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Heh, HN doesn't report individual comment scores accurately; my account is at -9 now but this comment stays at -4.

It's funny to imagine anything like Reddit's (?|?) controversy here.
Show HN: Check how smooth your web page scrolls - rendering performance tests
Show HN: Popstar CMS - file-based cms that acts as an API to .md files
Thanks. That's much clearer and a good pitch. And it addresses a pain point with other services. You should put similar, concise text on the home page. Even using a cheesy tagline like "Get More With Less".

For women especially, highlight the $50 fee as means of filtering out the skeezy, stalky losers that proliferate on other sites. Highlight the exclusive, higher-quality service you're trying to build.
Because rich people can afford to lose their money, but you presumably cannot.

Or more cynically, because only rich people are allowed to be rich.
Why not use media queries to apply screen-appropriate CSS?
I wouldn't go as far as crowdsourcing quite yet, but yes, all in disguise. So from the users point, they hardly have any work to do when it comes to the searching. And we'll let them know how the search goes from our end :)
Reason for reading: if you are anything like me and like old manuals with cross section illustrations, advice on valve adjustment etc.
Do you have adblock? Disabling that fixed it for me.
NASA to send 3D Google smartphones for robots to space station
It definitely marks you as someone not to be trusted. And I do not think women will continue to feel so comfortable on the site once she knows you use the trick. After all, any women at that site can be paid/competing man posing as women.
Question One: DO YOU WANT TO BECOME A LAWYER?

Lots of people go to law school without any clear idea or ambition of actually pursuing a career as a lawyer, because they think law just sounds interesting, or it's what everyone tells them to do, or because they watch too many TV lawyer shows. This is a Very Bad Idea. You will be taking on a huge amount of debt in exchange for a credential that will not make you substantially more employable in any other field than law.

Question Two: ARE YOU SURE YOU WANT TO BECOME A LAWYER?

There is a glut of J.D.s out there currently, far more than there are real legal jobs available (see http://www.newrepublic.com/article/87251/law-school-employme...). This means competition is fierce for the jobs that do open up, and that pay for young lawyers tends to suck more than they generally expect. (Which exacerbates the "holy moley look at all that debt I rang up to go to law school" problem, too.)

Question Three: ARE YOU SMART ENOUGH TO GET INTO A TOP-TIER LAW SCHOOL?

If answered "yes" to Questions One and Two, you need to take a hard look at your admissions credentials (LSAT scores, references, etc.) and appraise honestly whether they're good enough to get you into a really, really good law school, because if you want to stand out in that sea of newly minted J.D.s, the only 100% reliable method is to have a degree from a seriously impressive school. Going into debt to get a J.D. from Harvard or Yale or Penn or Duke is a reasonably sensible long-term financial proposition; going into debt to get one from Bob's Chicken-Fried Steak Shack and School of Law, much less so.
D's metaprogramming is significantly more powerful. For example, string literals can be template arguments and can be manipulated at compile time and turned back into D code.
I get what you're saying... but as a journalist you are surely aware that you're already on at least a few dozens commercial PR lists that you never asked to be on, right?
The salary numbers are all tongue in cheek, although its pretty common for entry level game industry programmers to make $60K or less. For comparison the producer makes $100K, which is way above the average producer salary (~$75K) and almost twice entry level producer salary.
The big question is how the court could rule in a dispute between two US companies, by seizing the defendants domains without even hearing the defendant.

How is that possible in a state of justice? How anyone dares to run a company in a state where you are not allowed to defend yourself in court escapes me.

I can not believe this is the normal legal process. There must have been some extraordinary circumstances that I am not aware of. I would be very interested to hear what they are.

