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>I loved the parts when Romero swam across the lake to work all night with the rest of the crew,

That was also one of my favorite passages:

"The lake house was filled with the sense of unlimited possibilities. And
the bond between Carmack and Romero was becoming stronger by the day.
It was like two tennis players who, alter years of destroying their competition,
finally had a chance to play equals. Romero pushed Carmack to be a better
programmer. Carmack pushed Romero to be a better designer. What they
shared equally was their passion.

This was most clear to Carmack one late weekend night. He was sitting in
the house working at his PC as lightning flashed outside. Mitzi curled lazily
on top of his monitor, her legs draping over the screen. The heat of her body
was causing Carmack’s heat-sensitive display to ooze its colors. He pushed
Mitzi gently from the monitor, and she scurried away with a hiss.

A rainstorm had picked up, and it was mighty. Cross Lake spilled into the
backyard like the prelude to a horror movie. The lake was so high that it
pushed the ski boat to the top of the boathouse. Long black water moccasins
slithered toward the deck. The bridge leading to Lakeshore Drive was completely
washed out. When Jay arrived after having been out for the day, there
was no way to get in. It was, as he described it, “a turd floater” of a storm,
bringing everything from the bottom of the lake to the surface. He turned
away to wait it out.

Romero arrived with a friend later to find the bridge even worse than
when Jay got there. There was simply no way he was going to get his car over
the flooded expanse. And there were probably alligators and moccasins now
making it their home.

Back in the house, Carmack resigned himself to working on his own that
night. After all these hours, he had come to appreciate Romero’s diverse range
of talents, gleaned from years of making his own Apple II games. Romero
had been not only a coder but an artist, a designer, and a businessman. On
top of all that, he was fun. Romero didn’t just love games; in a sense, he was a
game, a walking, talking, beeping, twitching human video game who never
seemed to let anything get him down. Like a game character, he could always
find an extra life.

Just then the door behind Carmack swung open. Mitzi dashed under his
feet. Carmack turned to see Romero standing there with his big thick glasses,
soaking wet up to his chest, lightning flashing behind him, a big smile on his
face. It was a real moment, a moment so impressive that Carmack actually
saved it in his thin file of sentimental memories. This one he wanted for
future access: the night Romero waded through a stormy river to work."
Well Chrome is not open source at all, all that Google integration is proprietary.

Chromium is fine, and I use it next to FF all day every day. I have never tried committing to it so I have no idea, but the general mindshare seems to be Chromium contributions are Google dominated.
It will only buy them a little time, at best. Renewable technology continues to improve. Some estimates put it at an 8% average improvement rate per year. If this is correct, then in 10 years the cost effectiveness will have doubled. And that's about all it will take to push out oil and gas. Renewables are already close to cost parity with oil and gas today. So even $20 per barrel oil will not be able to compete by 2030. But, there are other uses for oil, so don't expect it to ever go away completely.
Grass-fed steak has about twice as many omega-3s as a typical grain-fed steak. And since grass-fed cattle are typically leaner, almost all cuts of grass-fed beef have less total fat than beef from corn-raised cattle.

Of course, Beef Magazine will refute those numbers with industry-sponsored "studies", but I tend to take them with a grain of salt (just like my steak).
Probably something to do with forgoing all the things you mentioned so that they could nail the true purpose of a laptop, while also making it aesthetically pleasing. This is a tenet of who Apple is as a company. Whether you agree with the aesthetic position is a personal preference. The figures speak for themselves though... a large proportion of consumers which includes IT professionals want what Apple sells more than they want the things in your Thinkpad.

*Edit for spelling.
"Resources"? At the end of the day, a soldier needs you to put food in him -- just like anyone else. That food comes from somewhere. It is scarce. It is not free. This is aside from all the things he'll expect to be able to buy with his pay that use resources, or the uniform / weapons / boats / fuel / et cetera.

While an army is a useful insurance policy in a variety of situations, the best case scenario is really that these people do nothing. Believe it or not, it does not make the Greek people any more prosperous to have many people standing around doing nothing, unless the money you pay them to do it comes from somewhere other than Greece and isn't ever going to be paid back.

-- which, to be fair, is a tactic that works once every few generations! One could make a case that it is a simplified version the story of Greece the past decade. You see these debt renegotiation promises in the news now.

More broadly, though, the economy is about producing valuable things (or services), not about money. It is trivially obvious that an idle soldier is not producing much of value at his post and cannot assist the economy in any way. Even middle-management at IBM at least pretends that they're helping accomplish something worth money to someone.

