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>There is a quality called "contentment". Ask yourself a question? If Europe was poor/ignorant/weak and East can exploit them, then they could have been used as slaves, right? After all, that was easy. Isn't it?

The Arab and Ottoman Empires invaded Europe from the East, repeatedly, which is actually what brought Classical literature back to Europe, triggering the Renaissance and leading to Europe going on an expansionist streak to fight back (and then for power and gold, of course).

Your lack of knowledge is shown by your generalizing over "the East", as if Indian, Japanese, Chinese, Arab, Persian, Turkish, Russian, and Byzantine empires all had some "essential Easternness" in common.

And then of course there's the issue that the Chinese Empire did have many expansionist periods, which were only really blocked from reaching Europe by such barriers as Mongolian armies preventing them reaching through Siberia and several different mountain ranges to their south and west, which were easier to trade through than to invade through. Oh, and of course we mustn't forget the Indian and Middle Eastern empires that would try to block a Chinese colonization of Europe on grounds that it was their turf.
Thank you for the pointer to the videostream app. I've been wondering how to do this for a couple weeks now!
Pretty much[1], but the growth is at 50% a year as opposed to 60% so networks get slower compared to processors from the same generation, combine this with Kryder's Law[2] which states that magnetic storage grows at something like 100% a year and we have the fact that the internet is most likely a fad which will pass once we can store essentially all the information we could possibly need in a convenient physical package.

It will be literally cheaper and faster to send homing pigeons with hard drives around their necks than to have to wait for the same amount of data to be downloaded [3] and [4] will become a viable way of implementing ip.

Probably the first industry to be hit by this new disruption will be music or books when every song/book in the world could be stored on a phone. For example the spotify library at 320kbps would take up something like 250 Terabytes, which will be the size of a laptop hard drive in 8 years give or take.

The upside to this is that movie studios will probably push 16k screens and extremely high frame rates to keep files big enough that you can't just have one drive with a few thousand movies on it.

[1] http://www.nngroup.com/articles/law-of-bandwidth/

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Kryder

[3] http://www.smh.com.au/technology/technology-news/carrier-pig...

[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IP_over_Avian_Carriers
I use Inconsolata in most applications except emacs.

I'm using a fairly old version of emacs without Xft2 support so use codec[1] with it.

[1] http://www.all-day-breakfast.com/cannam/codec.html
Disclaimer: I'm a Haskeller who prefers Vim.

I think the reason for Emacs dominance is mostly historical: early on it was probably due to good capability for integrating a REPL process. Also since it is written in a lisp and can be grown organically to fit almost any purpose it developed an ecosystem of useful tools more quickly than Vim - attracting more developers who further developed tooling.

Today the only feature you can't get in Vim that Emacs has is structured haskell mode. I haven't used that enough to know if its worth the switch...

I DID try to switch and while none of this is a real show-stopper and it all could be fixed - I spent a dozen hours on trying to get an Emacs setup with all the features I have in Vim and simply couldn't. For example the auto-complete plugins do not list the type signatures in the pop-up window like neco-ghc does and there is nothing that comes close to fugitive. Also Emacs has an hdevtools plugin for flycheck but I doubt its used much because it doesn't even have a way to pass command line arguments so I had to go hack that in myself. Hdevtools is a killer feature, having instant compilation feedback is incredibly useful in Haskell...it makes it so easy to use the type system interactively while designing a new module. I did get hdevtools to work eventually but I would have to learn emacs lisp to get it working right and since there are other gaps I never put in the effort. I could never figure out how to launch a ghci process with custom arguments...I want the damn REPL to be launched with cabal repl so that it has the same environment as my code and ... I'm sure its easy if you know what you are doing, but I spent at least a couple of hours on that alone and failed. I spent probably 3-4 hours getting Evil working the way I want, things like imap keybinds required a lot of research for some reason. I did get it to work though...Emacs without Evil is not even a contender in mind - modal editing is just way to powerful and my left pinky will be out the goddamn door if I make it pound chords all day.
Because you need to come up with a design for the cursive variant and then draw all those glyphs.