(Given that Microsoft probably hasn't got more legal rights than anyone else, could No-IP do the same to Microsoft? Surely Azure is the host of a few of them C&C servers.)
Sorry, but I rather lose a million jobs than exposing my country to lawsuits because a democratic decision interfered with the business of some big company.
best bit:

"They had a specific date to ship, and a fixed number of engineering resources. They knew their bug count had to glide down to zero by X date, and some bugs had to sadly be resolved "Won't fix." If a PM doesn't hit their schedule and ship, they get fired. This bug had to be punted."

diffuse responsibility, give some folks one-sided power, and you've got a Parreto-efficient race to the bottom.
Show HN: Browse and take photos/videos at the same time
> "Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach"

I think it is one of the best books written on any topic ever period.

It is kinda advanced but also brilliant, and was a turning point in my decision to master hacking.

> Now I am reading "Two Scoops of Django" and enjoying it A LOT.

It's closer to a beginner/intermediate level, and it brings me a lot of joy and excitement about programming.

> Another one is "Hackers & Painters", of course. PG is brilliant, nuff said.

His book "ANSI Common Lisp" is definitely on the top of my reading list, I've already started and it is great.

> Just to mention, a little less technical book is "Ghost In The Wires" by Kevin Mitnick, a famous hacker.

I'm listening the audiobook now and it is really inspiring, entertaining and fantastic.
Python is now the most popular introductory language at top U.S. universities
If it's to protect old people why is that not part of the law?

To those downvoting: This is a response to those who use the terms 'grandma' and 'grandpa' in their comments, not an avocation of these laws, or age discrimination.
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The question is whether fracking is increasing strain in faults, or releasing strain that already exists.

If fracking is simply lubricating small movements along faults that are already under strain, it might actually be improving public safety. Many small earthquakes would definitely be preferable to a single big one.
Thinking Big with Nach
there is no last block...
There's also the (lower these days, thankfully) risk of half-baked tools other people use proudly presenting your rÃ©sumÃ©.
I denied location access and Facebook never asks me anything more than once.
Not too surprised.
The blog is just a plain attempt to make money. Random posts and a lot of them with huge number of ads.
One possibility is companies that make electronic devices for this; not all of it is classical embedded, BTW, or at least so I remember from one small company I interviewed at which used Visual Basic in the '90s and at least a bit beyond, although I can't remember exactly what they were doing. That won't be traffic engineering per se, but will be a part of it.

Various units of government with responsibility for high traffic and congestion road system set up command centers of a sort, with lots of cameras, the ability to change signaling systems, put messages up on signs, maybe even open or close entrance gates and the like. In the center I worked at for a while (on their abandoned bespoke software), they also dispatched or coordinated with crews to do work.

Which brings up one issue, working for or with the government has its own special characteristics, and is going to be inevitable in this sort of career.

Good luck!
The Epicurean Dealmaker's thoughts (he's an MD for some big shot bank):
http://epicureandealmaker.blogspot.com/2014/07/you-go-first....
Basically a price-alert, right? Heard this from a few users now and have put that down as a likely addition for the next iteration. Thanks!
You're right in that people often comment that D has too many features, and btw please add X, Y and Z features!
edit: forget my answer. I didn't read them as ebooks

for plain books:

Windows Internals by Solomon and Russinovich

AI: A modern Approach by Russell and Norvig
Actually, the Google Spreadsheet wrapper on APISpark (http://apispark.com) is one of our most popular features!
Because discrimination based on age is illegal (and looked down upon)?

anyway: It's not only the elderly that can be conned
"The message from the company basically is they'd prefer the sysadmin to spend their nights and weekends figuring out problems, instead of making a small payment for support service."

So... if there's a friday night problem, you'd prefer staff to just be hanging, chillin' at home, and then when pressed, say "we created a ticket with redhat, nothing more to do!" ?

Critical breakages should keep people working until stuff is fixed. If you want to also pay a bit extra and involve external support people, that's fine, but it's not a magic bullet that just 'fixes' everything. You've now got to account for time to manage working with external support staff, making sure you can get them in to the affected systems, etc.
Well, if there is a bad review that has a response from the company, that reflects well in my opinion, unless there are a large number of them.