And nowhere in the history of the world has ever been able to fix economic stagnation or crisis by spending more money on the military, though it has run great empires into the ground.
Berlin Flat, which is comparable, is 600MB. And that's the full project, no mobile optimisation.
This looks really good, thanks for posting! I will definitely try this out tomorrow :)
Matt 6:25.
Good to see AB testing applied to SEO instead of just UX changes. The tl;dr version:

A/B testing is:

bucket(hash(experiment, user identifier))

A/B testing for SEO is:

bucket(hash(experiment, url))
This is a good comparison: https://groups.google.com/d/msg/clojurescript/yxpDGv6RrXQ/Fs...
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The vast majority of customers don't care about any of those. They're willing to pay a little more for something that is reliable, not too heavy, looks nice, well designed, and sturdy. These are things that bring people utility but won't show up on a specs sheet.
Agreed -- no attribution given to Žižek either.
"The story of the guys that created the FPS" sounds pretty cool to me.
Yea its strange, b/c its propaganda. People had barely realized the prices were going down before they started saturating the news with "huge demand for trucks and SUV" stories. Its bullocks. They put that fake news out in order to encourage people to go do exactly that.
I use WebSockets. You could also use Server Sent Events.
This kind of thing happens way too much. For example, I've seen it with currencies as well. It's amazing how many people appear to implicitly assume that when you can buy, say, X >> 1 yen for one USD, that somehow means that the yen is an inferior currency. Unless you put things into historical context, those ratios are meaningless.

People understand this at a rational level when you point it out to them, but I do wonder about the extent of the economic effect of their flawed gut-level intuitions.
I agree with you, actually. I just thought it was still sufficiently popular to get support, especially alongside a lot of other integrated services that I've never even heard of.
I always rely on the copyright field of the paper for dating. Since these papers go into proceedings, the templates don't provide for (or allow for) obvious dating fields.
> we can support multiple content protection technologies on different platforms with a single set of assets, making YouTube play faster and smoother.

Man this line is hilarious. Your DRM to block users from keeping the videos you are sending them is not making the experience faster or smoother. Don't try to pass off user-hostile proprietary blobs restricting the data on their computer as anything but a terrible blow to a free and open Internet.

You can say, "yay drm", but say "yay drm", not "yay drm, bullshit about faster and smoother". At least own up to the fact you are crippling UX for personal gain.
No need to be sorry, data > anecdotes. I use Whatsapp with a group of 20 friends to organize nights out and basically use it as a long-running IRC room. We also have different groups for movies, board games, etc. It's the group functionality that makes it better than SMS.
Meditate on free will for a while with our friend Krishna and when you "know" that materialism can not be reconciled with free will, I'll let you know where you can send my porsche. :)

The smartest people I know are at least agnostic, recognizing that something else is going on but struggling with the ability to identify it. I don't trust the atheists, to me it means they haven't thought about it enough or they think we're all bio-robo-zombies (sounds like a good B movie). If you think we're all bio-robo-zombies, I get worried that you might be a bio-robo-zombie.

And I'll be damned if I'm gonna trust a bio-robo-zombie with this decision. (See what I did there? Oh, come on that was pretty good. ~sigh~... this is why no one invites me to parties)
Incidentally, and I don't want to influence or prime anyone reading this so I'll simply suggest you look it up yourself: Dr. Shaw runs a company that sells mail order tests for (among other things) "heavy metals" in your child. Your child is given a chelation agent to increase the excretion of said metals, and your child's resulting scores are compared to those of people who were not given the chelating agent. Then (surprise!) you can buy his books or his treatment medications, and even get more tests designed to instill fear, uncertainty and doubt.

Never you mind there's no science-based treatment option here, no double-blind studies (or, indeed, any at all). There are plenty of anecdotes, and if you want the best for your child, anecdotes are enough, right? Affirmations of success from people who paid out the ass to experiment on their unwitting children, each one of those is worth two or three subjects in a real scientific study, right?

Sorry. I'm passionate about this subject in particular.
That can still work, as long as I can set the phone to vibrate-only. Otherwise, I wonder if anyone makes an IFTTT-driven device to do it.
I'm not terribly clear on this either, but who exactly will actually have a quantifiable/taxable gain by this demerger? Yahoo the company used to have some Alibaba, and now they will not. Yahoo the shareholders used to have some Yahoo+Alibaba, now they have some Yahoo and some Alibaba. I'm honestly curious, what would be appropriate to tax here?
Attribution for the premise of They Live?
One factor that I don't quite understand is how the lower prices could possibly sway investors to continue to invest heavily in oil industries. I can imagine how it may slow the investment in alternative energy, but to convince savvy investors that the future of energy is in oil seems impossible to me.

