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Crazy to finally poke around the Famo.us University and then to read all these scalling comments. The scrolling did not work that well for me either, however having seen so many APIs for graphics in Java back in the RIA days until now, I think that Famo.us is doing something fantastic for HTML5.

By the sound of the comments and also feeling the same pressure I'd say everyone is between a rock and a hard place, when it comes to getting their hands on a decent mobile framework (more than that Angular CRUD thing anyways).

Yes, it is absurd that something like what Famo.us is doing at long last has not already been done. Now that they are doing it lets give them a chance to do it (if that leader of theirs could actually code instead of act like a kingshit it would also help). I'm also sure most of you could crawl back up your stack and shut up for a bit longer.

I've had to wait a long time myself, to the point where I've just had to use a lot of engineering and progressively move toward an agnostic codebase that has become elegant as a matter of course. I would welcome Famo.us as an option for me, sure beats the incredible waste of going native. We need to support Famo.us with useful feedback not bitching.
Great article! Very interesting reading.
I usually scroll using the smooth scroll by pressing the middle mouse button. Doesn't work either.
It seems disingenuous to describe ";" as a "comment macro". It's not a macro, it just causes the reader to ignore characters until EOF, \r, or \n. (https://github.com/clojure/clojure/blob/master/src/jvm/cloju...)

The fact that the CommentReader is dispatched from a table called "macros" (https://github.com/clojure/clojure/blob/master/src/jvm/cloju...) means nothing, unless you also call string literals "string macros", s-expressions "s-exp macros", etc., since mostly everything is dispatched from that table.
How germ.io uses germ.io to build germ.io (dogfood: level 99)
I find it weird that you don't believe you can have both at the same time. I have my (important) dot-files and etc-files checked into a git repository, critical subdirectories of ~ (Photos and Documents, to name a couple) synced to an online backup service, and I have a cron job that takes a daily snapshot of the list of packages installed on my laptop with "dpkg -l" (which gets dumped in ~/Documents, which is synced to my online backup). If (and when: this has happened) I lose my main machine, I can be up and running, virtually exactly where I left off, in a matter of a few hours. The only stuff that's really missing that I need to get work done is ~/src/, but all of that is on various git servers, and can be re-cloned as needed (it's very rare that I finish some coding and fail to check it in and push it somewhere safer).

I just could not live with a stock Mac or Windows setup (or Linux, though, to be fair, there's really no such thing as a "stock" Linux setup) and still feel productive.

Then again, regarding Windows specifically, I just cannot feel productive on Windows anymore, period. In the 90s I would have considered myself a Windows power user, but switching to UNIX-y systems blew away anything I could ever do on Windows. Perhaps things have gotten better, but I have zero motivation to go back when I already have the real thing right in front of me.

In the end, though, everyone is used to what they're used to, and switching costs can be pretty damn high.
Do we really need this level of overly extreme optimizing? Today's modern Web browsers are already doing the most layout and rendering with CSS plus CDN and client side cache.
It seems like the telecommunications industry is trying to scare people away from being charitable to strangers with their wifi, because it forces people to purchase expensive internet plans on their cell phones if they want to use the internet outside.
Donald Knuth's Typographic Art?
Donald Knuth explored typography for 10 years right? Where can I find his progressive works?
No. I'm from the Boston area.

But my sister and mother live in Colorado Springs. Of late, I've noticed it's become cheaper and more convenient to fly into DEN and drive down to the Springs, instead of booking a flight right into COS. So, I've become more familiar with Denver as a result.
Jono Bacon leaves Canonical to join XPRIZE
Quite mesmerizing. I cannot stop looking.
Brilliant idea!
Worth reading though lacks hard numbers. That might make the case better for AngelPad
ProtonMail now in public beta
FWIW, I remember hanging out with numerous folks on LiveJournal and DeadJournal c. 2002, and a number of them had (or made fun of people who had) Xangas as well. So while his startup may have felt like a failure to him and may not have made any significant money, it had actual, mainstream, not-just-early-adopter users, which is more than the vast majority of startups ever get.
What is the best OS for web development? (Community Protip)
> Lowering the bar - Inexperienced managers have low standards, or lower their standards, in an effort to make a hire. Good managers know that they're much better off keeping a high bar and waiting for the right candidate.