Not sure if it's possible for vendors on Yelp to reply to their customers in the forum, but I see this all the time on Amazon.
I guess the only other option is second-party hosting.
Ask HN: Making Front End Work Suck Less?
Background: CS degree, roughly a decade of experience in a lot of different parts of information security. These days I've become a bit of a generalist with a lean towards networking, protocols and working on what I think of a data-centric development projects. A couple of years ago we were trying to find a frontend guy, and for whatever reason had no luck so I went back and taught myself a bit.

These days I end up doing a lot of solo projects, full stack. DB, actual code, front end, etc. Essentially everything but the visual design.

I've realized though, the frontend (html/js/css) take an inordinate amount of time compared to everything else. Outsourcing doesn't seem to help, as even with local people with good reputations I end up spending about as much time correcting and managing them to get the same results as I can produce.

Love ruby for my high level language so I'm using rails on most everything, and as friendly of a stack as I can find. Slim, Scss, Coffeescript, bootstrap or the bourbon ecosystem for my starting framework. It is a lot better than it could be, but honestly it still sucks. Everything about the web portion seems to be crud layered on top of crud.

I had some downtime recently and spent it with some procedural content generation, a couple thousand lines over the course of a few days. Implementing interesting algorithms and stitching them together instead of the repeatedly beating state onto a stateless medium that is the modern web.

So, realizing the power of the web and the tradeoffs being worth it, even with it being a time sink. I'm wondering if any of you with more of a background in non-web development have any tips that helped you become more comfortable on the web side and maybe even enjoy it?
D is all up on https://github.com/D-Programming-Language so I think it'd be kind of hard to sneak things into it.
Am I missing something? This was submitted two hours ago, yet the images (CentOS-6.5-x86_64-bin-DVD1.iso) are the same that I had downloaded on 6/20/2014. The release notes list the new image names, but they don't appear to be pushed out to the mirrors.
It mentions everquest multiple times so this must be ancient.
With Chrome on OSX I can see what he means - "new" (but already cached) pictures still flicker, the old ones do not. So it can't be caching.
IMO, 4k is pretty high for this.
According to No-IP's previous official statement, the order was served without prior notice: http://www.noip.com/blog/2014/06/30/ips-formal-statement-mic.... Courts do not have carte blanche - they have laws that govern the bounds of their authority. The implication of the parent comment is that even if Microsoft was given a court order, it wasn't necessarily legal for the court to do so.
Random impressions:

- The "Home", "Sign In" and "Sign Up" links at the top of the main page don't go anywhere. The "Home" link is unnecessary. The "Sign In" and "Sign Up" links should go to anchor tags at the sign in and sign up forms.

- The Birthdate drop down menus are broken for me on the sign up form. I only see a vertical scroll bar when I select the day and month, and I have both vertical and horizontal scroll bars when I select the year.

- The What I Want page should initially has nothing selected in each box. I think each option should start populated with "Anything". That way if I don't care about pets one way or another, I don't have to waste a few clicks setting it. Or do I need to actually change an option from "Choose Option" to "Anything"? It's unclear.

- When I finally select everything in the "What I Want" page, the red text "Please choose an option for each field." doesn't go away. Did I not select everything well enough?

- At the bottom of the "What I Want" page you have every percentage listed from 16/16 to 0/16. Is that really necessary?

- The Profile page has square images on top of other users, but when I resize my browser window too small horizontally they're squished into rectangles. In addition, those images are huge! It took a few seconds for them to load the first time I visited the page. They should probably be resized. Also, perhaps profile images should be stored as jpegs instead of pngs?

- Search form, perhaps it should be pre-populated with the options that I chose on the "What I Want" page? And again, even when I have every option selected, it still says "Please choose an option for each field."