I read this whole situation as big oil finally realizing what they're up against, and deciding that they just need do everything they can to squeeze every last ounce of cash out of their oil. After the tides finally turn, the oil producing countries will likely have a lot of issues to deal with. Possibly for decades to come.
The Netflix UI is not completely consistent, so on some screens the option is not available, but in theory you can rate a movie as "Not Interested" for these cases.
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Just tried a few encodes: to my poor ears, 64kbit Opus is fine on headphones!
Yup. Similarly, I wish they'd stop recommending entire sets of options based on a TV show I abandoned halfway through the first episode three months ago because it was so bad.
I dont understand, this is prolly the most short-sighted move ever in the history of mankind.

Don't the saudis realize that that climate change is terrible news for them ? The climate is already unbearable in the middle east. If temperatures rise any further its going to be a disaster for them.

Also the saudis seem to not understand basic economics. They are essentially wasting their massive cash reserve to give western consumers a tax break. They could have wasted it on improvnig the state of their society and making individual saudi more productive but nope. Cannot wait for their country to turn into mars.

The little environment they have that allows them to grow food would be in danger.

Its so depressing.
Gotta love those benchmarks for 4k payloads... those are some big messages right there.
We're limited to ipv4 so even if you hash it you could still test every possible address within a few minutes. You can even do the same with the bloom filter, since there's at worst only a 1/1000 false positive rate (and likely much smaller). The bloom filter isn't designed to provide security, and trying to make (ipv4) IPs private if you're using them as identities is a lost cause.
People have trouble planning beyond the short term. For most people buying a car, if they think about fuel costs at all, it'll be in terms of what they last paid to fill up their tank, and what they saw on gas station signs as they drove to the dealership.

These same people will be evaluating the price in terms of the monthly payments, and evaluating options along the lines of, "It's only $20/month, I might as well."

Be prepared for a glut of cheap used SUVs on the market in a few years.
State of io.js
Thanks! There are plans for an itunes release soon.
How to build swipeable table view cells in iOS apps
Haven't see a "not interested" option in the iOS app. Where does it show up?
Pretty sure the open file dialog being read only is a feature and not a bug - you also can't move things around, delete things, etc. I actually like this b/c when I want to find a file, I don't want to move something accidentally. It also lets them implement things like dragging a file from Finder to open dialog to select it (that feature doesn't make sense if your file pickers can also modify the files).
Would love citation on the OS X new overlords claim.
Throughout my career I have met more than a few semi-professional meeting attenders. They are usually the worst type of people to be in a meeting with. And like a lot of people with stuff to do, I find most meetings a waste of time and generally avoid them.

However, I make an exception for meetings with especially interesting or sexy people. Those meetings can't go on long enough. Work (which is very important) takes second place to being in the company of very interesting people. What is life about anyway?
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"How to meet with me" could be less pretentious phrased as something like "the meeting style I try to aim for". It's more "let's try to do it like this" and less "here's how you have to act with me", IMO.
The new era of Artificial Intelligence
I'm finding that Chrome hit sort of a decline from a personal peak in that current versions seem to be pigs on resource constrained systems, and has started to move backwards in terms of UI friendlyness (e.g. frequent requests for login to google accounts, rollout of more difficult user profile switching). IIRC the integrated flash plugin in Chrome is proprietary and at times it seems to be at the root of hanging processes or runaway resource consumption with Chrome. Ironically flash compatibility is one of the reasons I keep Chrome around - I've dropped flash plugins for all my other browsers...

I'm hoping it's a local max/temporary decline for Chrome, but Firefox now feels like the lighter of the two browsers in my use.
I would also like to know why you made the switch in the first place. Was it the more-easily-distributed nature of nsq?
Those interested in immutable data-structures might like to look into Irmin [1], git-like distributed storage (due to be released soon). It's also part of a larger stack [2].

[1] http://openmirage.org/blog/introducing-irmin -- prev discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8053687

[2] http://amirchaudhry.com/brewing-miso-to-serve-nymote/
Every time this topic comes up, we have people talking about really different things not clearly explaining what they are referring to, and causing confusion and people not understanding the reasoning of others.

I've read the following arguments already, but with portions of them implicit. See if you can determine why the people are talking at cross points:

- "I generate VM server images for all my needs, and deploy to virtualization infrastructure behind load balancers to handle services. I treat he OS like an application like the rest of the stack, and all my data is abstracted to a data layer. I just generate a new image with patches and test it, then deploy if it works in my test suite."

- "I have hundreds of servers in dozens of roles with different software needs, and I need them to be secure and stable in a timely fashion, and I can't spend multiple weeks achieving that. Long term support and back-patching allows me the time to plan needed large changes in infrastructure without having to spend all my time managing updates, software changes and configuration changes multiple steps down the dependency graph."

