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With all these impressive advancement in browser technology, it looks like supporting non-qwerty keyboards in games is still a struggle. Or maybe developers aren't aware of the problem since no matter how big the game is, something as basic as keyboard controls is sometime completely wrong (at least on azerty keyboards). I don't know much about videogame development, but is it really difficult to somehow detect the user keyboard?
You're very out of touch with the life of a minimum wage worker. I'm not sure what I can do to fix that, but maybe just step back and think about who you're defending and why.
> Premium Matchmakers do occasionally use their real profiles if they find someone that is exceptionally good for one of their clients

This is bait and switch and also poaching, same as if a realtor goes to another realtor's web site to find prospects and start soliciting them, plus using false pretenses in your case.
The "fixed cost" of the branch network is an illusion created by the high fees.

Regulation and a less friendly lending environment showed us who's swimming naked with over-extended branch networks: everyone
As someone who has been in SF, Chicago, Atlanta and now lives in Mobile, Ala., I can tell you that you aren't going to find tech culture outside of a major city. My suggestion would be to plan on moving to a near major city—New Orleans, Austin or Atlanta would probably be your closest good bet.

I actually started a podcast, Signal Tower, to keep in touch with people in the community. It is wearing on me though. I'm clearly out of place in this town.
Do you know how much overhead it introduce? I'm curious.
Fitness threads are always a nightmare on HN.
Problem, in the case of the gall bladder, is that some organs basically don't heal. I put up up with the pain (an agonizing few hours, but afterwards felt just fine), which after repeated instances eventually led to an infection and the observation that even if that were resolved the damage had been done with no reversal expected. While I was quite attached to may gall bladder, surgery happened and I've not missed it.

Sometimes doctors do something precisely because they know the "milder approaches", know they don't really work, and want to get to a reliable & acceptable solution before other damage occurs requiring more severe treatment.

The "cleansing" approach, which (without further description from you) I presume amounts to "consume lots of fats and lie down until your body pushes the stone out" may work, and may also result in severe damage requiring more urgent & worse treatment than simple removal of an organ that's nice to have but far from necessary for survival. Remember, some organs don't really heal, and some treatments have pretty severe risks.

(BTW: I say all that having been in the 2% of GB removals that don't go well. On blood thinners, the incisions didn't close properly inside for some time. They didn't let me eat for two weeks.)

Surgery may be the last resort, but sometimes you should accept the expert view that other methods will, most likely, get you to that point - and with more damage to contend with. Remember: Steve Jobs famously followed your "surgery is my last resort" notion - with bad results.
The language describing the guillotine was also scientific and technical. Likewise it was the politics of its employment that had to cope with violent currents in human emotion.
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Link to an example video? Anything more "advanced" than 720p@30FPS seems to require DASH support or the like?
Paul, Conspire co-founder and CTO, here. Thanks a lot for the feedback.

I understand granting "manage my email" access is a big step. Unfortunately, Gmail/Google Apps IMAP access is currently all-or-nothing. All we need to understand the network is read-only access to message headers--not including subject line--but we're forced to ask for everything.

The new Gmail API, https://developers.google.com/gmail/api/, adds a read-only (but not a read-only-headers) permission. We're looking forward to making the switch, but right now the performance difference between the Gmail API and plain IMAP is prohibitive. More on that here: http://blog.conspire.com/post/100016691078/why-we-arent-usin....
Note: 2003.
As VLM notes elswhere in this thread, being poor also means you're usually "judgment proof" (i.e. too poor to be worth suing).
"if it was true it would never be possible to create a new concept, which people in Plato's time almost never did, but we do all the time."

I think a Platonist would say that the concepts already exist, we just discover them. It's not a belief I hold, and it's been long enough since I read about it in any depth that I'm not going to do a terrific job defending it, but I don't think the above effectively refutes Platonism.
Yeah, I really need to switch over to tiny type in light grey on dark grey, with the examples in yellow on dark grey. And stop listing all the possible values for enumeration value results; let users figure that out for themselves.
> its like clojure core.async only more powerful.

Can you explain why its more powerful than core.async?
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Two models that make sense:

- California, non-competes are not enforceable

- Poland, you can make non-compete for the time you pay full salary (e.g. if company wants you to restrict employment for 3 months after leaving it, you will get your salary during that period)
You don't need to move very far to find a good startup. If it's a major city, there's probably going to be some sort of tech scene with at least a few startup culture companies. Regardless of whether or not it's a on a coast.
Lots of charities make a lot of money and are run like any other companies. As far as the IRS is concerned, Mozilla Foundation is a charity since it is a 501c3.
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Prime candidate is any highly scalable TCP socket server. Currently, there's no better language for it
Ok we changed it to 2004.
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This. It's why I just can't get excited about NASA's manned spaceflight plans anymore. In 2004 there was a vision set out to go places, but Congress didn't really fund it, and then the new administration took the lackluster progress (due in no small part to lackluster funding, mind you) along with "not invented here" and gave it the kibosh.