I'm facing this argument right now, and it's unclear to me on what my manager's opinion on this is. I'd rather not trade quality. While I agree with the quoted answer, I can't think of a good argument to back it up, and the answer doesn't provide one. Can someone give something more concrete here, especially something more concrete than, "well, a weak hire will cost you more in training / patience / bringing them up to speed / constant mentoring"? (or is that really the argument?)
Well when a union is busted usually all of the union members are let go. The smaller number of people that do get jobs at the same place usually get just as good or better offers, especially if they are newer.

It's not across the board because of the top union earners that are privileged with triple salary for simply being in a place longer than the others. Their salaries will get slashed. That's always going to happen when you convert from a system that rewards people based on time served rather than merit.
In other words, get your links by using a PR firm, not an SEO one,
AMD since long a while wasn't as slow for NANs whereas a few generations ago Intel was certainly 100 times slower as soon as the NANs are there. The first processors that aren't are Sandy Bridge ones, apparently.
Ask HN: How do you tackle back-pain?
I'm 24 and work as a developer in a startup, work out daily and am healthy overall. A couple years ago, probably due to bad posture, I started getting pain in the left upper back. I neglected it. The pain slowly increased and now if I sit for some time, I start getting pain in the lower left back, too(the lower back pain goes away when I walk/stand - the upper back pain is always there). An orthopedic had me do an X-Ray and concluded this was a condition called Myofascitis. I could see my upper few vertebrae compressed together in the X-Ray, and this could be irritating the myofascial tissues and nerves around that region, the doctor said, adding that this condition can't be "treated" and that I'll have to "manage" this pain by 1. fixing posture, 2. never riding a bike in my life(he asked me to get a car) and 3. getting regular massages for short term relief. He added that Vitamin D and Yoga have been known to help people with the same condition.

I'd like to hear from people who've been through this - What did and did not work for you? Are there any people here with knowledge in this area(spinal orthopedics) who can tell us more?
1994, based on this usenet post:

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/rec.aviation.stories...
Re: why, Greenspun's article goes into that in some detail.

Also, Emirates is in the United Arab Emirates, not the US, and about as militantly anti-union a country as you'll find -- and they're famous for luring pilots away from other airlines. By and large, the pilot seniority scheme is a US-only problem (although vestiges remain in Europe), most of the rest of the world competes tooth and claw for pilots.
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I also run an unprotected wireless network and I highly doubt it will ever cause me problems. Computer science people always seem to think it's essential to take every possible precaution. In my opinion they are protecting against very rare events and they are mostly too young to realize that something terrible will happen in their lives first and make their choice of a DSA vs RSA ssh key really not important.
Same thing is starting to happen with most ISP's in the Netherlands :)
Do you have a source for “they could have designed a base 10 floating point unit, as recommended by Kahan”? It is not in the article being discussed (only one occurrence of “decimal”), and I have a hard time believing that Kahan didn't believe that binary was the superior base and should be implemented first (and is so efficient that it should be implemented even if one builds a decimal system too).

Simulations of physical systems, for instance, do not care about the base. Base-2 offers the smoother relative precision, and a very simple system to save on the first digit (do not store it). In fact, I seem to remember a Kahan article saying that binary was superior to all other bases that could be considered for floating-point.
Given the time interval you're talking about (man, over 20 years now!), that's more than enough time to get up to expert level on any OS. I started on the Microsoft train back at DOS 5.something, and started using Windows at v3.0 (and wrote my share of shitty VB and MFC apps on 3.11, 95, 98, and 2000), but I left the MS world around '00/'01 and will never go back.

