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Quotes from an Outdated, Ignorant DBA
I'd pick Solomo, because it resembles a real word, and is also the exact sequence you picked.
Godaddy, Rackspace, Google, Amazon, etc. have skin in this game. With multiple redundant network connections they could, for a day or a week, defend neutrality by shaping their traffic to the lowest common denominator or routing their traffic to avoid the peer's punitive bottlenecks. Today its Level 3 and Netflix, but tomorrow it could easily be them.
They can both be configured in Settings: https://duckduckgo.com/settings
If a customer is paying for an internet connection, they are paying for access the full internet, to the best of their ISP's abilities. This is the net neutrality law we need: ISPs should be compelled to upgrade their backbone links as they become congested, to satisfy their customer's demand. Congestion can be easily monitored and often these peerings are "free". (Yes there is a non-zero cost to increase switch and router capacity and to have someone plug the cables in, but it's not like Level3 is charging for the bits exchanged.) But the point is, since most ISPs are de-facto monopolies in this country, we need rules telling them they have to upgrade their capacity to meet their customers demand, if they are promising broadband speeds.
"Appetizing"? Brazilian Aardvark - it's what's for dinner!??!
Though I don't think anyone is selling them to people trying to buy aardvarks.
Yep, I think it's important to recognize that, but probably still interesting to compare and contrast that to the age of wikipedia.

It isn't just the same. The differences as well as similarities seem interesting, not neccesarily in a 'sky is falling' way, just in an understanding our social world way.

While Britannica definitely included plenty of accidental errors, the fact that wikipedia can be edited by anyone probably makes it more often include intentional falsehoods -- although maybe not, we can only guess without some attempt at investigation.

The fact that wikipedia changes at a higher velocity than Brittanica ever did probably changes it's effect, and the nature of the social feedback loops we're talking about here (for good as well as ill).

And finally, wikipedia is more comprehensive than any Britannica, and more accessible than any Britannica (to anyone with an internet connection, for free), and it probably gets used a lot more than any Britannica ever did! Wikipedia probably has more of an ability to propagate inaccuracies by virtue of it generally being better in several ways!

There's more to say about it than this, it would require some actual investigation and research and thinking. I think there's plenty of interesting compare and contrast to be done along those lines beyond just saying "Yeah, but errors in Britannica probably ended up accepted as fact too", although that's probably true and a good start. (I would be interested to hear about an actual example of an inaccuracy or falsehood in Britannica that wound up accepted as true by virtue of inclusion in britannica).
That's why you should instead use a "dictionary of synonyms, which will provide those details.
2014 is almost half over: time to give yourself a mid-year review
p.s. -- and when you feel better, if you're interested in (paying) freelance work and have the right skills, send me an email at stephen dot impassebreaker dot com. I can't guarantee you that it will be a ton of work or a ton of money. I can guarantee you that depression will not be a strike against you, if you can do the work. But get help first and don't screw up deliberately and get yourself fired.
I spent years with Linux desktops and laptops. Switched to Mac about 10 years ago. Of all my developer friends I know, not only have I had the least amount of problems with my Mac laptops, but - sorry for the cliche - things just work. The latest and greatest is nice and while I'm not obsessed with having the newest, I like using what's new.

I spent a lot of time fighting the proprietary thing. It's a noble effort, but I realized after years of sub-standard drivers, laptops that don't turn on when you open them, cpu fans buzzing out of control, etc, etc, I'd rather spend my time doing things instead of screwing with things.

Linux is great, I love it on the server and pretty much use it exclusively there. But I haven't seen any laptop manufacturer come close to building any laptop that's close to a Mac laptop. When you start off building based on cost vs. based on function & product, then you're always building something sub-standard. It may seem like indulgence, but no one makes unibody laptops but Apple. No one can.

I spend my days working on a beautiful machine that functions how I expect. I fiddle with very little, don't have to worry about upgrading or tearing anything apart and just focus on getting the things done. You can do this on Linux too for sure, but I feel like for me, the Linux desktop on crappy hardware is not fun or satisfying.