So long as manned exploration is subject to the whims of whatever Congresscritter happens to come into power, as well as their feelings toward their counterparts, their predecessors, the Executive branch, etc ... well, I don't expect consistent achievements.

Ugh. Too many politicians simply view NASA as another way of getting pork, boondoggles, etc and "delivering money" back to their own district.

Instead, I'm hopeful for imaginative uber-rich people (Musk, Allen, Bezos, Bigelow, etc). Not all of their ideas will work, and that's fine ... so long as there's a critical mass of them at least trying something.

NASA used to be a reason I didn't mind paying high taxes. Now, I feel different.
where top secret reason == too much melanin

I have a friend named Omar -- american citizen, raised in america, mit undergrad -- who is on a watch list because of his name. That's not a common name or anything...
The company might not recover costs by suing, but that won't necessarily stop them from doing it to make an example of someone.
There are some Tech Startups in the bible belt. There's stuff going on in Atlanta and Austin. And my startup, EdgeTheory, is located in Jackson, Mississippi. Yes, it is harder to find like minded people in the South, but they're out there.

As other commenters mentioned, I suggest finding meetups in your area or driving to a larger city and attending one if there are none where you live.
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Sounds like they're making some great progress on the new web exporter! I'm using Unity for a project now, and while a web version of the game requiring a special plugin doesn't seem particularly compelling, one that could run directly in the browser definitely seems like a worthwhile build target. I'm really looking forward to the final release of Unity 5.
>> Pay more than the average of $4.56 to unlock!

I find that to be an interesting idea, since the average will only increase over time.
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Jimmy John's competes with every local restaurant in every local market where it operates. Someone can easily start a local business that cuts into the market share of one of its local stores, although yes, it's very unlikely that restaurant is going to overtake Jimmy John's nationally. And yes, many local businesses, especially restaurant businesses, are started by former employees who enter a field to get training, but one day want to open their own business. It's obvious many of the comments (and my downvotes) here are from individuals who have never ran, nor worked in, a business that operates and competes on a local scale.
Unity just launched a benchmark that can help answer that,

http://blogs.unity3d.com/2014/10/07/benchmarking-unity-perfo...

It does run somewhat slower in a browser compared to native, but the difference is really not very big.

To put it another way, the differences between browsers are about the same size as the difference between the fastest browser and native. So it's in the right ballpark.
Do you have any evidence that your behavior is typical of the population?
My understanding of the CA model was that they are unenforceable except for when an employee has a controlling interest in the company. For example you could enforce a non-compete on a co-owner who tried to create a competing service. At least that's the way I interpreted it.
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We're providing the equivalent functionality of payments, in-app purchases and updates to developers. As well as allowing them to use/ develop trial functionality, allowing them to distribute outside the MAS more effectively.

In most cases (from talking to developers) the distribution/ audience aspect isn't the #1 reason developers go down the MAS route. Lots of developers have their own audiences, or use sites like MacUpdate (or traditional marketing methods).

That said, we are working on functionality to help users discover applications. We currently have around 400k users (customers on the buy side) who have active accounts with us, and we're testing ways of recommending content to those users, in order to provide developers with that extra exposure/ sales volume on our platform. — Currently we're testing this via email receipts (for opted-in merchants) and via our web-based "locker" (where users who have purchased content can access their downloads/ license codes).

We've got a lot of work to do on the discovery side of things, and there are a lot of interesting things that we can do at scale, but discovery isn't our primary focus at the moment (building a great platform/ SDK for developers, and providing the foundation is our current focus).
Airbnb was spamming, but they weren't being dishonest. To me, dishonesty is worse.
It's reasonable to believe that "the building where you can ascend the furthest" is taller than "the building which would first puncture a descending dirigible".

The formal definition of "Height to Architectural Top" from the CTBUH requires 5 footnotes and a committee to decide whether the top features of a building are "architectural" or not.

And who put them in charge, anyway?
Youtube has 60fps videos?
Now i'm curious if anyone has actually challenged this in court on the grounds that it's unconstitutional.
How I think it should be: the IDE would actually do the syntax checking and reference resolving work, so any program you have written is in fact pre-validated.