So the time needed is probably shorter than the time spent on the regular variant, but only by a small factor, certainly not orders of magnitude.
I got a OnePlus One - a device from China that is on 4.4.4 and where the developers promised (yeah, okay.. Just words so far) a timely upgrade to the next version (”3 month after AOSP release").
Realtime anomalies detection for periodic time series
Hack: Would you buy an app that hacks Tinder
I am a software engineer and a bit of hacker. Recently I've been using tinder to meet new people (before you jump to conclusions, i've never had a problem socializing the 'old' way).

One evening I was chatting with some colleagues and friends at a tech meetup event and realised that most of those who are Tinder tend to swipe right on more profile that necessary and only consider their choices once they find a match.

Which got me thinking, if there are a lot of guys doing this out there, would it be profitable to create an automated software to aid in their search? I poked around the Tinder API and found a way to auto-like 100's or even 1000s of profile an hour, the ultimate question is though, is this something people would like to buy. I know how unethical this all sounds, but there's a need out there that needs to be full filled.

I wanted to find out how the tech community feels about such apps that piggy back on existing infrastructure, but most importantly, will people actually need or want such an app?
It's worse than that. We "got good" at agriculture by industrializing it and concentrating most of it in arid regions.

Something like 80% of lettuce comes from the California desert and the declining water supply of the Colorado river. Much if your grain and soybean crop is being fed by groundwater in the Midwest where the aquifers are in decline. Meanwhile, prime farmland in the east is underutilized because the plots are too small. My supermarket in New York is full of Mexican and Californian tomatoes in mid august!

That's a fundamentally bad situation, and I think the potential consequences are obvious.
http://www.datacentermap.com/usa/california/

There's 34 listed just for San Jose and Santa Clara...
I like Ubuntu Mono, but on some screens (probably depending on antialiasing settings?) it looks too fuzzy and I switch to Inconsolata. It seems one of those two will look good in any setting. Or if I have to deal with no anti-aliasing, Proggy TT is a nice (small, ~9pt) monochrome font.
Build your own...

http://input.fontbureau.com/preview/
Percentage is also a terrible metric for that, because it ignores total population.

Taking the argument to an extreme: 100% of the people that exactly match my profile play video games (ie, I play games), but that doesn't mean they should focus a retarget on me and ignore their other clients.

From US census data[0]:

112 million people are 18-44, while only 97 million people are 45+, with only 62 million in the 45-64 range (which is probably most of the older video game players).

So there needs to be a 15% higher percentage of older game players (assuming they all play) or an 80% higher percentage of older game players if we use just the 45-64 group.

Certainly, either case requires more than a "slightly higher" percentage for them to be the main market for games, ignoring any differences in amount of money or time spent gaming (which is also a significant pattern).

[0]: http://www.census.gov/prod/cen2010/briefs/c2010br-03.pdf (Table 1)

Edit:

The comment to which I was replying was deleted, but I'll repost it here for context (minus the poster name).

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> According to data collected by the Entertainment Software Association, the percentage of people over 50 years old playing games is slightly higher than the percentage of people under 50 playing games. We ARE your audience.

It would be interesting to adjust that data for amount of time spent gaming and amount of money spent on gaming related products.

Somehow I don't get the impression that COD servers at peak times are rammed full of senior citizens.
Built in. "Clip This Page" or "Clip This Selection". It is a single keypress in FireFox for me.
Probably for instant copy buttons.
Fira Mono is really beautiful, but the problem I have with it is the vertical spacing. The lines are so far apart, almost nothing fits in the screen.
> I don't know. What I do know is that we should let people use/do what they want to their bodies. Will this have negative effects? Sure, they might, they might not. Personal choice trumps any sort of wide/vague societal benefits, otherwise society is just a bunch of tyrants. As long as what individuals do doesn't physically harm anyone, then they should be allowed to do it.