I have a Retina MBPro with 16GB of ram (soldered) and I couldn't be happier. In a few years when I want a laptop with 32gb ram, I'll give this one to a friend or family member and buy another one.
You know that the current model isn't working, your boss simply articulated it's time to move on. See if there's a win-win, ask if the company can give you a severance package (say 2 weeks for each year accrued) if you leave voluntarily. Everyone can save face and you'll have a financial cushion.
As for your job search-- it's a $17T economy, tons of opportunity out there for Lead Gen, if you look for it.
OfficeRiders – My home is your office
Gluten Researcher Reverses His Earlier Finding
I'm starting to see more and more Surface devices in my area. It seems to be getting popular with the Starbuck's salesguy crowd who need something as compact as a tablet, but they can use real applications on. I know that's kind of cliche, but you don't really "get" that meaning until you walk into a coffee shop and see 2 or 3 people sitting around with tablets sticking up on the tables. The Android and iPad guys are usually surfing the web while the Surface guy is editing a spreadsheet or doing something in Powerpoint.

Actually a great network effect is getting a presentation of some business proposal off of a Surface. Everybody who see the presentation usually asks what kind of Android tablet it is, and it suddenly turns every real-estate sales guy in the area into an impromptu Microsoft sales guy, extolling the virtues of the device and OS.

They're still too pricey by my estimation. You should be able to get one of these (maybe a low-ebd 32GB model) with keyboard for $799. I don't get why the keyboard/cover is an optional buy.
$799. Impressive. I think this is a big moment for Microsoft.
Reports of the Death of Phone Numbers Have Been Greatly Exaggerated
For most of the services we create separate accounts. Nowadays most sites support multiple accounts, those who don't are rare enough to just share a password via email.

Personally I use 1Password for storing passwords and it allows sharing vaults between users so as my team grows we might actually consider using these.
I figured someone who speaks X and wants to begin learning English would use an X-English / English-X dictionary.

English has a vast vocabulary full of similar words, each having subtle differences and nuances. How is one to decide which word to use in a particular context? For example, check out:

http://thesaurus.com/browse/pleasant
I wanted to buy a Surface Pro 2 but the model I wanted has been out of stock at the Microsoft Store for a few weeks now.
I didn't know it had shipped to retail already
Educate yourself:
http://www.bankofengland.co.uk/publications/Documents/quarte...
https://github.com/duckduckgo/zeroclickinfo-goodies and https://github.com/duckduckgo/zeroclickinfo-spice

I agree that there should be a link on duckduckhack (or, if there is, it needs to be more prominent and I couldn't find it too).
Do you also cover up the logo on your car? What about its distinct and recognisable shape?

Actually, same goes for macs. I always find it funny that in TV shows the logo is covered up even though everyone can clearly see they're using a mac.
I'm building software account.I quite understand what he about to mention.When big company involve,the lot of passing layer from document a to document b. Actually this was very infective upon implement.Performance very weak.
In real life,single ledger is more then people need.Double entry ledger for those requirement MSAB,FRS,FS whatever.
Another page saying triple accounting was future transaction ?
Sometimes Customer wanted simple application,sometimes customer wanted super complex flow system.Kinda hard to fulfill every their wishlist.
> When you write notes using OneNote you can then click the top of the stylus again, just like an ordinary pen, and it will sync those notes up to the cloud instantly so they're available elsewhere.

Elsewhere -- as in the laptop you will inevitably go crawling back to when it's time to get real work done. It's always humorous when an article about a device that is supposed to kill the laptop ends on a note like that.
I wonder what the battery life and graphics performance are like? If they're decent (6+ hours of moderate use, plays CS:GO at 60fps), this will be a really great machine. The latest i7s tend to have pretty good integrated graphics, so I think at least that won't be an issue.
ShowHN: Integrating PubNub with freeboard
Impressive, as in cheap or expensive? It depends on your perspective.
I suppose given an assumption of who uses DDG it's okay to use the icon, but my core point is really that it's not as common as one may think.

In general, solely using an icon instead of text (or a combination of the two) is poor from a usability standpoint. Within a mobile context, I can understand the general push towards more compact treatments, but an icon with three lines does not intrinsically have any definitive meaning. While the icon may be aesthetically pleasing, I always felt there were some more effective alternatives.