But IDEs already do that. An example I'm familiar with is Java on Eclipse - it validates the code as you're writing it and marking compilation errors. Your others example have been done as well.

You're right that you need an AST to do the properly, but when there's a cheap and reliable way to convert a blob of text to an AST - parsing - the distinction is somewhat irrelevant.
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Add Ann Arbor, MI to that list. We (FarmLogs) relocated here after YC W12. It's often off the radar, but there's several Series A or later companies here[1]. University of Michigan consistently puts out great talent, and MHacks in particular is one of the nation's largest hackathons.

[1]: http://www.madeina2.com/
People like Go because you have a single executable to drop on a box, no worrying about what version of what libraries are installed. Though, the Go team realizes there is a need for dynamic linked libraries, so they at least have a proposal for it[0].

[0] https://docs.google.com/document/d/1nr-TQHw_er6GOQRsF6T43GGh...
Well, it's all relative here. The welfare state has been getting slimmer over the past 20 years. But to understand what has changed, one needs to look at the details. It is mainly the work loss insurances that pays out over a shorter period out time.

Defense spending is also continously down in all the mentioned countries. But investments in health care and education has paid off well during the same time period, and there is no democratic mandate to lessen it.

Compared to the US it would still look like a socialist model. The southern countries (not states) have spent a lot of money, but not necessarily on classic social insurance systems, so I don't really think it compares. Their main problem is that their underlying economy was much too weak for what they've been spending.
Cobol programmers were excited about Cobol2014 updates.

C++ will continue to be used, much like Cobol has continued to be used for an eternity.
Ask HN: Conference phone/hardware recommendation?
Does anyone have a recommendation for hardware for conference calls? Most of our team is in one location with the occasional remote member or client calling in. We love hipchat, uberconference, hangouts etc. but sometimes we just want that person who's WFH that day to be able to hear what everyone else around the table in the office is saying. We currently use a polycom soundstation2 which means only the two people directly next to the phone are audible to the other side. Any ideas?
If Jimmy John's can't compete with a fly-by-night catering business started by a former worker, then why shouldn't Jimmy John's fail?
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I think you're arguing semantics here (or trolling). The point is that users shouldn't be sending messages as a proxy.
I am working on a project to make lookup of pins for hardware easier. Datasheets for most electronic components are a pain today.
I don't believe you can actually identify what the keyboard layout is in a browser. But I agree, key bindings should be configurable. Im an old ESDF quake player.
I'm not at a high enough level that I think an employer would actually try to enforce a non-compete but the fact that I signed something that says they could still scares me.
True, if the tool has been built with dynamic linking. Statically linking your security tools makes it a lot harder to hide your naughtyware. Depending on how deep the rabbit hole led in your infection, there are of course other things that could be done, like a malicious kernel module overriding the getdirentries(2) syscall, which would mean even more fun manually parsing the directory entries.

Then again, the best course of action is to pull that server down and build a new clean box, and do all the analysis offline. Boot from some sort of read-only media to minimize the threat, and analyze from a known good kernel, making sure to not run anything from the infected box unless you're goddamn sure what you're doing.
Not at all. You're discounting the fact that $50 is a month's wages to some people in some countries or that a loaf of bread cost a wheelbarrow's full of trillion dollar bills in Zimbabwe. A person might buy a watch like that because the amount is disposable, and they like the craftsmanship. It's you're assumption they're trying to impress people because you've formed a value system through your experiences in life, and you can't see it through any other lens that your own.

Someone who can buy a $2.75 M dollar watch likely looks at life very different than you do whether they go and buy a watch like that or not. Don't assume people who get what they want are naive, greedy, vain etc. They might have different reasons that on a relative basis are just as good as any you'd have.
I don't have much experience with the 330, but I assume it had some sort of stall-recovery mechanism, like a stick pusher. Why did it not override the pilots' inputs and force a pitch-down?

Also, the 330 is not equipped with pitot heaters? The military aircraft (simulators) that I've messed with will start to complain if you don't have the pitot heaters on, well before you ever leave the ground.
Assuming the self-reporting is truthful. How many people are selecting the "this sucks I give up" box?

Self-reporting in general is fraught with problems, doubly (quadruply) so when it's something as close to the ego as dating.

Also assuming the account is shut off at all as opposed to simply idled.
> there are other cases where low-paid or entry-level workers have had an employer try to restrict their employability elsewhere. The Times article tells of a camp counselor and a hair stylist who faced such restrictions.

