, bonus, equity) is well in range for a career/intermediate software engineer.
The many (alleged) lives of Microsoft's Office for iOS
Wow, the “discussion” here validates every negative stereotype about the tech community, you troglodytes who I’m embarrassed to call my peers. I wonder if it’s it too late, at 31, for me to change careers?
I've used bootflat for a previous project, prior to bootstrap 3, but have since switched. It looks great, but it's just a slight modification in colour scheme now, whereas before it was a huge difference. Bootstrap's hosted on a CDN too, which is nice.
Yeah I can't believe those deceitful bastards at the Smithsonian would dare float the idea of a possible subscription to their magazine before you read their article.
Do you have any sort of special knowledge here? I've read numerous stories which quoted people with aviation knowledge who suggested that a 777 could be put down on a wide variety of surfaces including but not limited to hard dirt and stretches of highway. The latter, of course, might attract some attention unless the highway was abandoned, but I imagine there are any number of hard, flat surfaces of greater than 3000 feet in length in the world, for example in the Kazakh steppes, that may be remote enough to make a covert landing mostly under the cover of night.
I wish there was a flag on HN for paywalled content so it was filtered out by default.
No mention of SQL? Relational algebra is a very prominent example of one-way constrain system, if you look at individual nodes in the query execution tree. Also, remember to consider index maintenance and materialized/indexed views.

I like that article is well-researched with references to various papers, there is definetly some good reading material there.
45km includes all of seattle and some suburbs, so, yes, absolutely.

Even an Asian financing hub -Uwajimaya
I really don't think Christie has more to lose. I am sure he could "stick up for the people against the Silicon Valley boy billionaires" in some pretty interesting ways that would spread quickly. I can seen a "electric tax" as step one. After all, rich owners of electric cars should pay for the road like working class gas car owners. I'm sure he and his could come up with something else. The interesting part is how far any "reforms" NJ implements can spread. Politicians love new revenue streams.
Lost Momentum
Thanks for your thoughts. The issue is user should be able to interact with the system. For example after viewing the flickering image for couple of seconds, user should make a choice and click/touch.
A question for the physicists on HN: I've heard that black holes emit radiation. But if nothing can go faster than the speed of light, and a black hole's gravity is so strong that not even light can escape, then how can a black hole emit anything?

Is there a kind of black hole which is so massive that not even that radiation can escape, or do all black holes emit some kind of radiation? (In fact, do they emit radiation proportional to their size?)
The relationship shift on presales definitely will happen.

1) I was a frequent customer at a Brooklyn record store. Sold the owner hundreds of dollars of records for a massive credit. Everytime I used said credit he'd grumble a little about not making a big sale.

2) Chiropractor I liked, saved money by buying 20 sessions at a greatly reduced per session price. Soon I was getting calls every week that I needed to start coming in weekly to burn through my package.
yes obviously feminists were the real ones behind 9/11
There is also a complete lack of tests. It'd be nice if there was a library of tests for all sorting algorithms. I'm sure there is, but something more widely accepted and well known.
Google the title and go to it that way. I was able to read the article that way on my ipad.

Actually, I get the full article on my ipad through the HN link.
Still curious. Go ahead, humour me.
And this is why the 757 systems failed far too often, because taking N-Modular Redundancy to this level causes a great deal of false positives.

For this reason it was rejected for use on the 777 by the FAA Chief Scientific and Technical Advisor for Flight Controls.

With regard to the 777 Flight Control System Design, "Bob Yeh" released a number of documents on the system.

http://www.citemaster.net/get/1472830e-8785-11e3-9b63-00163e...
Interesting idea. Could be a great spin on Seinfeld's Comedians In Cars Getting Coffee for the tech/startup scene.
Its really not much of a knife. A Silicon Valley billionaire comes with quite a bit of baggage these days. That happens when journalists need a new villain. Those bus articles aren't a cause they're a symptom.
Crossfilter's link is broken (parenthesis and semicolon were included).
> The more raw/command/shell modules you have to use

Yeah, that's a problem. It's gotten a lot better with the 1.5 release.

Example: we just made the light-speed jump from 1.1 to 1.5. While re-doing a role yesterday, I noticed we now have a module for ec2 snapshots.

So _next_ week I'm replacing a 50-line bash script with a five-line playbook. Which will be run by Jenkins.
Not sure why you're being downvoted, there is no official version at the moment and that is an impersonator.
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Off-topic, but: I love the feeling of seeing a new TLD for the first time. I immediately start thinking about possibilities and everything seems golden for a while.
Even after a restart? Would you have a chance to share the log (if you know how to do it)
KVO is akin to manual memory management - a lot of individual pieces to tweak and remember, and the outcome is very brittle and error-prone.

