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I wonder if that counts as biological warfare?

I mean, theoretically you could really hurt an entire industry. A large Fruit Fly outbreak in certain countries could have really affect gdp
I think you shouldn't.

That advice stems from the fact that most humans can remember ~7 items in short term memory. It got then mixed up with menu items. The argumentation is that only this way user can remember immediately after seeing the menu what was in it.

But that ignores that user can open the menu again, they don't have to use the short term memory, and long term memory is not limited that way.

Probably still sometimes a good idea to use that advice just to evade letting the menus get too cramped, but other than that, it is better to ignore this advice.
That brings back memories, I even had the cub monitor with mine.
This method of escrow comes up fairly regularly in the bitcoin world. Each person ignoring the reasons the previous version stopped being promoted.

Say I am a malicious seller and I am offering a brand new XBox for 1BTC. You the purchaser start the order put up your two BTC, I put up my 1BTC and send you a used XBox only worth 0.75BTC. Now you as the buyer have two choices. You can either a) Refuse to confirm in which case you'll be out 1.25BTC or b) you can accept your loss confirm the order and be out 0.25BTC. Very few people will chose option (a) to the point that it would almost certainly be profitable for the malicious seller.

The fall back is reputation systems which require centralization to avoid gaming/having enough data points to be useful.
Yeah, I totally agree with you on that front. The GPL (especially version 3) really stifles the ability for others to use your code. I license everything BSD so that what I do can help others.
Plus the GPL is HUGE and I can't be bothered to read it all. I know, though, that I don't agree with the viral licensing shit that it does and have read those parts.
Technology is key to the language barrier. Guess what in next 10 years there may not be any such problem.
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This is the situation that no one who releases a system based on this method(I can think of a few over the past year) thinks of. They assume the buyer will always act on social instead of financial best interest in the event of a scam.
I suspect price is still the driver (pun intended) here. Flash LIDAR is, for the most part, shockingly expensive. Some companies like Toyota are looking into bringing the cost down with CMOS SPAD arrays, but it's still very much lab work. Similarly the Velodyne system ain't cheap and was close to $80k not too long ago. Stereo is pretty much free, but still needs more work to make it robust enough. Even smaller line scan LIDAR units (e.g. the SICK LMS models) are around $5k each.
It's even worse for me, the site is blocked by Sophos.
It tells me it contains Mal/HTMLGen-A
I have read such a statement before. I think in one of the articles by Mashable.

Yes I am right - here is the link for you - http://mashable.com/2012/08/16/language-barrier-technology/
+1 My eyes are also configured in this way.
If I may, http://xkcd.com/1437/
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Similar to SipSnapp [1]. The UI looks much better, though.

[1] http://www.sipsnapp.com/
That was sort of my point.
It took me a while before I realised you could do that. Before that I would type the whole thing out again. When I realised you could copy parts of the line my mind was blown! Ah.. those were good days..
yeah wtf is going on here: a company is bulk uploading all customer e-mail addresses to facebook?
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I guess they didn't want people going to the site, so they left the name out.

Thanks for mentioning it though, I didn't know what the site was.
With industrial production means, I meant machines. The machines were sold, and the companies/factories shut down. Not much to produce without machines :)
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My Italian friends think it's a bit odd that you can't buy one of those in the US, because they're dangerous for children, but you can let 9 year olds loose with fully automatic weapons, and of course buy all kinds of guns. I can't do much more than shrug: every place has its contradictions.

Additionally: I personally hate the damn things. My kids love to get them because of the stupid surprise. Sometimes my daughter just ignores the chocolate completely. It's a bit of marketing akin to the McDonalds Happy Meal with the cheap plastic toy. A far greater injustice in the world is not being able to import prosciuttos and similar cured meats.
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This will be much harder with other species since so little is known about the neural system of other species when compared to C elegans. It is very easy to study the wrom since it is clear and you can track the development of its neurons from an early stage. It is also easy to run mutagenesis experiments on them as well.
Can you elaborate on this? Can you give some examples?
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No, didn't know about the books. I found it on YouTube once and watched it there. Somehow it got stuck in my memory so I was reminded of its title.
It's always 80/20.
The Moon is in sync with the Earth. By the mechanism of Tidal locking.

So, there might be some possibilities.
> The idea of a "social relationship" with a brand was always pretty silly, I think.

You are not a marketer, are you?
> they were created for the sole purpose not to let Microsoft has a monopoly on the gateway to the Internet...

Created by Google. People often forget (or don't know) that Microsoft's IE once almost had a browser monopoly. Many online applications accepted only IE as browser. Surprisingly, Microsoft did not fight hard to keep the monopoly and even dissolved their team of IE developers. Google and 'their' Firefox took the opportunity. I never understood why Google created their own browser instead of tightening their already strong relationship to Mozilla.

