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I have articles in a couple issues, so I got these free, then a year free and then I subscribed once my free year finished. Probably been a subscriber (free or otherwise) for 3 or 4 years, not sure by now.

I have the deep feeling that the quality of the content shared here on HackerNews has dwindled (may also be that it has drowned by the increase in traffic, though), and this may have (negatively) impacted HM readership.

As a sample point, I was pretty close to cancelling my subscription, since during the past 12-13 issues didn't have that interesting content, compared to the previous ~24-30. Of course, totally subjective, but a year and a half ago I was happy to see the "HM issue available for download email," and now it was more of a "meh." The quality of the magazine was always superb, though: perfectly crafted with aesthetically pleasant articles and layout. So, not to blame the team there.

I hope you luck in your next venture!
Without the touch ID, a long password is too inconvenient.
Be very careful of using baby wipes on sensitive stuff. A lot of them can remove varnish from nails. I was very surprised when I saw this taking in account the intended usage of the wipes.
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I use MacDown for the same purpose - keeping class notes. I write in markdown and export to pdf. I would definitely recommend it to anyone.
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That's a great personal approach!
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I really wanted to subscribe at one point, but then I wondered why I would do that since I was already reading HN daily. Why wait for the news? I guess other people who would be interested in such a magazine would face the same problem, content is already here on time and free.
Easy to use and efficient.
Loudness of course isn't new to commercials, but recently I noticed that some TV shows are also compressed into oblivion, resulting in a very noticeable pumping effect between dialogue and the ambient noise in-between.
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If we want to encourage more women to breast-feed then tell them how much weight they will lose. Based on my observations breast-feeding is like having your own personal liposuction machine.

More seriously we need to help women breast-feed if they want without making them feel like failures or bad mothers if they don’t. It is a hard problem, but one that is worth trying to come up with a solution.
But.. you already posted a solution to your problem - use chinese font for chinese and japanese font for japanese. There is no problem. I mean, you would also presumably use a western font for latin and another separate font for cyrillic, since japanese fonts universally have absolutely dreadful kerning on latin (and often omit cyrillic entirely).
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Well that's a meta argument if their ever was one and a good point.

Let me summarise at a more abstract level; people are eager to differentiate from others because to be honest we're pretty boring and uninterestif, myself included. They do this by clinging onto all sorts of irrational non-scientific beliefs. Some of these become almost ritualistic'(squirting breast milk on a child's head rather than using dentinox to cure cradle cap). Then these beliefs turn into packs and factions primarily for maintaining supposed differentials and rituals. Other people don't care (like myself) but are somewhat vexed at the suggestion our time needs to be wasted on such things at every available opportunity. This is a bad human trait that manifests itself in many ways.
It is difficult to photograph food and make it look nice. If you photograph real food as t comes from the kitchen it looks nasty. If you fake the food (boat varnish the chicken) it sets unrealistic expectation.

Restaurants don't have much money. Single colour printing; dual colour printing; are cheaper than full colour printing. That cost recurrs every time you change your menu. You don't want anything forcing you to stay to the same menu.

Photographs of food are associated with low quality places.

I do agree that a photo of the food would normally be a good thing. It's more accessible than writing - to people with a reading disability; people with a learning disability; people who don't speak the language the menu is written in.
I seem to remember years ago reading that the Japanese language was related to Finnish and considered to be in the same family.

Maybe things have changed or I'm mis-remembering.
Isn’t this the effect of removing lead from the environment? People with high IQ’s don’t see the value of a few more IQ points (marginal utility), but when you have an IQ of around 80 then every point makes a huge difference.
Seems like a superficial problem, most of the LCD is in order. Couldn't Apple issue a recall for the small number of affected user, give them a new screen back. Meanwhile they de-laminate and re-laminate the stained ones ?
As far as I understand it, they ignore FAFSA information but could probably still get an idea of the kid's background based on school, personal statements, etc. I'll admit, it sounds like this wouldn't be as effective for helping disadvantaged students. On the other hand, I think it gives schools plausible deniability for admitting a high number of students who wouldn't need financial aid, giving the school more money.
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I had the same on 15" rMBP, basically touchpad's edges "printed" on the screen with some more "stains" in other parts of the screen. It began with a barely noticeable horizontal line after around 8 months and got progressively worse and worse up to the point it was taking around 1/16th of the screen. I always used water to clean the screen. Ended up paying ~300 EUR for a replacement screen, no issues since. Apple didn't offer replacement for free.
She probably wants to fit in with her friends/family.
You speak as though, these things wouldn't have come without the British; I'm sure Japan today is a poor backwards country, for they weren't blessed with the act of "civilizing" by the cross.

