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I read the Alienware 'console' box was supposed to be a Steam machine before SteamOS stopped going anywhere.

Edit: actually there's four Windows-launching former SteamOS machines:

- ZOTAC Zbox EN760

- iBuyPower SBX

- Alienware Alpha PC console

- ASUS GR8

http://www.forbes.com/sites/jasonevangelho/2014/10/16/with-a...
It's strange to me that people think having or not having money is directly tied to obsessing over money. These are two separate things that aren't actually connected--the number in your bank account and the state of your mind.

You can have $1bn and be totally miserable and miserly, you can have .15 and be generous and happy, and vice versa.
Sure would be fucking nice if they (democrats and republicans) could not have to take opposing sides on fucking everything, but you're right. Since he's for it, they're going to rally against it. Really disappointing.
Can't speak for other frameworks, but what I've been trying to do with Mithril.js (a new virtual-dom based framework) is to try to keep things as close to the metal as possible, and as grounded on mature concepts as possible.

I think the underlying appeal of virtual dom is not so much the internal gymnastics that it performs to enable efficient rendering, but that it leverages knowledge rather than code, i.e. we already know how for loops and functional composition work already, and these things are baked into the language, so there's no need for a framework to re-implement them. I talked about this idea in a presentation I gave at TorontoJS ( slides are here http://lhorie.github.io/mithril-presentation-oct-js-tech-nig... )

I think if we want any hope in taming high churn, we need to be able to focus on core principles so that we can find the right axioms, and only produce code if it's an inevitable requirement to achieve that goal.
Do NOT be fooled. An explicit ban on paid prioritization is the only way to preserve the system we have today. If you allow paid prioritization, there will no longer be a "vibrant" tech sector (as we think of it today) in the US. If you only ban paid prioritization, ISPs will continue to hold monopolies, price-fix, offer inferior service, not invest in their infrastructure, and fuck over their customers with fraudulent charges. But, hey, Netflix will stay in business, so all's well, right?!

The goal with this move is to AVOID common carriers and AVOID competition. Paid prioritization is a minor symptom of the problem that ISPs are not common carriers. I say this because without common carriers, if the only ISP has paid prioritization, a there is no competitor to switch to. Banning paid prioritization will do nothing to address the actual problems with American ISPs. Our cable lobbyists and therefore our government will do anything to avoid common carrier legislation being passed.

Common carriers would not be allowed to control the content on their wires at all -- they would be forced to let ISPs purchase bandwidth and compete on the same wire. Granting wire ownership and content control to one company is a natural monopoly: In almost every locale new ISPs cannot use the wires someone else owns, new ISPs cannot dig trenches for new wires, and new ISPs have no common wires to offer service on. Therefore, no new ISPs can form under normal conditions, and competition cannot exist. The only logical conclusion is that we are being denied a free market, on purpose.
I'm a hiring manager and it's a surprisingly rare but strong signal that someone has a record of contributions or portfolio, especially given how low the barrier to entry is. It's practically an automatic interview given the CVs I've seen and hire if you can talk intelligently and engagingly about what you've worked on.
Is there a good service like this but for Movies/TV?

I would love to be able to search for a movie and have it tell me it's available on Prime streaming, so I can go straight there instead of searching HBO Go and Netflix first. Ideally, I am also logged in to all my services and it just starts playing.
it's a given that footage will only be available when it's to the advantage of powers that be.

in other cases it will not be available, and obviously it will be framed to look as if it wasn't sudden. it won't be thought of as suspicious in the slightest.

i can see footage being faked also but that's probably further into the future than it simply being disappeared, it's all covered under tampering with evidence laws but you don't see those get used very often.
There are other ways to initiate plasticity in the brain, aside from chemical. Heavy weight resistant exercise is one of those that are greatly overlooked. There are also nootropic substances on the market that can help with memory formation and increased synaptic activity, which can be grouped into neuroplasticity.

Check out this talk by Max Cynader on "Enhancing the plasticity of the brain"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Chr3rQ6Vpcw#t=417
The GP is giving helpful advice here. It takes stages to get to the people who will have some idea if your side project is really something or a bit of fluff.

Recruiters don't have the experience to know, so it is your job to help them out with your CV. They are looking at many applicants and can't research them in depth and get through the stack at the same time.

I believe this is essentially true for hiring managers as well, although they will probably be able to tell fluff from something interesting, they won't have the time to do it. And it will reflect poorly on you if you aren't willing to work your CV for relevance to the job.

When you get through those gates to a peer interview, you can talk up your side projects all you want, and these are the people who might look at it and incorporate it in their decision making.
This is literally the sickest app idea since Nam. Need this for me and my family!
Ironically, the fact they changed the rules speaks against your claim that Obama could easily instate who he wanted. In fact, from the article you posted, it gives a graph that shows that more filibusters have been filed in the previous three senates than have been in recent history.