- On someone's profile, under their Personality Type, there's a yellow circle that on mouseover says "They don't have your preferred personality type, but keep reading!". What? When did I specify a preferred personality type?

On a whole, it looks well done for a MVP. Some other people have criticized the lack of design, but personally, I like the minimalist look. These are just first impressions, I hope they help.

FYI, I'm using Firefox 29.0 on Linux.
Given that there's been...

• …an immense explosion in available knowledge; and…

• …many new ways for non-accredited investors to invest and lose all their money in highly-leveraged public equities, real-estate, foreign-exchange, and other vehicles; and…

• …no appreciable complaints from existing accredited investors that they wish they'd been prevented from investing their own money in private equities;

...thus the SEC must be looking into reducing the thresholds, in the spirit of the JOBS Act, to let more Americans invest in innovative upstarts? Right? Right?
D has been compatible with C libraries since the beginning.
subtext looks interesting. Is it being developed in the open at all? Versions for download? The page looks like one of those shop windows covered in white putty to stop you looking in.
> Make sure you try the CLI! sudo npm install -g resume-cli

Regarding that: I recently reached the fed-up point with sudo or not sudo to install nodejs app and the mess it leaves behind when using sudo for just installing some local binaries.

I stumbled upon nvm[0] when installing docpad:

> The above should not require sudo (the # means sudo). If it does, we recommend reinstalling Node.js so that it doesn't. Otherwise you're likely to run into permission problems in the future. Follow the Step 1 instructions to reinstall Node.js without requiring sudo.[1]

Which led me to this:

> http://learn.bevry.me/node/install

and then this:

> https://github.com/creationix/nvm

It makes npm installs everything under $HOME and never needs to be ran with escalated privileges. `nvm install X.X` and `nvm use X.X` allows switching between node versions and installed packages.

[0] https://github.com/creationix/nvm

[1] http://docpad.org/docs/install
If I understand the idea correctly you have two sources of input: users inputting links to new web shops and polling existing web shops.

If a user asks enters a product that is already in the database and you already have a better price, notify him in a mail a few minutes later that you have a better price and he will be impressed.

If a user enters a product that is already in the database and he has a better price, -send the first user a notification.

Additionally you will habe a growing number of sources for anything tjat you can poll and mine.
Geez! That guy on the thumbnail for the first video (Clean Code - The Last Programming Language) looks really angry. I don't think I want to learn anything from that.
Because our laws are increasingly written for the least common denominator. Some citizens might be scammed by these investments; therefore, we all must forgo the ability to spend our own money on them. Its hard not to be cynical and see this as another leg in a race towards mediocrity.
I would consider looking at the following books:

http://www.amazon.com/Beginning-Java-Objects-Concepts-Editio...

http://www.amazon.com/Program-Development-Java-Specification...
Last mined block. I assume she (he?) was talking about the last block for which a block discovery fee is paid.
Isn't there a service that works with restaurants to allow them to sell their own reservations?
Years ago, while working at a VC firm (in the office pool) my wife got to pick her own title. I convinced her briefly to go with business cards with the title: Floccinaucinihilipilificatrix
Generally agreed, but I would make an exception for question three: if you want to practice certain types of law, it can pay to go to a school where you want to practice. If you want to do prosecution or defense of criminal cases, this seems to be true, I suppose in part because a lot of people in that business teach as adjuncts.

(I am not a lawyer, but I know a bunch of them.)
Well yes, for physical transactions there is the back compat issue, but hopefully as more countries take up the scheme (hint hint USA) we'll have less and less need of fallback.

I agree that a system for verifying/authorising specific amounts for online transactions would be a good thing, and I agree that the "here's my card info, charge what you like" model is a bad one.
I acknowledge that there are plenty of very smart people in finance (especially in quant roles). I said:

There are plenty of 135+ in finance, but either they go for trading and quant or even IT roles, or they move to "the soft side" at a higher level: usually at least VP.