(Oh god, remember Win32s?)
for lazy ones http://magistravsh.github.io/random-cat/ :)
27ft Giant loudspeaker goes on display at Science Museum
off topic, but wow, quora is actually letting me read past the first answer without logging in. they are finally wising up after I ignore the call-to-signup for the umpteenth time?
>If you have an example of union intimidation then please provide it. My spouse is part of a union and no one is intimidated.

How much choice did he/she have in joining the union? When you receive the emails and letters before a vote, how many are from union members speaking against the union? If it's always 0, then there is some level of intimidation that your spouse likely hasn't been exposed to because he/she agrees with whatever the union says.

All 3 of the unions my parents were members of always put immense pressure on members that spoke out against the union because they don't want the company to see that there is any kind of uncertainty. Even the legal/job threats when you refuse to pay your dues because you don't want to be a part of their organization is a form of intimidation.
Should the economy turn down during the contract period, the pilots, having expected to collect 95 percent of the airline's profits, will in fact be entitled to 115 percent of the airline's profits.

That statement is tautologically false since pilots are paid salaries which decidedly is not profit. According to this thread in 2002, the pilot's share of all operating expenses are 3-5%: http://www.airliners.net/aviation-forums/general_aviation/re...

I.e the 95% figure needs a cite otherwise it's bullshit.
I cut my teeth on Red Hat 5/6 (pre-Fedora), but switched to Gentoo in 2002 or so. I finally bit the bullet last year and went to Debian (unstable), after getting tired of fiddling with Gentoo and waiting for things to compile (MacBook Air here, not super fast).
>> * Assume that it's part of some larger conversation amongst lots of bloggers.

that is the killer - articles and books carry their own context. Even well written articles that start with "As Fred smith commented on his well received blog" have a huge mental drag of having to go read Fred's article, grok that context and then come back and ...

Self contained, even though having good references is still best.
Is the precommit hook[1] a custom one or is it an off-the-shelf Django recommended hook? Looks like it has some neat tricks and code style checking.

[1]: https://github.com/Yipit/pyeqs/blob/master/pre-commit
One worry is that the copyright of the piece remains with the original author (http://habrahabr.ru/info/agreement/) and that publishing a translation without explicit permission from that author violates international law. Providing a link to the original helps to show that your intent is good, but unfortunately does not change the legal situation.

I do agree that you are providing a useful service by spreading high quality technical information. My understanding is that unauthorized translations are more common and more tolerated in Russia than in the US. But HN is a very law-abiding business-oriented site, and justifiably is concerned with following the law. Thanks for signing up here to explain, and please try to work with DanG to come up with a plan.
It's a way to share an Internet access while requiring proper authentification of your guests, so that you will not be responsible for their behaviour.
Develop electrifying games via Android Application Development Services
http://appsted.blog.com/2014/05/19/develop-electrifying-game...
Facebook AI director on the importance of emotional machines
Reliability and durability go an awfully long way. There are already a myriad of clones which do more for less - but they're not GoPros so most people can't be bothered with the "good luck have fun" approach to if they'll work or not.
State sanctioned kidnapping is sadly not that uncommon. Revelations of extraordinary renditions have by the US and allies have been gracing front pages periodically over the last few years. It makes for disturbing reading going over events from the last few decades.
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forced_disappearance
I'm using this reader for HN: http://hckrnews.com/
It isn't RSS but converts to a timeline - very convenient to use.
Meet the Italian Who Beat Google to Web Search
I have had a, static, static site generator for many years. It is called gedit. I've heard Notepad++ is pretty good too.
Can't we ban links to the Quora website? It doesn't let people read the page without logging in.
No technical reason, we are just lacking the person-power to tackle Android now. It should be straightforward to port from the iOS and web versions and we’d be super happy if someone would take that on :)
GREGONOMICS
Why GitHub will like Gitchain
> Besides, xargs isn’t good at transferring special symbols, such as space or quotes.