I prefe the approach where dependant values are expressed as functions, and then a caching layer is added where needs for performance.
Don't think this isn't something every state legislator in every state is thinking about. But it's a hard sell to reverse the course of the river and keep your seat. With dealerships, they're already the established model and keeping the status quo is much less work.

In your example, states are actively trying to collect at least sales tax. New Jersey is no exception

http://www.northjersey.com/news/sales-tax-decision-could-be-...
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For those who actually want to see the code behind this:

https://github.com/mrmrs/fluidity/blob/master/css/fluidity.c...

It's a good start to getting properly responsive websites. A lot of times this really is all that's needed. But sometimes more complex solutions are needed for certain elements.
Yes, it is a bit of understatement. Other than the insertion at smaller sizes, it adds:

- scans array to find merge-able runs (rather than use a "standard" size like more merge sorts); This makes it closer to O(n) for mostly-sorted arrays, a feature that is mostly associated with Bubble Sorts - but without giving up any of the good things about MergeSort

- identifies "reverse runs", and just reverses them - making mostly-reverse-sorted arrays closer to O(n), which no other general sort achieves.

It's still O(n log n) in the worst case - but it just works exceptionally well on real life datasets, which often have sorted or reversed sections.
Its not entirely due to licensing. OpenBSD has security patches to Apache that weren't accepted plus the license change. OpenBSD has been maintaining their own branch until the switch.
I think you're indeed mistaken ;) Java EE had a bad reputation in 2004, being mainly represented by mega corps with their hidden corporate agendas (IBM, BEA, Oracle). Developers weren't being asked what the wanted or needed managers were influenced by sales teams to go with either IBM or BEA. Application servers were at least a 2GB download and easily required a GB of memory to run (this is still a lot in 2014, go figure what this was in 2004). Of course everything was closed source, super expensive (so your company never updated) and servers took a minimum of 5 minutes to boot up. A hello world in the then dominant EJB 2 technology required implementing 3 interfaces, inheriting from a base class, using a special compiler tool to enhance the class another compiler tool to create stubs and needed some 20 lines of XML in an incredibly verbose format to be registered.

You didn't need to be a technology export to predict developers didn't really like this tech (understatement of the year).

In 2005 Sun made a dramatic turn, and Java EE 5 started focussing on developer demands instead. Meanwhile many open source initiatives started or were getting mature (Sun's GlassFish, JBoss, Apache's Geronimo and recently TomEE).

Java EE 6 (2009) and EE 7 (2013) continued this trend.

Long story short, completely free and open source servers that start in a second or less and are between 30 and 120MB to download now dominate the market. The APIs have been dramatically simplified and the process of contributing to the platform has been largely opened, making it possible for anyone to create issues, submit patches or discuss the future direction. There's one thorny exception and that's the so-called TCK: a test suite that checks spec compliance is still mostly closed.

And yes, there are now hip startups using Java EE, for example http://zeef.com

All in all Java EE has become somewhat of a secret weapon. It's powerful, yet lightweight and quite a lot of people have not (re-)discovered it yet. Especially when combined with Java 8 (due for release next week) it's a very good stack.
Wow, fooled me too.
Redmond is too small to compare statistically to Singapore. The author took a homogeneously nice town with 54K residents and compared to a city-state with 100 times more people. Take a moderate to very nice section of Singapore with 54K people and let's see the numbers again.

I moved to Redmond recently from Toronto, which was a pretty expensive city. My living expenses went up a little, but my quality of life went up dramatically. I live in a modest house, but it's mine. The cost of a mortgage was less than the cost of renting a smaller place. I own a car, which means skiing or hiking every weekend.

The weird thing about Redmond (and Bellevue) is the "everyone is above average" feeling. The expectation is that everyone has a stable, well paying job. It's a bit of a Stepford Wives kind of town. What if you are working in something that doesn't start you at 80K with benefits? Then your options in town dwindle very, very quickly.
Oh my. That is brilliant submarine marketing.
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I dream about a tl:dr button for content.
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Quicksort is worst case O(n^2) time, unless you incorporate something like Quickselect for your pivot (which no one ever does, because it makes it relatively complicated. Have you ever seen an O(n log n) guaranteed quicksort implemented? I haven't - best I've seen is median-of-3 or median-of-5 pivots - or randomized). Furthermore, I've never seen an O(1) space version of quicksort and I'm not sure one can exist -- see, e.g. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/11455242/is-it-possible-t...

The meaningful comparison would actually be to Heapsort, which is in-place, O(1) space, and NOT stable - though much, much, simpler.

ADDED:

Anyone who uses quicksort should read this gem from Doug McIlroy, which elicits an O(n^2) behaviour from most quicksort implementations: http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~doug/mdmspe.pdf -
Costing 2 pounds for a story is quite a bargain.
The highest-ups have assistants to take care of drudgery like that. No need for the executives to waste time with a series of media players which do not work seamlessly with high-fidelity playback equipment.