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Anyone having trouble logging in? Just says "There was an error while trying to retrieve Google Analytics accounts for..." I don't know if it's because I have 2FA on, but it found my account I'm guessing shared via keychain from the Gmail app.

Edit: 15+ minutes later. I deleted all accounts from my phone, tried to sign in again via the app. Looked through everything online for any permission or anything. Still stuck.
Another Singapore flight that is even closer: http://flightaware.com/live/flight/SIA351
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Is anyone familiar with TechStars RisingStars program? What are the benefits of it and how effective was it for you (if you went through it) and what are best ways to improve acceptance.
Thanks :)
Thank you so much for sharing that subreddit! It's a treasure trove.
Call me names all day, I would never get on a flight with that airline. They should really just pack it in at this point.

"These events are still rare." OK, but if there's a turd in a bowl of 10,000 Skittles, I'm not eating any of them.
Hey, You can actually record landscape videos by turning your iPhone (make sure that rotation is enabled though).
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Perhaps the way to interpret it is that most policework is as safe as normal office jobs?

Working on an oil rig, or doing light construction, probably has a much higher incidence rate of injury.
the idea of a bot is intriguing, but right now I'm manually finding founders contact info, reaching out, getting them in the system, asking them Q+A's on producthunt.com, cc'ing other relevant players in the convo, and following up with them to see how PH influenced their traffic and how we can help (which, again, founders respond gratefully for all the free traffic)

If anyone has suggestions for ways to automate part of this, as it takes a long time, i'm open!
Nimrod's pointers to garbage collected memory are separate from the pointers you can allocate yourself. So you could do manual memory management on the parts that really need it - say for a game in a tight loop - and leave the collector to worry about the smaller and less time-critical stuff.

Also the GC is only triggered on a memory allocation. It doesn't run in a background thread or anything like that. So if the GC fails, then the allocation of memory fails (as I understand it) which means your scenario would be caught early.
"I'm fully and 100% in favor of that idea though."
Good, then vote on it! I'm sure a drop in the media-influenced pond will make a difference...

Biggest, lie, ever told.
Marketing requirements document; the set of features for the next release of a product.
Just who exactly are the "terrorists" you talk about?

Do you mean the Swedish neo-nazi snipers fighting there?
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-28329329

Or are you referring to people who have taken up arms because they no longer want to be part of the Ukraine. Why not simply call these people "rebels" or "separatists"?
> The implicit contract in that case is that nobody else considers that branch to be usable until it's merged.

'not usable', then, includes not being able to link to specific sourcecode in that branch with a URL.

You pays your money and you takes your chance.
As one of the developer of this app, I'm obviously biased, but we think that we achieve even better results than Luma.

Low light is always an issue (due to intrinsic limitations of the stabilization method), but we added slo-motion and support for the iPhone 5s and iOS7.
News is reporting that US and UK airlines were strongly advised to avoid the area entirely, so that's just not true.

As a point of irritation, I can't believe that of all the controversial opinions I've voiced on this website, "planes shouldn't fly over war zones" is being downvoted as the pinnacle of stupidity.
But that's not what was being talked about here. Nokia X was low-end handsets running a forked version of Android without Google's services, including the Play Store. So you're looking at an app selection similar to what Amazon has for the Fire at best, not the full Android ecosystem. And you're not looking at premium devices. Microsoft has no interest in being another second-class Android OEM, competing with all the other companies that are losing to Samsung in that space.
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> Second, there is a lack of diversity on Product Hunt. It’s mostly white men talking to white men. “The reason for that is that Product Hunt started out with people in my network, which is still largely guys,” Hoover said. “But we’ve been actively reaching out to women in the community to ask ‘what women do you feel we should give access to comment.’ It takes a lot of time and it’s hard to show progress.”

I feel like this will probably be Product Hunt's biggest challenge going forward. Product Hunt seems like a really well-designed and well-thought-out site, but I can't get myself to use it (for now) because it seems like a direct manifestation of one of the most criticized aspects of Silicon Valley, namely its huge monoculture in which people are only building and promoting products that solve First World Problems (i.e. their own).

With all that said, I hope Product Hunt becomes the type of diverse and open community that I'm sure its founder also wants it to be.
That's very interesting and unsettling of course. But how would those guys get access to 10km high aircraft destroying weapons? Are they so well backed that they'd have access? Are they active in the same area?