Smart people tend to avoid competing on hours. Why? Because if you're putting out a 17-hour day (which is necessary at the entry level on "the soft side") anything that is a disadvantage can (no, will) derail you. That includes being too smart for the work. So they prefer trading and quant jobs where the hours are reasonable and also where the work is more interesting and they're not as much at risk of high-IQ problems.

[P]ay and career advancement are much better [in finance than software].

Absolutely. This is completely true. Any idea what we should do about this in engineering? (Or just call it hopeless and exit for finance?)
inflation - economics; a general increase in prices and fall in the purchasing value of money.

https://www.google.com/webhp?espv=2&es_th=1&ie=UTF-8#q=defin...

So is the "Everything Boom" going to be the new polite way of saying inflation is happening? I mean that is the expected outcome of the economic policies of the past several years is it not?
> It is kinda advanced

I disagree. It's used as an introductory book on AI classes and it's a very broad book covering enough surface on different AI topics. But if you want to go deep, you have to dig into academic papers
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Because of literally hundreds of years of investment scams that bilk people out of their life savings. Publicly traded companies are subject to various securities regulations that require disclosure of certain pertinent information and protect investors in various ways. Smaller companies can be exempt from many of these regulations (which is a useful thing, as it costs money to comply), but in exchange, they don't get to ask every random person they encounter on the street for investments. The alternative isn't to lift all the restrictions; rather, it is to impose the same regulations on companies big and small alike, which would be particularly harmful to small businesses.

Call it a nanny state restricting your liberty if you'd like (though realistically, there's little enforcement of the investor accreditation rules), but since it's the same nanny state that is supposed to keep you from being destitute if things don't work out, we're going to impose some restrictions to keep the worst abuses from happening first.
Same issue and I don't have adblock.

chrome error: Cannot read property '0' of undefined

firefox error: v.tweets is undefined
Introducing Plagiarism Detection on CodeEval
You probably don't know how often your safety is put at risk by cars because you aren't aware of what is going on inside the cars. There are accidents every year in which distracted drivers, or those reacting to them, encroach upon pedestrian areas like sidewalks or crosswalks.
I wonder why they didn't include the commit history in the RakNet repository though - https://github.com/OculusVR/RakNet
Cision and Vocus provide similar services and charge a whole lot more than $9/month.

I'm pretty sure Crunchbase employs people to keep it up to date. We're listed and I don't think anyone here added us. I'm guessing they extract data on funding from SEC filings.
I always scare of CentOS/Fedora. Whenever I updated something, it will be very old packages. Leading to use 3rd repo, and without any kind of document, the next sysadmin will be in trouble. I used to install Gearman on Centos 5.9 and it was a nightmare: the original 3rd repo didn't have gearman and I have to use other repo which is complain about PHP-Common conflicting. Remi and webtactic did help at the end.

It's hard to keep Centos Update to date with latest software IMHO.

I'm not an SysAdmin but I think the idea of APT and YUM is same but why it's so hard/trouble to use YUM?
I open sourced the code so that, it will be helpful to others if they need this.
Because 1929.
And you know what the best part about leaving the game industry is? Writing a long open-letter blog post explaining why you're leaving the game industry. Plus follow-up posts responding to other game developers.
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So what he's saying is that the bitcoin network can not handle the typical volume of transactions? So you have to prioritize things? If it can't do it now, today, when it's small, there is simply no way bitcoin is going to grow, which is troubling for the future of bitcoin.

Right now miners aren't creating full 1MB blocks because each transaction has a pretty high orphan cost, but this can be fixed (as mentioned in the post).

The requirement that every transaction is recorded forever is already causing problem ... Instead a completely different method should be used: A cleanup cycle where old blocks are consolidated and discarded.

This is more or less being worked on under the name "ultimate blockchain compression".

Miners will not continue to mine just for fees

It's not obvious that this is the case, but there could be a problem if the 1MB block size limit is still in place at the next reward halving.