Pah!
The psychology of mass government surveillance
The cheap (flawed, but better than nothing) way is to have the SSID be something like "Businessname Public (Password: iev8eiM9)" or similar, or just have it on a blackboard inside, which has the bonus of stopping people outside using it so easily.

The whole standard it a mess; it should have opportunistic encryption on open networks, then clients can display a warning if this doesn't happen for whatever reason ("Anything you send or receive over this network may be readable by others" or similar).
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I am not sure why you are being down voted as you make a good point. The only think I can add is most diamonds have a history that stretches back a few billion years. Diamonds are amazing things, but I am not sure if they should be linked to love.
I think the problem is that HTTPS carries the connotation of security, renaming this proposal would make it obvious to users what the expectations are.

Lets change the name of it to something like httpe e for encrypted, s for secure.

Let's change the behavior of httpe to automatically accept the first key it sees for a domain.

Browsers have the option of uploading the lists of domains and keys to their creator, Firefox, Google, etc which can then be collated and updated from the browser.

This data could be used to spot where MITM attacks are taking place.
Exactly this. It's a website, we shouldn't expect to scroll differently.

This whole fad better die soon!
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Trolls are reinforcing the bubble by "proving" that everyone outside of it is purely an asshole with no intent to have a conversation, merely to insult and ridicule and try to cause people to leave the forum.
Damn no idea this existed :(
Nobody needs the people who harass others and attempt to ridicule them into silence.
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Would you willing to provide me any detail about the issues you run into with Gmail?
> In the old days 1994, there was at least some journalistic content on the news with Peter Jennings.

And people from a prior generation laughed at the idea of Peter Jennings being 'journalistic' and pinned their ideals on Brinkley and Huntley. Basically, this statement says nothing and means nothing, because it's just a generational marker, nothing more.
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Maybe a comprehension test isn't a bad idea. It would probably keep just as many whites from voting nowadays as well.
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4) Because spartan is as much (if not more) about removing features from IE than adding them. Also, IE will ship with win10 for legacy support.

3) and 4) Based on my experience with win10, MS are executing extremely well these days. I can't wait for Spartan and the new office.
Too bad, I was considering subscribing to the printed version in a few months ahead.
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I think you misunderstand the difference between causality and correlation.

The nurture is where the causality chain starts.
As far as I'm concerned, a kidnapping case from two states away isn't news.

News is something which could affect me or which I could affect; if it's an Amber Alert from my hometown or close by, it's news in a vague sense that, in theory, I might have some effect on it. (Statistically I'd have a better shot at winning a small prize in a lottery, but still...)

So: The Columbine school shooting? Not news. I've never lived near Columbine. The laws and changing social attitudes as a result of that? News.
Actually, that's not correct, and it's the exact same mistake I made when using that API. codePointAt returns the codepoint at index i, where i is measured in 16-bit chars, which means you could index into the middle of a surrogate pair.

The correct version is:

for (int i = 0; i < string.length(); i = string.offsetByCodePoints(i, 1))
{
int codepoint = string.codePointAt(i);
}

Java 8 seems to have acquired a codePoints() method on the CharSequence interface which seems to do the same thing.

But this just adds to the fact, proper Unicode string processing is a pain :).
Yes I agree - working on that. It's definitly what gets people comfortable using classified boards. Stay tuned!
It is not Maslov, but Parasuraman[0] for automation and decision selection:

1. The computer offers no assistance.
2. ... offers a complete set of actions.
3. ... narrows the selection down to a few.
4. ... suggests one alternative.
5. ... executes the suggestion if the human approves.
6. ... allows the human a restricted time to veto the execution.
7. ... executes, then informs the human.
8. ... executes, informs the human when asked.
9. ... executes, informs the human when the computer decides to.
10. ... acts automatically.