- "I have a few servers with a few roles, or many servers with one or two roles, and I can manage frequent updates just fine, and it allows me to take advantage of the newest features, get security updates immediately as the software authors fix it, and I don't have to worry about end of life of software."

- "I have an application stack with multiple dependencies, and I just make sure to update my stack as I make changes to the software. I would love/have set up continuous integration software to build and test everything as I go, so I know if it works or not before taking it live."

As someone who's been in all of these situations at different points, often multiple at once, let me be clear: Unless you have an argument that addresses ALL of these situations, you really haven't thought through the issue.
It used to be that banks would let you open an account without an SSN but they would automatically close it after a period of time if you did not provide one. However since the "Know your customer" regulations Banks are a lot more skittish about opening accounts for people without the proper identifiers.

Probably the best way to start is to talk to your existing bank and see if they have arrangements in place for this sort of thing (most of the large ones do). They can probably also tell you what identifiers you will need to obtain. Be warned generally these kinds of account either require you to maintain a minimum balance or pay a monthly fee.
agreed. was just thinking about the shuffling in/out time of a few people - getting seated, checking if a projector works, etc. that's easily 1-2 minutes at the start or end - 6% of the time gone!!

edit: the time to get up and lock the door, then unlock it, and to likely admonish the person who was late - that's also wasted time.
Does any one know if there is a super easy way to also eliminate silent portions of the video? For example copying notes, changing blackboards, pauses in speech, erasing blackboards, etc? I feel like this could achieve similar results as 1.5x without as much strain, or could make 1.5 even faster. Bonus points for removing like, umm, uhh, etc
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Online games involve interaction with other humans. We are wired to like these, even if we are paranoid little monkeys who have forgotten how to leave our own houses.

When you spend all your time staring into the screen, interacting with people through the medium of a game, after a while your only friends are people you've met through the game. And you usually can't say "fuck this game, let's go have some beer iRL" very easily, because your game friends have no guarantee of living anywhere near you. So you keep on meeting in the space of the game.

You end up with nothing but these tenuous virtual relationships. Ones founded entirely on text, ones where there's the immediacy of real time but never a touch, or a kiss. They're shitty relationships that can't fully sustain you, but they're better than the absolute lack of anything out in the real world that you'll have to suffer for who knows how long until you start making friends and lovers in reality? Less frightening to stay. It sucks, it's miserable, but it's just enough emotional contact to get by on. Leave it and you'd have nothing.

It doesn't matter what you're playing. My time in that particular downward spiral was via a socialization-focused MUD.
Show HN: New colorful unit converter
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> it's a very important battle for everybody who cares about freedom.

Hyperbole much?
>I occasionally wanted to watch Youtube videos that were Flash only

Are there any examples of flash only video? I used to use a 3rd party extension that would show videos in html5 and i never came accross any video that required me to load it in flash. I'm curious how Youtube tries to deliver those videos now.
Yeah, some people find jobs to drain their coding desire. Pretty individual, I'm sure. For me, I have to hack at home to keep my enthusiasm for software.
RealPlayer's popularity was being first. At a time when most of the internet was accessed with dial-up modems and they offered a high compression media format.

What killed them was the iPod. Or rather, computers and bandwidth improved so better quality compression could be used. Then RealPlayer limped along on name recognition alone. Although during the early days of h.264 it was the easiest way to play an MP4 on Windows.
I would be fairly amazed if it doesn't spike by the end of the summer. The Saudis may be able to pump a lot of oil, but the delivery chain has limits. However the market has been buying less oil recently since the combination of financial crisis and high prices, so there currently is some slack. Once that gets filled and the price starts going up again it will probably spike immediately as everyone simultaneously thinks it is their last chance to buy low.
The antithesis of the Apple Watch
you never used any modern irc server then.
Neato! Also Camlistore: https://camlistore.org/
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Just for context: Without a parachute, these conditions (open ocean, 9-12 foot seas) are hard to survive, right?
That's because investors look at Yahoo as a holding company, with 3 main components : Alibaba, Yahoo Japan and Yahoo (USA/Rest of World). It's quite normal that the value of the holding company is (far) below the sum of its parts. There are multiple reasons for this discount: assets are less liquid, overhead costs, management risks, taxes, etc.
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I'd imagine that facing a row of soldiers aiming things that go "boom" at you must have been an extremely effective way to break morale no matter how inaccurate the projectiles are.

Besides, all that hot lead had to go somewhere. Maybe you wouldn't be hit by the guy in front of you, but you'd still risk getting hit by the one behind him or the ones next to him. Arrows may have been more precise, but at least you could see where they were going.
What's it matter how he'd fit in most Valley startups today? He was who he needed to be for his time.

Not to mention, what happens to "most" Valley startups, anyways?