(btw, it's a valid point, no need to downvote. Yes it may seem obvious that it was Russian allies, but it's important to keep an open mind in times of war, as both sides usually play dirty)
Civil wars like to strike always at the same place. But I see no reason why it would prefer any flight number or airline.
Very nice results. I sense a successful product
""Lighting does strike twice in the same place" argument"

For now the 'coincidence' of two Malaysian 777 aircraft going down within a few months is lighting striking twice.
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whats wrong with going twice through the subway gate?
Also since when you can get arrested for eating a sandwich?
Having spent time working on a million line Tcl codebase (for my sins) I can assure you that it is possible, but not in the least bit pleasant!
Hi Everyone,

We just launched answers.tenXer.com.

answers.tenXer.com is a place where software development managers can ask questions about problems or tips on how to better manage developers and teams of developers. We have assembled a panel of "experts" (software development managers with years of experience and thought leaders on software dev management) who will also be participating by answering some of the questions.

Would love any thoughts, feedback, suggestions on how we can improve it.

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Then why didn't they bring up one of the three other events, including more recent ones? Those also share that same coincidence.

It is clear that the only point in bringing up a plane crash in the 1960s as opposed to any of the others (including more recent ones, see 2007) was to make it more relevant to Americans.

Is it really an "anti-American knee-jerk" for calling people out for clearly trying to take international events and to twist them into a discussion about your own local issues/problems/incidents? It happens all the freaking time on here, and it is often by the same nationality trying to turn everything into a "well how does this apply to America?"

Also petty name calling, really?
> why is [file size] a factor so important it must be emphasized this much?

Because there is no dead code removal. All of it goes over the wire. Even the stuff you don't use.

If you use a 70kB library, you'll pay 70kB in page weight for it. Even if you only use half of it.

The Closure Compiler can remove unused code if its "advanced mode" is used. However, it requires everything to be annotated and to be written in a particular style. Very few libraries meet these requirements.

Those micro libraries and micro frameworks try to address this issue by doing only one specific thing.

[Personally, I prefer something Dart's built-in dead code removal. I really don't want to think about that stuff. Let me put 30 tween functions into one lib and simply don't ship those functions I'm not using.]
You seem to not understand how mergers and acquisitions work. There are generally large redundancies which is part of the reason for the deal. Get rid of payroll while maintaining the same total output. Also, a major reason for buying Nokia had to be it's IP. I don't think this is any way a sign the deal failed, and I'm sure it was expected by all of the executives and most of the employees.
I have come to understand the need.

If a feature branch is under development for a year, and then merged in.... you wind up with commits in master that only appeared today, but are dated (and appear in the commit history timeline) up to a year ago. It's actually a different kind of 'rewriting history', really.

This can be very confusing when trying to figure out what happened. And even worse when trying to figure out where a bug was introduced (via git bisect or manually).

Still, I, like you, try to avoid rebase history rewrites whenever possible, because they can lead to such messes. But I've come to understand why people want them, it's not just "aesthetically pleasing commit history", which sounds kind of inane I agree.

Then "only when it's not public" rule effectively means "never do it" for most people's development practices. Anything that takes longer than an hour or so for me to do is going to be in a public repo, for the 'backup' nature of making sure i don't lose it while in progress if nothing else. Anything that more than one person collaborates on (or you want code review suggestions on) obviously is going to be in a public repo. It's pretty rare feature branch work I do that never makes it into a public repo (before it's committed to master).
It doesn't make sense for a company that's trying to sell itself to also start making large cuts - it may drive your own price down by signaling that your businesses lack potential. The acquiring company will calculate in the cost (and savings) from the cuts ("synergies", to use the banking term) and just roll them into the purchase price.

So if you're the selling CEO / board, you get to claim you sold the company whole, and if you're the buyer, you just blame the cuts on the increased efficiencies to be gained from combining the companies - it's a sign that the deal is "successful" and you're achieving the synergies you modeled before the purchase.
Do you even know what the definition of at will employment is?
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Anyone know the recommended way to do interop with C and Nimrod? I've been doing Project Euler problems in Nimrod, and wanted to use some library functions from GSL for bignum support, but I couldn't really get c2nim to work with the header files.

I think that I could use the 'importc'/'dynlib' with the compiled library, but there's not a whole lot of documentation on that in the Nimrod manual, and I ended up just doing that problem in C because it was easier (read: I was lazier) to get working.
"He wants the rest of the people to first hear: "We're changing for the better, and while these layoffs are a bad thing, it's necessary pain we have to go through to be better in the long run."

Right, but the question remains, why did he not just say exactly what you just said? Why use the business school/managementese style language? Why not use language that is human and expresses empathy?
I started this comment trying to explain how Civ was not like chess at all, but concluded that the two have much in common.

There's an opening, where there are a few tried-and-true, well studied strategies, and the goal is to claim territory.

Then there's a mid-game, where all available land is claimed, and competing players start trying to steal territory from each other, and capturing the others pieces (or cities).