Contrary to most opinions here, I think that Mozilla's decision is more likely the beginning of the end than a promising "strategic partnership".
You can do the same with nothing more than iptables on Linux (using "recent").
I am reminded of The Onion's take on such bans:

http://www.theonion.com/articles/fun-toy-banned-because-of-t...
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Fascinating that we've come this far, also: http://xkcd.com/1425/
>No idea. Some of the basic choices seem odd and irrelevant for the main goals. Such as dropping support for some systems and not being backwards compatible. The goals could just as well been implemented without that.

How are those steps "odd and irrelevant"?

Dropping support for BS OS makes the code leaner and cleaner, and easier to update.
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To you and the others: yes you can. You can also upload phone #s. They are hashed.
Funnily enough I just saw a movie that had a square format for 99% of the duration.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3612616/
I think their must be a voting ring of marketers that are upset their latest buzzword-bingo entry has been called out :-)
Yeah. While I'm happy to read about these kinds of things, they're far from my own interests (for now). I much prefer the 'bootstrapping' approach for all kinds of reasons, so obviously I also prefer reading about other people's experiences and observations taking the same, more conventional approach.

That said, I understand that the demographics of a site can change, and that's not always a bad thing. And there's still enough variety to keep me here.

Would you (or anyone else reading this) know of online communities similar to HN that are more bootstrappy in their focus?
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The creators of the atomic bomb regretted having created it. I wonder how long before someone in a spying/miltary agency will regret making a big discovery. Maybe something like an exploit in electricity itself or a way to remotely explote any nuclear plant in the world.
Don't think Facebook offers relationships at all - just an endless stream of adverts and selfies. Like watching TV with all the programmes removed.

Anyway, it's all going to be totally different with smartwatches...
That's only true if you have only one monitor.

The last few places I've been have been strong supporters of dual monitors, so I might be in a bit of a thought bubble on that, but also because monitors have gotten dirt cheap so why not. You can get dual IPS for the price of a fancy office chair.
Interested to hear the Hacker community's take on this.

We've been forecasting this for 2 years and agree with Nate Elliott : "As a result, marketers hoping to interact with consumers online might be better off investing in social features that exist on their own websites, or in smaller, more niche social networks, Mr. Elliott said."

That's why we built Hull in the first place.

Now this subject is this 15min's subject. What does the Hacker community think of this specific idea?
Pitch-perfect satire. The slow build to heavy-handed propaganda is especially great.
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>He said that Neovim's goals could be achieved without cutting out features and removing supports for exotic OSes.

That's the same as what parent said.

Neovim's #1 goal (from the webpage) is: "Neovim is a project that seeks to aggressively refactor Vim in order to simplify maintenance and encourage contributions". And other goals including adding new features for the future.

You might not 100% HAVE to drop "supports for exotic OSes" for that, but is extremely logical, and very much helpful in that direction.

Anything that reduces code size makes it easier for maintanance. You don't want to have to check how things play for those IFDEFS for Amiga OS when you write code for 2014.
Check out yacy, a distributed search engine :)
You don't have to be familiar with Vim's code to know that having support for obsolete OSes makes the code substantially more complicated.
The ultimate irony is probably a comment about the ambiguity of "this" in an article about a Javascript-based technology.
Does it track click throughs so you don't get the same links every day?
I'd love something like this for instapaper!
Man, this is gold. Kudos.
>In 8 months, here's what NeoVim has done:
1) Reformatted all the code.

Even if they had done JUST that and the deprecation of old code, it would be MORE than enough.
The man laid out a detailed plan to investigate and anonymously report facts about reporters while talking to reporters.

ftfy

If we want to make hyperbolic analogies, the closest one might be a mob boss suggesting hiring hit men to kill other hit men while talking to a hit man.
Impressive! Great work.
I think the term you're both looking for is 'dysphemism'. (Edit: typographical error).
You’re not downvoted because you suggested the existence of aliens in general. Sure, we all hope that there is intelligent life somewhere else in the Universe or even in our own galaxy. But that doesn’t mean that every cosmological mystery we find we’ll attribute it to some advanced civilization.

Besides, even if this was the works of some super duper advanced civilization what difference does it make? Our quest is to explore and learn new things, whether they were made by nature, God, or any freaking alien out there is irrelevant.
> They are hashed

So what if they are hashed? Facebook has the solution to all the hashes.
Let me provide another viewpoint: many people don't understand the GPL, and any criticism of it elicits a knee-jerk reaction.

