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> This is Microsoft we're talking about - they have a track record of profound fuckery.

They have a bad track-record, but not in terms of "this team" (known as Devdiv). They might have gotten all uppity about IE, Windows or what-have-you - but the .Net team had a relatively quick epiphany about open source. Look at Mono.

Java is always touted as a "more open" platform, Microsoft-haters have no issue spewing falsity that the Microsoft encumbrance is a big risk - however, so far as the framework track-record goes, Microsoft has a "community promise", an ECMA spec and has given Mono unit tests for Moonlight; Sun/Oracle has a track record of aggressively pursuing copyright (the recent spat with Google/AOSP).

I'm not saying that Java sucks, or that people shouldn't use it. I'm just saying that a lot of people need to have a hard look at how much time they spend trying to mud the name of a company trying to make a turn. These opinions are antique.

It may change in the future given new governance in those corporates (just as the e.g. Java, NodeJS situation may change), but as of now and as far as .Net FX goes: Microsoft is likely one of the best living examples of how things should be done.
I was about to flag him for being offensive to Italians ;)
Chromecast + Plex = AWESOME
I recently buyed a Chromecast, and then I've found Plex media server.

I've installed it on a Hetzner server, which is downloading movies with Transmission, which I view on the couch on the tv with Chromecast.

This. Is. Awesome!
Sanebox [0] is in my opinion better than the priority inbox. I used it back when I used gmail and I use it now with fastmail.

[0] http://www.sanebox.com/
Duplicate of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7545456
The issue seems to be that, when you want to buy a somewhat-large amount of stock, regulations exist which:

1. Force you to split up the purchase among multiple exchanges, and

2. To compensate for this disadvantage to the buyer, are supposed to prevent news of the order causing a price change at the other exchanges by spreading faster than filling of the order, so that you don't have to deal with an artificially-inflated price on top of artificially-imposed split of your order.

But while (1) is enforced, (2) is not. Which means buyers and most sellers have to play by one set of rules while people who want to inject themselves as middlemen get to play by a different set of rules.

At least, that's what seems to be being described here, and I certainly can see problems with it.

(not to mention that that "liquidity" and "efficiency" arguments fall flat -- the types of HFT schemes being described here work only by creating artificial illiquidity, and I don't know of any rigorous argument that creating more middlemen improves efficiency)
Starting a business will not make you happy
In January, Teresa Fuentes’s employer told her she could work no more than 30 hours a week preparing burgers and passing out food at the drive-through for about $9.50 an hour.

What a beautiful way to write around the elephant in the room there.

[Edit to add: The Affordable Care Act includes a provision called the Employer Mandate, informally called "play-or-pay." It says that for employers with 50+ employees (including e.g. the aggregate of fast food shops owned by a single owner) which don't pay for X level of healthcare benefits get fined $2k per full-time employee per year.

A full-time employee is, simplifying a bit, one who works 30 hours per week.]
Where in Italy?

My girlfriend studies Italian and we might move to Italy for a year or two, hence I'm curious. Significant differences in terms of salary?
Is it based on html5? if yes, what container did you use?
It's news because the contents of any of these meetings rarely surface to the public where we can discuss them.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D5Fa50oj45s

Here is a great talk about it from a doctor withouth any new age babble. He gives very simple advice and even backs up his claims with some research.

The gist of it is:
- For 15 minutes a day sit down and try not to think/observe your body/observe what is going on in your dead
- Do this for 30 days, after that your brain should pick it up and do it more or less automatically

This made a huge differenc in my life for sure.
Criticker solved that problem for me. You do have to invest a little time rating movies you've already seen, though.
Because this is Oracle we are talking about, I am not sure if you are being sarcastic. But just in case you are not, my experience with Oracle is quite the opposite of what you describe. Oracle is sold on the golf course, and they exist purely for profit. Most Oracle consultants I know (quite a few) who actually develop software using the tools, gladly admit they work with Oracle because they can charge high fees. In fact, if I asked them their opinion on this specific incident they might actually approve - given the end result is that their knowledge is safe from newcomers.