Well, no, not when you're piping ls into it. That's what --null (or -0) is for. (Use find instead.) The man page offers a similarly baffling argument:

> xargs deals badly with special characters (such as space, ' and "). To see the problem try this:

touch important_file
touch 'not important_file'
ls not* | xargs rm
mkdir -p "My brother's 12\" records"
ls | xargs rmdir

Same problem as the article: piping in the output of ls into xargs.

> You can specify -0 or -d "\n", but many input generators are not optimized for using NUL as separator but are optimized for newline as separator.

I still don't see the argument: if the generator is "optimized for newline as a separator", then -d is what you need. But if your generator is outputting a list of file names (perhaps the most common case of xargs), then -0 is what you need. It is perhaps somewhat unfortunate that its use of whitespace (and bash's use) make it so easy to write subtly incorrect programs; this is perhaps why there's such common advice to use Python, or anything not Bash. But the argument above leads me to think that `ls | parallels` would somehow work, which it cannot, for the very reasons we must use xargs -0.

I suspect this is a long way about saying "we have (somewhat more, but still not quite) sane defaults".

The correct command has always been `find . not* -print0 | xargs -0 ~/code/random/args.py`. Anything else is subject to weird corner cases of failure. It's a sad state of affairs really, and I'd love to change it. If you're just pounding out a command on the command line, you can usually ignore those corner cases, as you probably mentally know whether `ls not*` is going to cause issues or not; if you're writing a script for general use, then it's only a matter of time until it fails in interesting ways.
Yes comma but :) — We have a production app, but we are very comfortable running Hoodie in production ourselves, of course. The app has 10k registered users and some decent, but no overwhelming traffic. For similar scenarios, Hoodie is definitely ready, for others, we’d caution and recommend to get in touch with us for a more thorough evaluation.
Why there is no support for readonly in input type checkbox?
The Last Goodbye: How To Shut Down A Failing Product
GREGONOMICS: Got 40 seconds to Spare? 
Stop Studying Fools... Its only Syllabus Week, Here On GREGONOMICS
PDF secrets – hiding and revealing secrets in PDF documents
Yeah, and we've already got the TPP on the way, to keep wages low and working conditions poor, anyway.
I don't know enough about the field of statistics to argue with you. But if what you say is true, why aren't statisticians using traditional methods winning competitions and benchmarks, and taking over the field?

The "cook-book" problem is overfitting and it's pretty well known and avoidable.
I find the "and was made with love!" stuff really off-putting to be honest. Rest looks helpful though.
When AES(☢) = ☠ – a crypto-binary trick
On firefox touching the tempo slider results in tempo being NaN. Apart from that: awsome!!
Adding ?share=1 to the link helps.
Works for me on Android however usability is horrible. A decent 2d one would be cool.
Judging by the amount of upvotes, maybe more people than you think read the document...

Personally, I don't read it all but much prefer reading the sections I find most relevant than reading a summary made by someone else. Also, I think it makes for a better discussion.
A handful:

Not delegating.

Not working through others.

Not managing a group's resources.

Promoting one's self while failing to support one's boss.

Appropriating others' work as one's own.

Not growing relationships with other groups in a non-protective, non-clique, non-silo'd way.

Following, rather than questioning, organisational policies (i.e. not managing upwards).
Not really.

The ISP's have fought tooth and nail against every Government regulation to try and curb piracy or force the ISP's into compliance.

They have argued that the same laws which state the post office cannot be held responsible for malicious packages also applies to the telecommunications traffic they enable.

SkyBSB and Virgin Media lined up behind Talk Talk as prominent opposition to the Digital Economy Bill in the UK. They were simply beat down into regulatory compliance.
Generating revenue /is/ the same thing as providing a service that can afford to remain in business, though. A service that shuts its doors because it runs out of money isn't being valuable to anyone at all.