There's been some recent discussion and data generated related to this icon (1,2), some of which can obviously be debated, but I think it's safe to say it's not as ubiquitous as you may think.

Overall, I don't think the hidden drawer pattern (and the associated menu icon) are appropriate for the site when it's being used on a desktop. But, it's OK given the contents of it and understandable when the site seems to have been designed mobile first and responsive. I do think more time should be given to the final 'desktop' state for a lot of responsive designs these days, though.

[1] http://jxnblk.tumblr.com/post/82486816704/an-update-on-the-h...
[2] http://exisweb.net/menu-eats-hamburger
Rubin helpfully fills in a lot of blank spaces in what we already knew about this. The one nagging doubt that still lingers sits somewhere between what is doable, versus what is done. The Kinect, for all it's technological triumphs and impressive market performance, still leaves us waiting for whatever it was that made it seem like it was going to change everything. While few who have ever had the Oculus experience have any doubt that it could change everything, we mustn't forget that we are also all still waiting for the first concrete confirmation that this expectation will be met.
US targeting Bitcoin exchanges in hunt for drug money
Google's ability to print money in conjunction with its generally high PR ratings give it the cache to take on a project like fiber. I can't imagine it's cheap or easy to lay fiber if you don't have substantial financial backing as well as a political goal you're trying to achieve.

That said, I've used both Sonic.net and MonkeyBrains here in San Francisco. Never had to rely on a major ISP in this town, and I like it that way.
It's weird looking down on any aircraft while standing on solid ground. Have experienced this on a couple hikes and it's slightly disorienting.
Blog post tells more about it: http://buglabs.tumblr.com/
Wait, how do we know that DHS is serious here?

I mean, they may be saying not to use Internet Explorer in order to put pressure on Microsoft to give the DHS a backdoor, or use an encryption method that the NSA can crack, but we can't. Seems very suspicious to me, a lot like when the US government was opposing Google and Yahoo cooperation, to drive Yahoo into Microsoft's more compliant arms.
So basically what is say is Windows 8 sucks take it off the table anything else goes.

I'm quite certain most people would agree with that statement.
Does Privacy Text Sabotage your Opt-In Rates?
Just for perspective, 3 million users in China is the equivalent of about 700k users in the US.

It's not insignificant, but neither is it like every third Chinese person is running Kylin. Heck, even OSX has 20 million or so users in the US[0]

[0] http://www.pcworld.com/article/2050510/windows-8-users-now-o...
The ISPs aren't dropping the packets, Level3 is. From the article linked to in the blog: "A port that is on average utilised at 90 percent will be saturated, dropping packets, for several hours a day. We have congested ports saturated to those levels with 12 of our 51 peers." "We"in the quote is Level3. They're dropping the packets.

Why do the ISPs have to pay for Level3's dropping of packets? Shouldn't the ISPs replace Level3 if they keep dropping packets?

Also, dropped packets isn't the end of the world. In TCP at least, the packets just get resent.

The language that gets used in all of these talks ("deliberately harming", "American business", "It's insulting") just makes me want to tune out entirely. I don't have time for chicken littles.
They've kind of killed this whole angle of "Surface is for getting work done" after they hedged by releasing Office on iPad.
My service (https://snappycheckout.com) offers a Stripe Checkout like experience and allows you to sell files from Dropbox. It costs 2% or $0.50 (whichever is less) per sale (plus the usual Stripe/PayPal fees).
Oliver Burkeman: 'You’ll be dead soon. Isn’t that great?' (2012)
The Zerocoin Project
http://www.energeticforum.com/renewable-energy/984-coral-cas...
Try Helium. https://github.com/geuis/helium-css

I wrote and maintain this project for the last 4 years.