All this is anecdotal of course - but this is a good talk that gives a pretty nice perspective on the whole thing: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-zRN7XLCRhc&feature=player_de...
Emu, A Smarter Messaging App With A Built-In Assistant, Exits Beta
Inside Sequoia Capital: Silicon Valley's Innovation Factory
Encryption with Gnu Privacy Guard (GPG)
i'm ok with giving you a cookie
I've always loved comic sans, it's like a family Labrador that just wants to have fun.

When more discerning people around me criticise it, I send them off to read: http://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/im-comic-sans-asshole

Thanks for the refresh, OP. I can't wait to see where I can sneak this in.
But, you said two people want to share a cake. According to the scenario only one of them does.
Simply add an additional S/U bend to the overflow. Less likely to get clogged as the overflow is hopefully rarely used.
Love it. I've been making my presentations in InDesign for a while now, and exporting to PDF, and while the end result always looks great, I end up spending an inordinate amount of time choosing the typeface and the look and feel. Turning a Markdown document into a presentation by simply selecting a theme and a color scheme sounds wonderful to me, especially considering the themes are high quality.

One thing that's not entirely clear, though, is how the automatic layout works. For example, does it colorize photos to match the color scheme? What if you don't want it to? How does it resize photos when it needs to? Is text size based on the amount of text in a slide? Is it fully automatic or can some things be tweaked manually? I'm guessing this stuff has been thought through pretty well, but OTOH "it automatically makes things look pretty" does sound a little bit too good to be true.
I have a few off the top of my head:

- Learned helplessness is one of the biggest enemies to learning, but it's insidious in that sufferers don't recognize it. Often, I'll try to teach someone something, and I'll know for sure that they can and will grasp a concept, but they'll just stop short on their own accord, chalking failure up to their own (imagined) inherent inability rather than a specific situational lack of something. Usually accompanied with a general statement like "I'm just not a technical person" or "I'm not that smart" (sometimes not voiced) or "I don't get math" or "I'm more of a right-brain person". It's interesting that of the tons of much likelier reasons for failure (bad teaching, not enough practice, not having the right foundation), the most commonly chosen is "it's me".

The opposite side to this is to incorporate failure and retrial as part of the learning process, and to realize that the failure is a specific situation and mostly not a general statement of ability.

Anyway, when they're encouraged a bit and they do succeed, their surprise and satisfaction is one of my favourite things in the world.

- Psychology is not bullshit like I used to think before.

- Introspection and self-examination is very important and ignoring your inner world does not make your problems go away. Regularly taking time to consider your thoughts, worries, knee-jerk reactions, big life events, priorities is a great idea, and keeps problems from bottling up. A multitude of lingering things on your mind that don't seem immediate on their own can add up fast. I didn't even know this could happen until it did to me.

As a positive result though, I discovered a whole new meta-level of thought. Observing the process through which thoughts materialize in my mind is enlightening. Watching chains of thought develop step by step uncovers biases and thought-tendencies that are often unconscious but can be damaging.

It also promotes self-honesty, which sometimes saves you a lot of time and money and is often a great antidote to ignorance. There isn't a switch you can flip to be more objective but a decent attempt helps.

- When people say things, don't forget to think about why they're saying them. Often this provides valuable perspective. What's motivating them to say that? Is it conscious? Sometimes a pipe is a pipe, but sometimes it's not. For example, if someone tells you "never trust women", concluding that the person has probably been severely hurt by women before (conclusion from asking why the person said this) is much more valuable than concluding women are evil (the direct conclusion).
As others have pointed out, that 5$ box might actually be a 20$ or 40$ box, so I disagree with your notion of not putting critical infrastructure on DO.