Hopefully mefi can find a way to operate within their means without compromising their important characteristics.
Can you explain?

In the UK we have 6 prominent providers with over 100+ niche providers who must (by law) be given rental agreements on the existing infrastructure.
I loved this quote:

Then came the acrobatics. It was the same as the L39 but six G's instead of
four G's and 4000 meters altitude instead of 2000 meters. At this time I realized
that the ground crew had not connected my G suit to the pneumatics in the
plane. At the bottom of every loop, my vision went from color to
black-and-white. It happened in about a second like someone pulled down a
no-color shade in front of my face. Shortly after that, the
black-and-white
faded into grey-and-grey and finally just grey. Very strange feeling.
I didn't black out but I was able to know exactly what it would feel like.
After the G's subsided, my vision returned in reverse sequence.
From a years (or even six months) perspective the points make a lot more sense. The question asked about the first few weeks as a manager :). Thanks for taking the time to clarify.
> specifying something like "TR156" does not make any sense

No, your claims are dangerous and misleading. Even if I decide not to show my real name I want to be present as a person who wrote the article. You take that away. The name of the author and the link to his profile before the start of the article are the minimum you have to do. You have to ask the author for permission before you do the translation and publish the article, using the communication mechanisms of the site from which you take the content. And you must write that it's a translated text.

Before you do all that, the way you present your material remain questionable enough to have my vote for banning the articles.
That's a confusing statement. No one is forcing you to read the S-1 and a media outlet will definitely pick up the document and write an editorial about fulfilling your desire.
Props to @codegangsta for showing a lot of people that ego doesn't belong in rational discussion about weaknesses and strengths of a framework/language/piece of software.

Fantastic attitude. Take the criticism, try to separate yourself from your instant reptilian gut feeling and improve on all that.
I meant US Airways didn't change their name from American West.
They now a branding company not a video company.

The term GoPro is used to describe any action-orientated camera in popular consumer circles. Aficionados will always use the correct terminology but my family and friends just refer to portable, waterproof, sports cameras as Go Pro's.

Even you tell them it is a Sony or X brand of helmet cam they will say "So it is like a Go Pro?"

They have become synonymous with the market like Hoover and BiC.

They also provide software services for editing footage and galleries for for you to upload your work. In time I can imagine they will expand to make the editing process as easy as possible.
While I agree with this, some of the best, most likeable, and longest-surviving managers I've worked with have had a Teflon-like quality when it comes to blame. It's not that they don't take blame, yet somehow it doesn't stick to them. They attend the meetings and post-mortems when things go wrong; but they have a superficial relationship with blame somehow. They take the issues seriously, yet it feels somehow like they're not actually to blame, even when they've been involved the whole way through. Then one day you look up and notice that they're smiling and chatting with someone on a different project team, they've moved on. Everyone will think their efforts were serious, well-intentioned, appropriate, etc. And the blame is palpably absent from them, while it clings to others like a bad smell. I'm still unsure about how it's done. I suspect it's a deeper personality trait; plain-old likeability perhaps.
Why do people persist in believing things that just aren't true?

Like God?
Experiments on "Surprise" Incentives to Participate In Online Research
Major transatlantic cable linking the EU and the US experiences outage
What's this Owin Stuff About?
Have you looked into the (re)rendering on the client? We had a similar issue with an extjs application rendering dead slow on ie9. By suspending the rendering while the app was loading/transitioning (using batchLayouts in the ext case), IE loading time improved significantly.
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client-server architecture?
There's also a short 30 second video that was submitted to the ACM CHI 2014 competition:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZJva-szO8QM
Really cool! It would be awesome to be able to save as a permalink and be able to share.
For those looking for a good Android app that uses OSM. I use Mapfactor Navigator and think it is great (I've used it in Italy, Austria, Slovenia, Crozia). It let's you use it with OSM data or Tom Tom, you can use Google for address search and use it offline if you need.

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