I've been in discussions about problems with the GPL in several companies already. The real problem is not (as most people tend to think) the requirement to provide source code and the rights to modify and redistribute it. The problem is the patent claim landmine that is considered to be dangerous by many lawyers (see GPLv2 Section 7, LGPLv2 Section 11). I don't want to go into excessive detail here, but in brief: the danger is that you might have to immediately stop redistributing the software if you become aware of a patent that would restrict the rights provided by the GPL.

A library project which is under GPLv2 or GPLv3 gets immediately rejected in many (most?) commercial settings. Note that I'm not judging here — just stating a fact. We ourselves reject a lot of interesting options because of licenses and I know most other companies do so as well.

Now, LightTable is not a library project, but I can imagine how companies would like to bundle it, or bundle a modified version of it. The moment you "redistribute" it, the GPL applies, and if you build a business on this software, that business might have to suddenly fold some day because of patents.

Please don't respond along the lines of "you might get a patent lawsuit anyway". Yes, you might, but then it's a lawsuit, which you can defend against.

Please understand that the license change is a really big deal for some people.
I know how you feel. A failed company is rarely the same as wasted time, though. You learned a lot about what you need in a partnership.

And definitely don't beat yourself up for misjudging someone.

If you trusted no one, you'd have a miserable, unproductive life. If you trusted everyone, you'd waste all your time and money going nowhere.

It's really hard to strike a balance where you trust the right people. No one gets it right 100% of the time.
Anyone interested in search engine alternatives should look into yacy! Its distributed and runs locally. You can share your node with others of you really want to help :)
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I'm not sure they do have a reputation for providing a bad service.

BT Infinity blows the competition out of the water, has no bandwidth limits at the £26/mo option and is very reliable.
Someone's probably managed to choke to death on every popular type of treat.

http://www.health-benefits-of-dark-chocolate.com/death-by-ch...

"In 1910 a young woman dies while trying to share her chocolate with her co-workers. She attempted to cut the bar in pieces and instead slipped and cut an artery in her leg."
"So, if the quasars are in a long filament then the spins of the central black holes will point along the filament."

the filament formation means the matter moving inward toward the virtual "centerline" (the term is used here pretty loosely obviously) of the filament. As this movement isn't perfectly aligned/balanced there is a total nonzero angular moment of the matter kind of orbiting around the "centerline" - the vector of the moment pointing along the "centerline". The bigger the object inside the filament, the more [statistically] expected its angular moment to be aligned with the total angular moment of the filament.
No, just please no. Any moderately competent programmer can be productive in either Java or Javascript (+ Node.js). Javascript may help incompetent programmers feel productive because Javascript has fewer compile-time constraints but in the long run the cost of maintaining code written by an incompetent more than counteracts any perceived benefit that Javascript offers.
Very good question - I usually develop custom, internal apps that are very data- and option-heavy. A lot of those best practices you read about everywhere are hard to apply when your software is much denser than modern "do-one-thing-well"-apps.

I'd like to see some showcases on how to approach those problems.

One thing I found to work well, is resisting the urge collect all kinds of features in a single screen/page/view - use multiple views instead and keep them clean and simple on their own. Of course this comes at the expense of needing more clicks to reach certain areas, but I prefer that to overwhleming users by putting everything related into one section.

Also, I can't emphasize enough how much consistency matters - particularly if you have a lot views, you should make sure that your users feel right at home in any of them as from their first encounter. Keep similar navigation ideas for example: If all your navigation features a hierarchy like Home -> All Items/List -> Single Item/Detail only the context will change and it will be easy to get used to that.
> Except this is not true and I don't know where people are getting this idea.

It's a bit of casual hyperbole that can feel kind of bad to read if someone is not part of the crowd that can get money.

That said, there is a lot of seed funding out there these days.
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There is an official http status code, but obviously no one uses it yet.
"The now-retired NSA official...says he argued to then-NSA Director Keith Alexander"

"The former official, who spoke only on condition of anonymity because he didn't have permission to discuss a classified matter"

and then

"An individual did bring us these questions, and he had some great points," Alexander told the AP."

So they know who it is. Isnt he going to get in trouble regardless?
What about Android? The layout managers there attempt to get good placing of items, dealing with these issues.

Agreed it's a hard problem and that comment was certainly reductionist, but at the same time it's depressing to have this be the issue that makes fonts blurry - the hardware is fine but the software side is letting it down.
In the same way that wives and children 'ruin' mens careers.

It's called compromise.