That being said, their penalties are ridiculous. I got a 10$ "SLA Credit" for 2 days of downtime. So I agree their SLA is useless.
Looks pretty cool! You should really rework the Plans page. At first I didn't realize there was more content below the "Free" plan, because I'm on a 13" OS X machine so scroll bars aren't visible by default.
> There are problems with your APIs losing data because of errors or downtime. A lot of the Internet is going over unreliable wireless technologies. So your beautiful REST calls are now riddled with exception handling, because there are so many ways of things going wrong.

Couldn't this be easily solved by:
a) putting the server behind nginx to terminate slow connections after several seconds, and
b) adding retry logic to the client?

This isn't a rhetorical question - would this approach actually work if a client was part way through sending data when it lost network connectivity, or am I missing something?
In part due to selective bias - the 'lucky' ones enjoy remembering the luck, the 'unlucky' ones enjoy the opposite.
I think you just described most corporations. Despite the PR otherwise, they're all rotten to the core like this.

However in this specific case, if Mozilla issued a takedown to w3schools, would we be up in arms about it? Vendors are generally pretty tight with documentation when it's a cut-throat sector.
After the first 24 hours i started to get a bit twitchy.
Most of all I was worrying about data loss. (RAID degradation turned out to be the core issue, but I managed to boot the server up after 48 hours and copy over everything before spinning up a new instance, so no data loss occured.)
No, it's not, it's all native Cocoa text rendering. We deeply cared about the design and wanted full control, and being able to lay out glyhps individually is very important...
I would have appreciated if people in general chose a license before releasing font files.

Right now, I have no idea if I'm able to use the font for a website or for a mobile application. You may provide .woff and @font-face .css, but you don't explicitly say that redistribution through @font-face is allowed. I also have no idea if I can embed the font in a mobile application (phonegap/cordova) through @font-face.

That's what bugs me when designers provide 'for free' font files on a behance page, and what is also the case here: I am explicitly authorized to install the file locally, sometimes I am explicitly authorized to use it for 'commercial projects', and almost never am I explicitly allowed to redistribute it (which renders possible to use it on a website with @font-face or in a mobile or desktop app). As a developer, that sucks. That makes it seem like the 'free font' is for designers only (in the sense of: people that will only use the font to make an image, not a document, not a program).

These problems are of course already solved by the SIL open font license (http://scripts.sil.org/cms/scripts/page.php?item_id=OFL_web): with fonts released under this license, I am able to fix problems with the font (kerning etc...), I am able to redistribute it (@font-face, embed) AND the original designer is protected from people who want to sell the font ("The OFL allows the licensed fonts to be used, studied, modified and
redistributed freely as long as they are not sold by themselves.").

If you want to sell the font, go ahead and do it! However, promoting it here as free font for a limited time to a crowd of people who have a good chance of being developers, well...
Lots of things are hard. If the margins are juicy enough though, competitors will show up.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Porter_five_forces_analysis
One wonders if you could build an OpenCV interface using Halide to maintain compatibility but also the potential for optimizing across OpenCV function calls?

I want to write in OpenCV, but I also want the compiler to fix everything across function boundaries :-)
>By your definition, the right to own firearms is also a human right as defined by the US constitution. Similarly, in the United States there is a human right to free speech

Yes. At the very least, those are rights, that supercede your democracy. Those rights are not 'majority preference decides'. Those rights were decided by 'who is more stubborn and willing to fight an eternal war and not give anybody peace until they get their freedom'.

>Who created the UN, or whatever international body you want to use? Who elected the officials who appointed the courts?

Whoever has the biggest gun:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Realism_(international_relation...

This is not meant to be cynical though; in practice this turns out much nicer than you would expect. It's not a biggest bully on the block kind of anarchy.

Why? Because people who just have a 'prefence' are not part of the calculation. The armchair opinion of civil debate, the talk radio, whatever. It does not matter. If they are not willing to fight/kill/die to get their way, they are not part of the negotiation. And they shouldn't be, because obviously they don't care enough. They are not invested enough. The deaf kid doesn't get to pick the music.