I can't seem to find a parallel in the end game though, it doesn't require nearly as much planning and cunning in Civ to finish of a wounded opponent as it is in chess.
> whats wrong with going twice through the subway gate?

They told me I was cheating the system. When really I was confused about what subway to take so I went back and asked the girl in the booth for help.

> ...

because I knew the people walking 5 meters ahead of me so I stopped to watch them getting arrested, and stayed 5 minutes around, so eventually they came towards me and my friends and arrested us also. We were so shocked we didn't ask why. Kept us an hour in the cold looking through our stuff etc... Tossed my sandwich to the ground (and I told them that it was littering) and finally convoked us to the court for "drinking in the streets".
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Rrriiight. Good luck making it past the Commerce Clause, trying to thieve what is an enshrined Federal power ("To regulate Commerce with foreign Nations, and among the several States, and with the Indian Tribes").

Who are these chumps that so enjoy playing with themselves in the public forum? Why do they think they're not stepping all over the constitution by imposing burdens on commercial activities that happen to intersect with NY?
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The use of it is free. It costs you no more to use the service than it would to not use it
Cops don't deserve respect automatically--they don't stand for shit:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warren_v._District_of_Columbia

If they help and are decent and promote the peace, then we should honor them. By default, though, they collect a paycheck, same as anyone else.
Many of your examples are super-valued acquisitions, paid mostly with stock funny-money, and that employ a few hundred employees at best, which makes them irrelevant to the case here, where Microsoft got 30,000 employees from Nokia.
I think it's probably time to point to a different link though. Given that there are now pictures of bodies (albeit pixelated on the page).
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still i cannot comprehend that, the software simply has to measure the number of votes...
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10Km ~ FL330. It is lower than I would expect (the higher you go the less fuel you burn) but still well above FL260.
That is very cool, indeed! =)
I'm stuck with XPath 1.0 still, because XPath 2.0 hasn't found its way to lxml yet -- it seems to be quite a lot of work to implement it.
I remember seeing this during the 'tape to car wheel' test. That was impressive.

What, if any, details can you reveal about the implementation? How is the tracking/smoothing different than other SOTA approaches?

How tightly coupled are you to the Apple environment? Is an Android port plausible?
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I would actually kind of like a product like this, so I'm not trying to be dismissive, but I have some reservations. It will be interesting to see what kind of range will be actually possible. Has an actual prototype been made? Why use shopify and not Kickstarter or IndieGogo? I'm guessing they were rejected from one of those and decided to forge their own way.

PS - two accounts were made just to comment on this post - sarx88 and kaustubhvk, seem to be sockpuppets.
With apologies (and a tip of the hat) to Mr Gates, I posit that measuring the progress of Congress by the quantities of bills they pass is roughly analogous to measuring the progress of airplane design by its weight.
Ah, perhaps if you're the MBA bean counter type. In reality, you should grow the business, because now you have much better back-office capabilities to support a more distributed, more diverse workforce. Don't be afraid of having lots of people, be afraid of not managing (supporting) them well, causing inefficiency.
I once wrote a very minimal IRC client by essentially wrapping telnet around expect. All it did was automate sending out PINGs, but it worked.
Caveat emptor.

A rule of thumb I learned from my parents long ago is when you see something you want to have, wait two weeks. If you still want it in two weeks, and can afford it, then buy it. I suspect a little bit of waiting and research would have informed these backers to the potential disaster that was coming. I remember this kickstarter and I thought it was a joke, but the fans don't want to hear that.
Crazy world
Generally when you take up arms against your country, the act is called 'treason' and proper term for the perpetrators is 'traitors.'
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Done. https://github.com/barretron/five
http://www.lrb.co.uk/v36/n12/peter-pomerantsev/diary
I've spent a lot of time recently doing a deep dive into all the academic papers in a particular field of neurobiology, and I have a different approach:

1. Read the title and abstract
2. Read the methodology
3. If the methodology isn't totally asinine, then read the rest

I discovered after reading hundreds of papers that most of them are total nonsense.

I found myself reading them and updating my "knowledge," then getting to the methodology section and realizing it was bullshit. I felt like I couldn't fully "un-update" my model when that happened, the damage was sort of done.

They make claims and they have "evidence" that sounds compelling enough to slip by some filter, but then the methodology is totally bunk. The n is way too small, or limited in some other fundamental way, the experiment design is idiotic cargo cult stuff. Obviously just going through the motions of publishing because they have to, rather than having some valuable insight. Then papers like that cite each other, and build this whole wobbly network, full of sound and fury, and signifying nothing.

I've learned to totally ignore any paper that I haven't read the methodology for first.
For general C/Nimrod interop see these Rosetta Code tasks:

http://rosettacode.org/wiki/Call_a_foreign-language_function...

http://rosettacode.org/wiki/Call_a_function_in_a_shared_libr...

http://rosettacode.org/wiki/Use_another_language_to_call_a_f...