Being poor does not seem to have helped those people.
Seconding Atlanta. I moved here from San Francisco in the spring, because living in SF just didn't seem sustainable and at my (not old!) age I was starting to feel old. There are lots of startups here although I took a job at a large company.

(Don't move here if you don't like traffic, though.)
Here's all I really need to know about the company:

http://www.smilepolitely.com/splog/jimmy_john_is_a_big_man._...

I used to eat there pretty regularly until I saw those photos. I haven't ate there since.
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Yes, pointers are completely supported. You can create a var buf bytes.Buffer and Write() to it and all that stuff without problems.
Who said anything about nihilism?
More than anecdotal: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24321208

Another anecdote: of the people close to me, one has had gallstones and gallbladder removal; they are also the one who'd done the most low-fat dieting over the years.
That thing they did where they shipped hot single ladies from NYC to meet rich single techies in SF[1] left a bad taste in my mouth. I know lots of people thought it was a great idea and lots of other people didn't. So, we'll just have to agree to disagree about it.

And then there is this allegation of spamming OkCupid users[2] (which didn't really get denied). This also leave another bad taste in my mouth.

Add to that the general tone of the founder's comments in this thread.

Each of those things are some what subjective. But, I would have a hard time recommending this site to any of my single friends. In fact, if any of them told me they were looking in to Dating Ring, I would actively try to convince them not to.

[1] http://techcrunch.com/2014/03/04/the-dating-ring-is-raising-...
[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8455138
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But you can help it. What is your payoff matrix? How much effort do you think it's worth to prepare for every possible eventuality?

You'll notice that while flight crew give instructions on how to use various safety equipment, they don't actually run through drills where the masks comes down and they check to make sure they are put on correctly; they don't run through drills where the passengers actually leave the aircraft; they don't do all that while dumping simulated smoke in the cabins.

You'll notice that while there are tests of the evacuation alarms around, say, a nuclear power plant, they don't actually run mass tests to see if everyone can evacuate in time. New York City is in the 50-mile evacuation zone for Indian Point Energy Center. And those "plans" are more like "fantasy".

What you can do is read about disaster planning for those different scenario (hurricane, tsunami, nuclear reactor meltdown, bomb shelters, plastic sheeting & duct tape against biological attacks, fire drills, airplane evacuations, etc.), see what the plans are, and figure out why people came to the conclusions that they did. There's no reason to make wild guesses about what you think it should be when there's plenty of material for you to ground your thinking.

Regarding specifically nuclear bomb shelters, read Freeman Dyson's essay at http://scilib.narod.ru/Physics/Dyson/Weapons_and_Hope/Weapon... . For the US, a nuclear shelter program could destabilize the arms race, since we would be planning to defend ourselves against Soviet attacks, giving the Soviets cause to think that we would attack them knowing that we would be more likely to survive. The Swiss bomb shelters don't destablize international politics in anything like the same way.
> The Go mantra is "share by communicating, not by
> sharing". Then look at all the thread examples in
> "Effective Go". They all share memory,

That mantra is spoken in the context of concurrent code, not as a general axiom of the language. And I think it's remarkably well sustained in all of the concurrency examples I've seen so far. Can you be a bit more specific?

> The lack of exceptions is resulting in hacks using the
> "panic" mechanism to create an exception

> The lack of generics is resulting in hacks using the
> reflection mechanism to create generics.

At the risk of making a No True Scotsman fallacy, idiomatic Go code does neither of these things.
Maybe the source code is really ugly, and they all silently threw in the towel.
> I think there's definitely something uncanny about being able to look a dead person in the eyes.

Not really. It's also not like looking at a photograph.
Maybe I'm a clueless jackass, but I've made sandwiches before, and I've seen sandwiches made in sandwich shops before, and I can't imagine this "training" taking longer than a shift. The training that isn't directly related to sandwiches, e.g. how to stock the cooler and where the dumpster is located, is likely to vary from shop to shop. Most hiring shop managers are going to look more closely at how long one has held jobs than whether those jobs were with a competing sandwich chain.
Yes, I'm sure there are just TONS of barely-higher-paid-than-minimum-wage workers out there with an extra $5,000 just sitting around.

Idiot.
I didn't up or downvote you but from my perspective I don't feel that employers deserve more protections. If I want to run off with the secret recipe it's already protected by IP laws. I think it should be illegal for an employer to limit your future employment in any way. I'm not saying the restaurant industry isn't competitive, it's probably one of the most competitive I can think of, but limiting employees rights is not the right way to handle that.