Eh, I dunno. I can see both sides of it. I worry that heroin is basically an advertiser's wet dream and you'd see all sorts of shady shit encouraging addiction. On the other hand we've already semi-successfully navigated those waters with tobacco. But then, I don't see people on the street in the bronx willing to blow someone for a cigarette. Maybe that's because it's legal. I dunno. Seems like something we should investigate before making policy decisions.

There're a lot of factors to be considered and "personal choice trumps all" is just as silly of an axiom as the opposite. There's a plethora of disallowed personal choices that the vast majority of people would agree are net positives for society, if only because "doesn't harm anyone else" is a very gray area.
Luxi mono, because it has the most attractive serifs I've seen.
If no one is hiring them anyway they have nothing to lose, and the payoff can be quite large.

http://www.dailynews.com/general-news/20140227/66-year-old-m...

Note that insulting "jokes" were a factor.
No, I'm the same way too. I've never even thought about changing the font in IDEs or terminal.
Glad to hear you like the package. You can connect an external Postgresql db but the package indeed expects to install Postgresql itself.
... seismic hazard in Northern California, where pretty much all the large Internet companies are based, along with a zillion startups. [..] All of these headquarters are going to be shut down for a long time when the Big One comes. You're going to notice it.

What we'll notice is not having filters for the pictures of our Starbucks cups. The demographic of teenage girls in malls will be devastated.

Silicon Valley is no longer the epicenter of technology; it's the epicenter of the fashion of technology.
China targets own operating system to take on likes of Microsoft, Google
There's a simple rule I follow to solve that problem: If it goes in the sidebar (or a toolbar) it should be an SVG. It's the only way to ensure it will fit and scale no matter the screen size or device. With media queries you can even ensure that they get spaced properly (need more space between icons on smaller screens).

Pictures are they only problem that needs to be solved at this point.
You are right. From reading the comments on the issue [2], this seems to be the reason why it takes so long. Although I have now idea of how fonts are made, I think the work needs to be done for all currently available weights (7 different weights).
Thanks for the article! I have been happily using just haskell-mode for a long time, but as soon as I get back home from my vacation with my grand kids I will work through the suggestions.

I have been using various Lisps professionally since 1981 and the more I use Haskell, it seems like just another Lisp but with a different syntax, because of the interactive, bottom up development style.
I used this font since more than a year.
It's great but a week ago I started using Source Code Pro.
I've never understood why someone would ever want to work in the game industry, regardless of their age. It's full of people who are willing to make absurd sacrifices just so they can make games.

It's a much more rational decision to write code for a "boring" industry. You're still honing your software engineering prowess and gaining experience, but you're getting paid a lot more and not being required to work ridiculous hours - a win-win situation.
Would you like to see your daughter or mother denied benefits because she turned down a job offer from a brothel?

Or father, or son. Given that it tends to be mostly male customers, we would presumably see straight men having welfare withdrawn because they refuse to let other men have sex with them for money.
I rolled my comment into my previous comment and deleted the superfluous one.
I used to use Anonymous Pro, now I use Consolas.
Behind the App: The Story of Alfred
The details are of course confidential. He says:

"There are reasons I’m not going to dig into the details of the case. Certain people that were involved could easily be pinpointed by revealing technical details that could be pieced together with news reports, and help build a story in your mind that would probably be inaccurate. The details aren’t so important as the errors that were made. All you need to know from a technical perspective is right here: some of the types of information that these commercial tools were (and likey still are) misreporting is significant. Evidence and timestamps of a device erasure event. Evidence of a backup restore event. Application usage dates. Application deletion events and timestamps. File access times. This, and many other types of artifacts are often either completely overlooked by numerous commercially sold, expensive-as-hell tools, or in the case of at least one tool – seemingly made up data. All of these came into play in this case and would later play a role in its outcome."
The glyphs can look completely different in italic. http://www.fffranziska.com/#sec_italics And after drawing the glyphs, manually checking and adjusting the kerning between every pair of glyphs takes a lot of time too.
I'm pretty sure that on an absolute scale, Second Life and The Sims are not actually very popular at all.
Except he is the Commander-in-Chief of the entire armed forces. And he gave an order for gitmo, a military prison, to close. Which means everyone that shows up to work there every day is in serious violation of an order from a superior.