There are issues with David Walsh's approach that are explained in the Helium README. Automatic stylesheet generation is a terrible idea, for one.
Shaving Bytes with JavaScript Booleans
Did Valve really contribute the most important part to Oculus that is the no-nausea experience? If so, on what terms did they share the technology with Oculus? I'm wondering if Valve is the winner in the shadows or the biggest loser.
It's not all about this "Like" button. There are other things in Codebrag we think can make it worth trying: all your duties in one place (commits waiting for your review, comments and likes from other users you may want to reply to). Also it doesn't stand on your way, no tons of clicking, going through complicated lifecycles and so on.
You bought a used laptop which is slower, no touch screen, digitizer, pen, Windows 8, SSD, etc. That's like comparing an old Blackberry to the iPhone 5. There's really no reason to try and compare them.
I meant cheap for what it is (or seems to be).
Did I miss that or they said nothing about the battery duration? For me that's a very important information. For the rest is a really great piece of hw

edit:

Yep I missed: "Over ~20% more battery life than any product Surface has shipped before"

and: " battery life is up to 9 hours on the Surface Pro 3."
Incredible. I can't imagine taking 6G without the benefit of a suit, never mind repeatedly. This story very much reminds me of another account by Hans Krohn [0], though he flew the MiG-21 (in a full motion simulator).

[0] http://www.hanskrohn.com/FlightSimStories/Mig/Mig.htm
BFCPU – a brainfuck cpu design targeting FPGAs, via python with MyHDL
The code names for various subprojects within Windows 95
Excel spreadsheet on the network drive. I wish I was joking.
The anandtech live blog says it's 20% better than surface pro 2.
I never knew I was colorblind (red/green) until I was in high school -- we were looking at Ishihara plates (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ishihara_Test) in class and I told the teacher there must be something wrong because I couldn't see what we were supposed to see. I thought I had gotten a bad photocopy, because I couldn't believe I had gone through life not noticing that I was colorblind.

As I've aged I start to notice it everywhere though -- video games, greeting cards (hello Christmas colors), and websites alike. Just yesterday, in fact, I was reminded when I checked the reservation status for my ZipCar -- it looked like this: http://i.imgur.com/OkC2dG0.png.

I decided to tweet them and give them a suggestion of how to fix it (my idea: http://i.imgur.com/nNVUXLO.png), but in general it surprises me how infrequently designers/developers will think about a large portion of the population (8-10% of males) when they sometimes will spend days making sure IE8 or other browsers with increasingly smaller marketshare look great.
+1 for passpack
Why you should never stop event propagation
There's also "F6", which is just a single key. Maybe that will be easier to get used to.
Weather From
It's not even building a big dish that's the problem, it's that it has to be pointed extremely accurately and stably, and preferably able to track..t
Ok, consider yourself funded for 250 pounds, who else would like to chip in?

I'm really really rusty on VHF, do not have any required licenses and all my HAM contacts have dried up due to old age so that's pretty much all I think I can help with. The most I did in hardware terms in the last 6 months was to make an old Unitra grammophone work again, not quite in the right league :).
Looks like the specs / pricing might be as follows.

Core i3, 4GB RAM, 64GB storage - $799

Core i5, 4GB RAM, 128GB storage - $999

Core i5, 8GB RAM, 256GB storage - $1,299

Core i7, 8GB RAM, 256GB storage - $1,549

Core i7, 8GB RAM, 512GB storage - $1,949

http://www.zdnet.com/surface-pro-3-price-and-spec-leak-70000...
Really akward that they made a point of saying the device is 'fanless' when it clearly has a fan and vents around the side. Sure it might be a very nice and quiet fan, but it sounds disingenuous to be saying there isn't one.
Apple audit rejects any app using DDL.
I think there is security issue with DDL by which one process/app may intrude other processes/apps' address space at run time.
SNS implementation in iOS provides a uniform interface - UIActivityViewController+UIActivity which implemented most common parts, each SN just needs add a thin layer with their own logic, graphics, etc.
I do not know why Apple has not provided an Ads interface/API as SNS, hope they will.
That looks like a smaller version of a Malibu tracking dish that I've used :)
Oh, I didn't mean to imply that web proxies are trivial, simply that this is nothing new - there are hundreds of proxy sites from all over the world on http://proxy.org/cgi_proxies.shtml. Still, if you made this, good job!
Oranges. http://www.amazon.com/Oranges-John-McPhee/dp/0374512973

Absolutely fascinating -- it's just about oranges.
I tend to agree with you about 40h/week for work. I have been pretty lucky in life and have never had to work more than 40 regular hours in a week (barring some reasonable on-call time, of course; nothing too exceptional). I have advanced to a point where my compensation is enough to pay for a decent lifestyle for myself, my wife and my two children. Now, my hope is that I can (over time) scale back my work hours rather than increase my compensation.