This [1] shows a breakdown that includes filibusters of nominations.

To further refute your point, the appointment relevant to the discussion, Wheeler, assumed office after the rule change[2].

[1] http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2013/11/21/us/politics/se...

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Wheeler
can't have multiple resumes for every company there is

But you can target 3-5 companies which you reckon you stand the best chance of getting in.

Research up the wazoo on your selected handful. The best is if you can network into present employees and probe into what's actually going on in there. What technologies do they really use, what's griefing them, and most important of all, why's this req open.

By working backward from why THEY need that extra pair of hands, YOU stand out as the best person for the job.
My problem is sending SMS when you are roaming abroad. iMessage will attempt to send it's thing even though you are offline, then fail few minutes later and it's only then you can tap and hold to send as SMS.
>What tools do you need?

User agent spoofing for every tab. Mobile development is hell without it and nowadays almost every site needs to be developed with mobile devices in mind, which makes FF a bad tool for web development. Just copy Chrome in this regard, they do it right.
> that's shoplifting from the grocery store.

so you don't know how to rip physical CDs from your PS1 for example ? That's not that hard... All my ISOs come from there, and you can pretty much rip rom contents from every console out there, with the right tool and hardware.
It now enters price regions where it starts to compete with Arduinos. Nice.
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Did you read the article?

"No paid prioritization. Simply put: No service should be stuck in a “slow lane” because it does not pay a fee. That kind of gatekeeping would undermine the level playing field essential to the Internet’s growth. So, as I have before, I am asking for an explicit ban on paid prioritization and any other restriction that has a similar effect."

"To do that, I believe the FCC should reclassify consumer broadband service under Title II of the Telecommunications Act — while at the same time forbearing from rate regulation and other provisions less relevant to broadband services. This is a basic acknowledgment of the services ISPs provide to American homes and businesses, and the straightforward obligations necessary to ensure the network works for everyone — not just one or two companies."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communications_Act_of_1934

Title 2 is Common Carrier.

Now whether they actually do anything with a Republican senate/congress in 2015 idk. But they are suggesting what you are asking for.
Obama doesn't care about contradictions. He's just saying whatever he knows will get him support from credulous fools. That's how it always works. Politicians don't care about you. They don't care about the things you do.
Doh. That's http://bugzil.la/989947 :(
I assure you, "waiters under-reporting tips" is a mere rounding error compared to the money hidden in tax shelters; their legality notwithstanding.
It'd be nice to have the URL bar entries as combobox dropdowns

Hand editing by moving the cursor is so fiddly and error prone.

Take:

http://my.app/path/to/node?a=123&b=A34

it would be nice to be able to type into the parameters. Say change path to path1 or value of the b parameter from A34 to B67 .

Having MRU entries for each param value in a dropdown would be quite useful too.
"if there's something I want to learn, I'll find a way to get paid for it" - I'm intrigued, can you give an example?
The Roman republic was preserved so long in part because Roman law and tradition forbade the bearing of arms within the city, and the entry of armed legions from the provinces into Italy proper. The loss of Roman liberty corresponded directly with the progressive breakdown of those regulations, starting with Sulla marching into Rome, Julius Caesar crossing the Rubicon, and continuing with Augustus' Praetorian Guard.

Sometimes liberty is best preserved by limiting the ability of the powerful to bring that power to bear. The alternative is "might makes right", or private tyranny.
Why is my site having a downtime?
There aren't different "kinds" of electricity. Electricity you get anywhere is going to be exactly the same.

The Internet is completely different, and the whole point of peering is acknowledging that fact. Netflix and Comcast peer because Netflix has something Comcast can't get anywhere else.

The Internet isn't very much like a power grid at all, in fact. That's a terrible analogy.
Unless it opens the door to downgrade attacks, then things get a bit more murky: http://crypto.stackexchange.com/questions/10493/why-is-tls-s...
In case it's already light, but looks a bit unclean then you might have set it to Firebug theme which apparently comes with Firebug. For some reason this was the default for me.
Because American exceptionalism is a core element of national identity, and includes the idea that all elements of American government are basically democratic. This believe is convenient for those in power who are not very accountable to the electorate and is a deeply held idea by voters in the United States. When deeply held ideas conflict with reality, beliefs will usually stay and reality is the one that is discarded.
In the case of the story of the fisherman in Mexico, he is not going on big hauls that pay big bucks. He is in a small one man boat in a bay. He is not catching thousands of pounds of fish, he is catching 2-5 fish a day.
The news and other content we all enjoy is underwritten by tracking. The ads lose value without the tracking. The two are inextricably linked.