Everything else is just words. He ordered it closed, it should be covered in dust and tumbleweeds by now with not a person to be found.
>For one, insensitivity. There could be some victims even today, and you're talking casually about an event that will wipe out the Valley and S.F.

I don't see why tragedy should stop us from thinking rationally about the situation.

>Second, most data centers are in tons of places for redundancy. Google, Microsoft, Amazon, etc etc. Even low cost providers like Linode And Digital Cloud have redundant data centers in 3-4 locations around the wolds.

The problem is that something between 1/3 to 1/2 of all connections to Asia pass through California[1].

>Third, ever done a ping to Australia? When most of your users are in the US, it's not really a good idea to have data travel halfway around the world and back. Even if anything else improves, the speed of light will remain constant.

The machine I have in Sydney pings 60ms to MIT on average. Caltech, UWS and UCLA are all down from there which probably has something to do with the Earthquake.

>Fourth, you think Valley based datacenters are not built to endure earthquakes? That they are just some dumb houses or something with racks inside?

Are the cables made of magic unicorn hair that doesn't break? Because if [2] or [3] happens I don't care how much like a bunker your data center is, it's not talking to anyone. Which also leads back to the problems in number 2, namely, far too much bandwidth passes through California for how dangerous it is.

[1] https://www.technocrates.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/subm...

[2] http://www.geerassociation.org/GEER_Post%20EQ%20Reports/Ital...

[3] http://www.cloacina.org/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/crac...
Fallout from campus sexual assault hysteria: College men now suspicious of women
"Need"? No. "Benefit from"? Yes. For example, see Ian Piumarta's work on http://www.viewpointsresearch.org/html/writings.php , eg. "An association-based model of dynamic behaviour"
Reminds me of a program from the demo disk that came with my C64.
A Driving School in France Hits a Wall of Regulations
Your comment is both incorrect and childish and this is actually an important and interesting topic, please don't participate on HN discussions with comments like this.
Because it seems like a high status career choice when you are 21, other 21 year olds will be jealous.

It's also a good place to get a lot of practical experience actually writing code, ex games programmers tend to be pretty good at taking a big messy code soup and turning it into something that actually works.
Just a minor nitpick: you are probably referring to an oblique style, not italic. Italic style implies a calligraphic handwriting look-alike, and is way more common with serif typefaces. Oblique style is just glyphs tilted to right, and I think that's what you meant here. No offense intended, of course.
California's been getting ready for earthquakes for a long time.
I suggest you go to a grow shop and look at all the seed varieties. There are a lot.
Just asking (not trolling, really), but what are the reasons for using markdown and not emacs org-mode? Is it simply that you don't have to use emacs? I like markdown and all but it seems redundant since org-mode already exists.
@tuhdo Are you using Emacs in terminal? Do you prefer it use the GUI version?
Megabits to a farm: Getting Internet to a hacker camp
It's not just the buildings themselves but the ground they're built on. Many areas in the Bay Area are built on land fill (like areas of SF) or bay bottom soils. When a big earthquake hits, this kind of soil liquifies, amplifying the motions caused by the quake, destroying anything build on top of it if not anchored into bedrock.
I imagine for a large tech company, it would go something like this:

1. Immediately call extra hands in other locations (datacenters, customer service, etc); begin over-time scheduling to alleviate need for workers in disaster zone. Doesn't require any coordination of disaster zone, just remaining executives located outside.