If you want to satisfy your own plans ahead of everything else, don't bring other people into your life.
Well, five years probably already passed since the comic release, so it isn't surprising.
I sometimes use this - that was built as a call-center simulation - to get quick-and-dirty figures to have an idea of the actual queueing strategy tradeoffs. Queueus are okay, depends on what you want to do with them.
http://queuewiz.queuemetrics.com/
When you have too much advice, it sounds like you have regret. That's terrible
Actually, journald exists for a number of reasons, listed here:

https://docs.google.com/document/pub?id=1IC9yOXj7j6cdLLxWEBA...
I think the OSX and iOS approach with @2x and @3x is the only sane way to go and is genius in its simplicity. It really works out well even for old apps that aren't updated (just double), while Windows' crazy DPI slider never worked properly. And you mention WPF, which for the longest had crazy blurring artifacts even in its text rendering.

People often say "just use SVG/PDF/vectors for all the things" but look online and you'll find many good arguments against it, not least because icons and text at lower pixel sizes really needs to be "pixeled" manually to look good.
I heard they were going to make children wear goggles when playing conkers too!
You're still letting FB know that its existing users are your customers, which breaches your customer's privacy. Imagine that Ashley Madison did that!
Even today, the celestial co-ordinates we use are based on references to the positions of extra-galactic radio sources. See for example ICRF (1)

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To be more precise, these are first world YCombinator problems :). Unless there is something great cooking behind the scenes, raising $3MM in seed is not really a piece of cake.
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These images are probably cherry picked as the most successful recognitions. We need more data until we can say whether it can actually recognize young girls in images confidently, or just sometimes gets "lucky". That's why they say that not all traffic situations can be understood. The algorithms aren't perfect.
I don't see how you reached your conclusion, and why would it be ironic if true.
As opposed to doing what?
I quite agree with you, but not completely. It's true that Turing & Cburch fundamentals are complete, in that anything we describe in computation can be expressed in terms of those. But I think we are using a very small subset of all Turing-Church based computing, and refinements of this understanding will provide a qualitatively better algebra for the types of software we really create. This will make it easier both for engineers to create software, and for end-users to do things that nowadays only programmers can do.

Both ends you describe (computer science and software engineering) are to me part of the same continuum. We still have articulate most of it with a coherent theory.
But you don't know what advances would happen in 40,000 years, that too on another solar system. Maybe alien kids would be playing in their back-yard beside their Oort cloud equivalent and might check out Voyager just for fun.
Counterevidence: http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultimatum_game
> 360x640 at 3x would fit the 1080x1920 native resolution perfectly

But then you'd end up with a comically large UI at 6" with no space for any content because everything's so huge on the screen. The entire point of the larger phone is to have more content area.
Avoiding gendered words as a recept for more women in IT seems very funny to me.

My language forces you to add gender-dependent postfixes to every verb and noun. Nobody have a problem with that, and I think there's more women in IT here than in US.

It's obviously not the source of problem. The source is people being jerks. You don't fix that by changing the non-jerks language (jerks won't care).

In fact nonjerks weren't jerks because they treated women the same as everybody. When you embarass them into treating women differently (more carefully) it becomes more awkward and reminds women more often they are different here. Counterproductive IMHO.

Regarding unnessesary vulgarity - it seems weird for me, no matter if it's gendered or not. But people use different styles of communication, that's the diversity people are so proud of.

Regarding SQL - yes please. It's a perfectly good wheel, don't reinvent it without a really good reason.
There's tint2 for doing native apps with JS.
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Beg your pardon, I wasn't trying to suggest that you should sit further from the screen, not at all.

I was just stressing the fact that depending on the size and distance, even sub-100ppi screen densities might be good enough.

Admittedly if you sit 20" from the screen regardless of its size you may want a slightly higher ppi.
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What sales tools are processes are there for leads?
I feel like throwing a NullReferenceException would be the more appropriate way to deal with it. Either treat Some(null) as a valid value, or treat it as an error. Silently coercing it will lead to problems down the line, like with the Some(Some(null)) case mentioned.
I think that's more the fault of windows than anything else. I mean, why do I need a shortcut key for changing language? I'm going to do that so often I need a shortcut do I? Nope.

Always turned off for me.
The real problem here is that http is unencrypted by default. It really should be encrypted so that passive listeners can't see the traffic.
I know that this is no protection against man in the middle attacks, but at least WiFi sniffers and similiar would be stopped. State Actors would have to actively do something which might be registered.
It would be a great improvement, because in the current system, most websites are going to stay unencrypted because it takes money and effort to set up a certificate.
The millions of shared hosters won't do it by default.

What we can do:
- Change the http protocol to be encrypted?
- create an apache module that automatically does this and needs no setup time (generate private keys automatically?)

Of course there shouldn't be any indicator of this encryption in the adress bar of the browser.

Maybe it's too late.