As someone who works in the industry I understand and respect the desire of privacy advocates to push back against practices they disagree with, but the view advanced by many that the ad industry would work just fine if ads could not be targeted based on behavior seems willfully wrongheaded.

If advertisers can't target based on behavior, they can't get high enough click rates and conversion rates. If they can't get those, their advertising is unprofitable. If their advertising is unprofitable they will stop buying it.
> Under Bush we had increasing levels of surveillance which were undesirable, but the veneer that it was still all about terrorism could at least be believed.

Not if you were paying attention to any of the players involved before 9/11. Or even after for that matter.

That 9/11 was used as a pretext for things the people involved wanted for other reasons and had been seeking for years (in some cases decades) without any connection to terrorism was pretty obvious. These were in some cases the very same people that were openly upset while serving in the Ford Administration against the legislative constraints that were placed in the wake of abuses by Nixon.

It was never believably about terrorism, it was always about restoring overwhelming executive power.
On the other hand, if people had found C very difficult to program in, it probably would have hurt the adoption of unix.

In fact, if I understand the history, developers and sysadmins generally found C an improvement on their previous tools, and generally saw how it was so fairly quickly, without a lot of convincing.

You keep insisting that the... oddities of your language aren't really barriers, aren't as difficult as they seem, really aren't much worse than the conventional way to do things. But I think I've missed it if you've tried to explain why they are supposed to be better, what the justification is for such an unconventional approach, what it's supposed to actually accomplish to be worth it.

(beyond no reserved keywords in the domain of a-zA-Z, only reserved punctuation instead... which I don't think is convincing many people, who haven't really had much of a problem with reserved keywords).

(And the 'reserved keywords' thing doesn't even apply to your "lapidary" thing, which you insist really isn't that hard to deal with once you get used to it, which may or may not be true for people... but what makes it _better_, what's the point? Why not just use meaningful variable names everywhere, instead of taking an extra step to decide if it 'needs' meaningful variable names, or if instead obfuscated 'lapidary' variable names are sufficient? Maybe they're sufficient maybe they aren't, but what's the point, what's the harm in just using meaningful variable names in case they are helpful for a future reader?)
> So how would a 14 year old wanting to play games on Linux see this? Firstly, he'd install a game such as Borderlands and try it out. He hits a wall with dreadful framerate.

That's precisely why the Steam Machines are supposed to exist. To provide hardware which is supported and properly configured by default.

Note that on Windows it's pretty bad as well, performance wise, if you do not install your GPU drivers from a scratch Windows install. Having to do extra steps is nowhere the exception of Linux.
I guess if you have no other experience, then you put what you've got.
Say hi to Windows 8.2 – er, 10
Philae's first science sequence
Please don't neglect to notice that this is not actually an article so much as a list of companies with cloud storage products, and that it doesn't even bother discussing the critical part of the title (that the race to zero is scaring companies).
New Raspberry Pi Gets Even Smaller, Cheaper
animation is bit choppy and jumpy. This goes completely against the animation principal that google's Material UI talks about.
This is basically just agreeing with me and not supporting what he said:

"Sure if you take someone off the street and give this offer to them. But people who rise to the position of being able to consider [be CEO who does unscrupulous things] have other options that are almost as good. "

That is just confirming what I said.
If electricity, gas and water were not regulated, we would be outraged about that too.
I doubt that there are no existing libraries in Python that allow to work with discrete probability distributions.
Not that it stops anyone from implementing their own.
This can be difficult as some updates can break applications. PHP is problematic that way for our customers on servers that we manage for them. Its not as bad as it used to be (e.g. register_globals), but updates can break customer apps. So if you automatically apply them and their web server breaks, who does the clean up ? The web developer who got paid to create the site but not maintain it ? The VPS provider who gets paid to just host the image ? The customer from their POV (and these are not technical people) will often say, "but I didnt do anything to break it. You broke it! You fix it!" Also, as there are (typically) no regression testing, breakage can be silent and undetected for some time.
There's two native browsers for Plan 9 and 9front: Mothra and Abaco. They're not modern, obviously.

I think Links is able to work on it, too.

That said, I think it was possible to run old versions of Firefox in Linuxemu.
I have to say I rather like it that way but I guess I am not the target user group for such accessibility features.
It's the submitter's responsibility not to submit a link about a defunct project, something they can quickly determine.

It's readers' responsibility not to blindly upvote items like this because of the title.
I assume Apple couldn't get the lawsuits dropped, so they were forced into making concessions to their customers. Prediction: this tool will be ungoogleable, and discoverable only from a visit to an Apple store, or the last step of a support call.