>Basically the idealistic black and white moral analysis, while noble, fails to explain what happens in the world.

Yes. The notion we can settle these core principles with civil debate is ridiculus. Rights are not the result of debate. They are the result of negotiation. We're all actively counting guns, bombs and bullets.

The world may debate about health-care, taxation or pot. Because whatever our position is, we consider it less important than our rights and democracies. Yet there are values we will die for. Values outside of the realm of debate.

In that light, witch hunting whatever forces are actively violating or trying to violate those rights, can be both logical and moral. It's war. The harder the pro-equality people come down, the more likely the anti-equality people are to give up, accept and surrender.

>If no bill can be passed without mentioning gender, we should remove the US "Violence Against Women" act as being anti-male as well.

I'm not aware of any nation without any law referring to gender. But i also never ever heard anybody make a rational case, that the gender of a person is anybody's bussiness. If anything, it's a reminder just how sexist we all are. So many laws referring to genitalia, yet none refer to our eye or hair color.

Here's one for the lurking spin doctors. "Stop being perverts. End genetalia-based laws now!"
How To Optimize And Use Unique Pictures To Build Early Traction
http://www.ted.com/talks/dan_ariely_what_makes_us_feel_good_...
Garmin connect can do this, as can runkeeper: http://runkeeper.com/search/routes. I'm sure mapmyrun and others allow it as well? you point and click along the route and it calculates the distance for you, garmin even tells you expected time to complete.
HTTP 202 Accepted [1] does the job.

[1] http://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2616/rfc2616-sec10.html#sec10...
TLDR: People's brains become optimized for TLDR
We're talking about a submit button here.

You're claiming, millions are filling in long web forms with their feature phone numpad keys?

Give me a break.
I think that's pretty much how the routing works in Tor for Hidden Services and in I2P for EepSites (except that it's mixed with onion routing (Tor) / tunnel routing (I2P) to provide anonymity).
For those on GNU/Linux who want to know about the CPU caches on their machine the "lscpu" gives more detailed cache info than /proc/cpuinfo.

I got curious about how lscpu was determining L1 Data and L1 Instruction caches. So I had a look at the source code of lscpu and found that it was looking in /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu/cache/ and /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu/topology/

This lead me to "Memory part 4: NUMA support"
http://lwn.net/Articles/254445/

Pretty interesting stuff.
I don't know if this is what lead to this going up, but patio11 mentioned this service the other day in his epic post about Tarsnap: http://www.kalzumeus.com/2014/04/03/fantasy-tarsnap/ .. he uses Dead Man's Snitch to ensure his backups continue working (or more accurately, to notify him when they don't!)
Sensibilidad dental: Definición y causas
1982: I bought a ZX-81 Sinclair. No hard drive, had to save stuff on an audio tape, 1kb RAM (I bought a 16kb extension), screen definition 64x44 if I remember well. I learned coding and English entirely by reading the UK weekly 'Your Computer'. A great time!
That's pretty much what I was thinking, yeah. A detailed plot synopsis is provided in chunks of information of 1-2 sentences. Each of them is tagged as being at a certain point in the text/series, as well as extra tags about the characters/settings that they deal with.

Each query that a user sends would just display a subset of the complete plot synopsis. So user at S3E10 would see all the things that user at S1E02 will be shown, and then the rest of seasons 1, 2 and 3.

The character/setting filtering is just a way of filtering down things further. If you're just interested in what character A has been doing, you don't need to pore through information about characters B, C and D.
Looks completely off in Chrome on Linux, too.
The set of all possible submarine routes is countable (velocity vector + position at time 0). Let's assume we have an enumeration of that set. Now it's easy to bomb them all. At time 1 we bomb the point where submarine 1 is at time 1, at time 2 we bomb the point where submarine 2 is at time 2, and so on.
This also reminds me of the Curse of Knowledge, where people who know something internalize some valuable perspective which makes it difficult for them to empathize with how it must be not to know.
Doesn't help that their own website is barely Web 1.0. It's damned near impossible to find anything in their documentation unless you've already memorized all the hoops you need to jump through.
I bet you're a smarter individual than you're letting on. You might know what those mean right off the bat - but I'm sure you can infer the reference via some pretty good critical thinking skills.