Making c2nim work with header files can be a bit difficult. The main information is here: http://nimrod-lang.org/c2nim.html

When something throws an error I comment it out and try to see if I can fix it up by hand.
Source? (Not doubting, just seeking confirmation).
About 20% of the people I work with use Windows. None of them are developers.
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I really suck at pretending I am not. Well I am more touchy about wrong culture and wrong fit than about culture fit.
The plane was shot down deep in territory controlled by the rebels.

Here's where it was shot down: https://www.google.com/maps/place/Torez,+Donetsk+Oblast,+Ukr...

Here's the territory controlled by the rebels: http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2014/02/27/world/europe/u...

We know Russia has been supplying the rebels with heavy weapons. It's unlikely that Ukrainian pro-Kiev "neo nazis" marched a heavy SAM launcher through rebel controlled territory. Also, in any case, it doesn't follow that because someone is a "neo nazi" they will shoot down aircraft.
Your friend is right, but Wall Street won't listen to him because it means fewer quantifiable metrics for Wall Street to latch onto to evaluate (or pretend to evaluate) how well the company is doing. The analysts would then have to evaluate based upon actually understanding the company in depth, meaning they have to invest more hours into analysis and cover fewer companies, and reduce their own effectiveness/profitability. Not understanding the business at a deep level in this situation is a feature for Wall Street, not a bug. "It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it!"
Cool! Will look into it!
This is similar to the PhD filter. You have to find folks who have the right balance between theory and practice.
Admittedly, the World Congress is from the Brave New World expansion; I found the base Civ5 to be a lot more enjoyable without it.
Sure, but he wasn't talking about coverage but about fear of flying. Very few people are afraid of riding a train in the same sense that many are afraid of flying in a plane. It's an interesting point.
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Early warning defense systems are configured to look for specific events, particularly missile launch signatures. They would likely be scanning wide areas and automatically record launch signatures, possibly then tasking optical or other sensors on the specific region, in realtime.

Some launch areas are well-known (e.g., fixed land-based silos), some aren't (e.g., mobile launchers, submarines). So a wide-area detection capability is almost certain, though whether this includes arbitrary land surface areas is an interesting question. I'd be inclined to think so.
Police should be bonded. That way you price-in individual liability ahead of time.
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This. I'm on the lookout for expressive, statically typed, native code compiling languages for game development. Currently poking around with Rust, since Go seems to pretty much be settled on not doing the custom expressibility thing. Nimrod looks like something I'd really want to like, the game stuff I do doesn't really need Rust's hardcore garbage collection avoidance, but the ecosystem sparsity just scares me off. Meanwhile, Rust has both reasonably heavy institutional support and an impressive swarm of adventurous game developers with a C++ background working on stuff for it. I'm banking on Rust mostly for the potential ecosystem strength in being the only alternative to C++ for a high level of abstraction don't pay for what you don't use language.
If you're a going concern-- simply use your company/business email address, also include your digits and physical address in the signature line. As a point of communication strategy-- personalize the note, be concise and buttoned-up.
Thanks for the note. I guess the numbers are so obvious for me that I didn't expect others to react so differently.
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> We know Russia has been supplying the rebels with heavy weapons.

More than that, we know the rebels themselves claim to have captured exactly the sort of weapon that would be able to do this (Buk missiles) from a raid on a Ukrainian military base.
We had a neighbor that did that; he'd hang out on the porch with a bullhorn and chase after cars. It always scared the crap out of me, because some of the people speeding down our street are probably not smart to mess with.
An independent investigation needs to look at this tragedy and figure out what happened. I think everyone would agree on that.

I just think it's ridiculous that minutes after the event, some Ukranian officials start finger-pointing and people want to believe them because they have been conditioned to associate Russia with bad things.

Up until yesterday, 99% of the people reading this thread had probably never even heard of a Buk, yet suddenly everybody's an expert. Might as well accept neo-nazis could have done it, after all, look what Brevik did to those kids in Norway and his reasoning.

Yes, this tragedy may be due to the separatists but it could also easily have been a mistake by the Ukrainians. In fact, a British major was just on TV saying that they could have accidentally shot down the plane because their air defence is "slack".

At the end of the day, look at this thread and see how quickly people are to blame Russia. It must be a Pavlovian response of some sort.
Sorry explain exactly why MS deserve to make more money than the actual Company investing all the R&D into developing Android OS just because they can use their cash warchest to acquire offensive patents they're anti-competitively using to artificially inflate the cost of their competitor products?

Is this the kind of ideal use of software patents that rewards innovators and end-consumers?