2. Offer two special payments to workers in the impacted zone: 1. Disaster recovery assistance, to help them cushion emergency needs and get their family/belongings/etc recovered faster; 2. Relocation bonus, to create an incentive for quick relocation to temporary (or new) office.

3. Spend as much as you to have to get extra emergency services in to the area, and generally assist in government/regional recovery area. This will free up the last of your staff for temporary relocation.

I doubt that a large company (we're talking Google, Microsoft, Facebook, etc) would take more than a couple days to have other sites working overtime to cover the load, less than a week to have already transported some of their staff to a new site, and less than a month to have brought almost all of the office back online.

This timeline, of course, assumes that the problem wasn't that their office fell on all their employees, killing them or something of that nature.

Likely, we'd see a hiccup in the development cycle, but in terms of keeping infrastructure online, emergency bug fixes, etc, we'd probably see relatively little damage.
I created a similar thing a few years ago: http://kreolmusic.com
I use Ubuntu Mono 14pt in iTerm2 and kinda like using a font that big ! http://imgur.com/7Bdtuge
As I said originally, anyone who questions the prevailing ideology of "social democracy" (if that's what we're calling it) is quickly attacked and shut down these days.

The difference between us is that what I propose has never been properly implemented and tested, while social democracy has, extensively. How you could make claims about the relative productivity of these two systems with the vacuum of test data is beyond me.

Anyway, I've made my claim, and I stand by it. I'm confident that eventually people will see the merits of it, even if it does take some thinking. In the short term it really doesn't matter if people disagree with me. We'll see how things stand in 50 years or so.
Why (and where) would you get a tsunami from this quake?
Even more reason for a distibuted workforce that can work from home.
This right here is where ageism comes from.

"Why would an older person want to work in the game industry" -> "why is this old person applying to my game company" -> "what's wrong with this old person" -> "what's wrong with old people". Ageism comes from bogus adverse selection.

The little derisive zing about "senior citizens" at the end did a nice job of selling it.

Introspect. You are going to be working when you're 50. You're sabotaging yourself.

PS: As a general rule, excellent game developers are among the best low-level systems programmers. But gamers are not; as a rule, people who sit around and play COD all day do not dominate life's leaderboards. Why are good game developers such good programmers? Because game programming is extremely challenging. Good programmers seek out good challenges like bugs, in the case of game programming, to a bug zapper.

So consider that there might be reasons for a 50 year old who feels about COD the same way Phil Fish does to still want to work on one of those titles.
Try rebranding it as a year long Burning Man and see how they flock by the thousands.
Definitely felt it. Thousands of people without power in the North Bay:

http://www.pge.com/myhome/outages/outage/
I used Inconsolata, Monaco, Source Code Pro, Consolas, Pragmata Pro, but in the end settled with Ubuntu Mono. I use it in Vim with the great Solarized color scheme, and it's a pleasure to look at.
> This is essentially an argument against having any population centers in earthquake zones.

Which is an interesting point in and of itself.
My recurring issue with whatever you call the sort of person who gets angry and criticises someone like me, is that they never bother to actually go and read with an open and serious mind the vast literature of economic debate available. The sort of literature that makes you realise that a statement like "libertarians make very grand claims based on untested and frankly very simplistic theory" is total, utter bullshit.

Like I said, you can start with Econ 101, and work your way up from there. I don't know why they don't just give it a try. It's more fun to be open-minded than think you know everything already.

To me it is a shame to see people so stubborn and resistant to thinking differently.
Did I read that not carefully enough, or did the article really not explain what that "vw" unit is/stands for?

And what does the "calc(33vw - 100px)" do, apparently in void context?

Somehow I feel more confused after reading the article.
I didn't know any single USB 2.0 port could serve more than 500mA regardless? Alas charging through the powergrid is way faster than through your laptop.
In any case I think that USBcondom is talking about is power hubs (i.e. custom hardware that could spread malware) and not specifically laptops.