I pay no attention to soccer, hockey or cricket, but if a fan uses a position term as part of a broader analogy, I could infer the overall context of his point.

Besides all that, baseball is hardly just an American sport, it might not be as widely popular in Europe, but it's quite popular in Central / South America as well as Japan / Taiwan.
It does colorize photos according to the color scheme, however, you can also turn this off: http://www.decksetapp.com/support/#how-can-i-prevent-deckset...

Yes, images are resized, depending on what you want: http://www.decksetapp.com/support/#whats-the-best-way-to-wor...

The text does not resize. You can make headers 'fit', which means they fill up the available space. The only thing that automatically scales down the font when needed is source code =). Being Objective-C developers, we really needed this, haha.
There are so many ways to create an App without making it Mac dependent. Why did you choose that way? It's something I'm looking for but I'm like 99% on Ubuntu and 1% on Windows nowadays.

*edit: From what I can see from the start page it's awesome! Would instantly buy an Ubuntuable version! 20 Bucks seems to be a good price.
I keep hearing about fragmentation but I'm not having that much problems with my app (more than 1 million users). Especially on 4.0+ because manufacturers have to ship Holo, so you can control the look of your app.

What kind of problems devs are seeing with the various 4.0 devices?
That you are riding the same initial wave of energy that was The Big Bang, and that it is responsible for every single decision, impression and feeling that you have in your life. That's the epiphany that I had while listening to Alan Watts.
This was nice to read. Thanks for that!
HFTs are only accessible to a select few. And are only worth doing over large sums of capital.

Is it rigging if my dice has more sixes than yours?
But does it work well in comics ?
Migrating from .html to extensionless URLs without losing SEO Juice
We are Mac developers, and we wanted to make use of all the great stuff that Mac provides us in terms of text layout... But we are thinking of what we could do to bring this to other platforms as well.
Are You An MLM Junkie?
1) It's an American newspaper, you might as well complain that it's incomprehensible to people who can't read English.

2) I know nothing about baseball but I didn't have a problem with this. There are different positions in lots of professional team sports (football, cricket, rugby, etc).
Stop Making Users Explore
If half my resources aren't loading, or aren't loading in full, despite all the fallbacks built into HTTP itself to avoid precisely that scenario, there's no fallback on Earth that can work around this.

If my JS would load in half, my no-JS form might also load in half, what do we do now. Have a fallback where we accept the form in pieces?

As for people who have a "personal preference", well, they might as well have a personal preference to browse the web via telnet. It's their problem.

The requirement to use a full, working web browser to browse a web page is hardly extreme.
Well if people are looking for a job, he's giving them an opportunity to fulfill that desire.

While a engineer in SV might have more leverage in a situation like this, in parts of the US that are still recovering and the unemployment is higher, finding these opportunities is definitely an area where an employer has leverage.
How politics makes us stupid by Ezra Klein
The OSI model accounts for that in layer 4.

However, the IP based protocols didn't implement that piece, but let the protocols (TCP/UDP etc.) just use the layer 3 addresses instead of having their own layer 4 addresses.

I'll try to find some references, but back when TCP was conceived, the idea was to have layer 4 addresses too, but this was dismissed for simplicity.
What you're talking about is something like (if not exactly) game theory. I read somewhere (no source sorry) that humans in normals situations DON'T actually behave like that.

They generally come to a mutually satisfactory conclusion, normally kindness (apparently inherent in human society) surfaces quickly.

Intelligence would perhaps suggest it's most efficient not be a dick in the long run.