There is no technical reason for iMessage to behave as it does, only business reasons. I can come up with a more intuitive UI for this tool right now - make disabling iMessage send "curl -X POST [whatever] http://apple.com/technicallyyoucanturnitoff.now ". Done.

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edit:

Is 45 days still in effect?

"If you want to transfer your SIM card or phone number to a device that doesn't support iMessage

"Go to Settings > Messages and turn off iMessage if you plan to transfer your SIM card or phone number from an iPhone to a device that doesn't support iMessage. If you don't, other iOS devices might continue to try to send you messages using iMessage, instead of using SMS or MMS, for up to 45 days."

http://support.apple.com/en-us/TS2755

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edit2:

This change was directly a result of the lawsuit, which went into mediation 2 weeks ago in preparation for a settlement.

Lawsuit: http://www.slideshare.net/harrisonrweber/apple-imessage-laws...

News of settlement: http://www.law360.com/articles/590726

better: http://topclassactions.com/lawsuit-settlements/lawsuit-news/...

Apple could have done this at any time, but chose not to.

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last edit:

from the lawsuit filing -

"49. Apple's business practice of distributing, marketing, and its iMessage and Messages service and application in the manner described herein is also an unfair business practice because it, inter alia, threatens to harm competition in its incipiency. Class members and others who become aware that switching their Apple iPhone or other wireless devices in favor of non-Apple products will result in these persons not being able to receive text messages sent to them by other Apple users are likely to be disincentivized from switching from Apple to an Apple competitor. [...]"
A more recent example, I played recently Wolf Among Us straight from the Telltales install files from their official website and it ran flawlessly on WINE too. I was quite impressed.
very true, google is doing a lot of work in that space. However, the additional advantage we have is that we manage group bookings for businesses which means no repeated filling of forms by the support staffs. The current model often involves a lot of back and forth between travellers and the travel agencies or company travel department. Our service will significantly reduce this since the preferences of each traveller is known.

thanks for the feedback
Family first... unless if your family is that wealthy, materialistic, dysfunctional, and soulless like mine (and yes, they were unhappy, for those curious, not that anyone would change anyone's stance towards money anyways).

After growing up in that environment, I knew money wasn't the answer. Instead, I placed my happiness in learning, helping others, and doing what I believed in. Couldn't be happier now!
Mozilla promoting privacy seems nonsensical; the browser-based SaaS server-fetched application execution model is fundamentally antithetical to ownership and privacy.
For those of us that have been living under a rock: what did Valve get from MS and exactly why did Steam OS become 'dead'?
This is almost certainly caused by an extension. If you use Firefox with few or no extensions (e.g. 1Password doesn't cause problems) you'll find this doesn't happen.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adrian_Carton_de_Wiart

>He served in the Boer War, First World War, and Second World War; was shot in the face, head, stomach, ankle, leg, hip, and ear; survived two plane crashes; tunnelled out of a POW camp; and bit off his own fingers when a doctor refused to amputate them. Describing his experiences in World War I, he wrote, "Frankly I had enjoyed the war."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simo_H%C3%A4yh%C3%A4 | http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1517044/The-long-view...

>Using nothing more than an iron-sighted, bolt action standard rifle, Simo killed 505 Russians during a three-month period
Default means "the default when you install Ubuntu", not the unconfigured state of that process. For kernel and in-use things it would still require a restart, however maybe at some point DO forced a restart, even if unrelated.
i completely disagree - he has a small but successful real estate business and has presumably close to or over $1M in assets. he definitely can afford a tax ride, an extra appetizer, or a flight somewhere without thinking about the implications of the cost. if not this guy, then who? do you have to be a billionaire before you can order an appetizer without guilt?

i'll describe the lifestyle you probably can't afford - $20k vacations, $500 dinners, $100k cars, and $1M houses. not appetizers and taxi rides. appetizers and taxi rides are normal things that normal people buy. even normal people who don't have a successful exit under their belt and don't have a successful new business as an investor.

this irrational overemphasis on frugality i always see on hn just seems like a different form of elitism / pedantry to me. since most of us have money, it's just a covert way of signaling an extra level of self-control and discipline (which are usually required to make money, but since so many of us make money, we've got to find novel ways to signal that extra status).
Microsoft to provide free Internet in India
>. He discovers the Ubuntu automatic installer. Excellent! Just a few clicks and... "non-free?" Does this mean I have to pay for it? Will I need my parents' credit card? Why is there a warning sign? Am I doing something wrong? Could this damage my hardware?

This is how we learn. It's how I learned anyway. A bit of friction is good, IMHO.

Obviously if you just want to install and play, it's less than ideal.
> before SteamOS stopped going anywhere.

who said it's not going anywhere? They released a new beta update a couple of days ago.