I don't travel much (I don't have much of an urge to), but I tend to live pretty leisurely, even with two young children, a house to pay for, a number of bills, etc. I don't have every luxury my friends have, but I tend to not need those things (and I do have the luxuries I want to have).

That all being said, I live in Canada and not the US, and some of the descriptions I hear about work-life south of the border gives me chills. I suppose we're not much better up here, really, but I'm happy to say I can personally get by without over-stressing my workload (and, of course, that's probably just because of my personal circumstances and whatever luck has befallen me).
Existing discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7773024
For a third button you can get BetterTouchTool[1] and set up an event for the Tackpad under "Global". I have tapping the top right of the track pad (about a 1cm square) trigger the third mouse button. Perhaps it's not as great as a real middle mouse button (can't middle drag, real pain for GIS and CAD software) but it does handle opening links in new tabs and closing tabs via middle click.

[1]: http://www.boastr.net/
My laptop has a full KDE instalation that I use to launch Konsole.
Ask HN: Is this sponsored weeklong "hackathon" actually exploitation?
BeMyApp advertised a week long hackathon
http://hackerisland.bemyapp.com
recently and I applied. A week in a nice hotel on an island and hacking on fun stuff sounds great.

Now they would like me to participate:

=====

Here, are some additional information on this hackathon :

- It will take place during the Edenred Annual meeting with 200 managers from 40 countries.

- The aim is to select 13 designers and 13 developers who will work in teams with Edenred managers in order to implement a new dynamic for innovation

- There will be 13 teams. Each team will be composed of 15 people : 1 developer, 1 designer, 2 team leaders and 11 managers

- As a member of your team, you will participate in choosing the theme of your app

- Teams will be divided in 3 sub-groups :
Group 1 : mock up
Group 2 : benchmark – Market study
Group 3 : Commercial pitch

- 1 appointment per day will be scheduled with John and Pierre from BeMyApp to help you

We are looking for autonomous designers and developers who can work in team and adapt quickly. Indeed, most of the managers have never taken part in a hackathon and some of them don’t really use mobile applications!

As we want to take care of you and want you to have fun we have booked a 5 star hotel for the whole duration of the hackathon with a private beach and a swimming pool. On top of this, the 26 participants will win a PEBBLE watch and the winning team will win 4000€.

=====

I'll be the only dev in a group of 3 to 5 building a mockup. At hackathons usually at least half the people are devs.
I have the strong suspicion Edenred wants developers to work for free at prototyping ideas of those over 9000 managers.
The payment consists of a Pebble, plus flight, food, and hotel. If they hired freelance developers, this would have to be payed for too.

Am I too suspicious or is this ok?
Sidenote: wired.com articles have a truly annoying UX error. The slider/gallery goes full screen when the user presses 'F', which hides the article.

Not very helpful when you want to find something written in the article by Ctrl+F!
Dropping packets makes load problems worse, because failing users start to send even more traffic.
Yes, but you have to appreciate the extra care given to capitalize every word in the headline. Kudos, TechCrunch.
Yeah, looks like Surface follows a 8-9 month cycle. I bought SP2 right when it came out and then they bumped the processor by a little a month later.
IIRC, Valve wants to make games for VR, they don't want to make VR.
or kiwi fruit, no one was buying chinese gooseberries.
The Circuit: A tiny daemon for distributed process control and orchestration
Easy exception:

I need a word that pretty much carries definition-X of word-Y, but cannot be word-Y, because I just used word-Y in the last sentence.

As a writer and editor, I come across this exception a dozen times a day. You aren't looking to spice anything up, you simply need a purely functional synonym.
They claim that it's +20% compared to SP2, and SP2 achieved 8:51 on the Verge's battery test.