This is a framework for more than user interfaces, but it comes close.

Look at Fig. 1 in the paper.

[0] https://hci.cs.uwaterloo.ca/faculty/elaw/cs889/reading/autom...
Encoding those as the same code point makes sense. On the other hand, just the codepoint is obviously not enough on its own for rendering the glyph. The Unicode consortium seem not to care about the actual rendering part of the whole stack and are happy just defining the low-level bits. But then why do we have skin colour coding for emoji and no language coding for CJK glyphs? The entire thing is a mess, but heaping another pile of standards on top of it will make it even more of a mess, I'm afraid.
If it was a German person making this claim against the FBI, I would be as sceptical as you are. However, this is a US Citizen who was held without charge and tortured. My only claim, and its a reasonable one, is that this sort of thing can only be done with the tacit approval of the State Department or the FBI.

It is possible that they took an interest in him out of the blue, but he had done nothing suspicious in UAE to warrant such brutality. Suppose he had done something suspicious in Dubai, does it seem likely that any client regime would do this to a US Citizen to ask them "who was the bearded man you met with last Thursday?" The story that he was asked about the mosque in Portland is much more plausible.

Sadly, the US exercises enormous influence on small regimes like the one in UAE.
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While I understand your frustration with 'too many languages', Racket is older than quite a few (started in '95). I also think the danger of having this attitude is that if we all thought like this nothing would become better. If no one wanted to get out of C++ we wouldn't have had many languages.

The premise behind Racket, in broad strokes, is to provide a platform and programming language for making new programming languages. The most important identifier/keyword in Racket is '#lang' (specified at the top of a file to tell Racket which language the file is in). It's a whole ecosystem in which a multitude of languages exist and the only thing they really need to have in common is that on some level they speak Racket.

Personally, I think the above paragraph explains how exciting Racket as a language and platform is, but it doesn't sound that interesting on the surface. It does allow people to create things like this[0] and this[1], though, which displays real practical use; shaping the way you solve the problem to fit the actual problem.

[0] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oSmqbnhHp1c - Naughty Dog's scripting language
[1] http://pollenpub.com/ - A web book publishing language
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Problem with installing anything manually is patch management. And we take patch management very seriously.
It would be impossible to do. Even back in 1991 when unicode was conceived almost all the encodings in use were ASCII-compatible.

For languages that would be affected by a greco-unification that meant the encodings that were in use before unicode had both the latin script and their "national" script.

Implementing greco-unification in unicode would mean that round-trip lossless conversion (from origin encoding to unicode back into origin encoding) would be impossible, greatly limiting unicode's adoption.

No such problem existed with han characters, in fact JIS X 0208 (the character set used for Shift-JIS) did a very similar thing to unicode's han unification.

In absence of backwards compatibility problems I would be in favor of greco-unification too.
Who also happens to be the great-grandfather of Armie Hammer, who played the Winklevoss twins in The Social Network.
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Some unsolicited advice: Tell her it's not about the money. Tell her you want to spend it on something useful (like a future child's savings account) or fun (like a trip for two around the world) but not on a piece of jewellery.
I noticed this a while ago on my 2012 MBA. The "stains" on the screen take the shape of the keyboard, so I wiped it down (can't remember the material I used) and then from then on I keep a sheet of A4 paper between the keyboard and screen when it's closed and it hasn't come back since.
I'm always a bit surprised that HN doesn't get this. The rest f this point isn't aimed at you.

Just swallow your principles and buy the ring. It's a few thousand dollars amortised over the length of the marrage. Over seven years it's like $40 a month which for a lot of HN is pocket change.

She can point to a bunch of stuff that you buy which has inflated price that you rationalise away as useful spending -- coffee from a coffee shop is a scam yet people don't think twice about it.

Edit: a word
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I don't think it's complete nonsense - buying something useless and expensive is a very strong signal (like the peacocks tail). Buying something useful for the money instead is not the same thing at all.

So while the diamond thing was created through advertising, it persists because it has a real function. Maybe it could be replaced by something else, but that would probably be something just as useless to demonstrate commitment.

Still, if you can get by without the investment, good for you.
The issue with this code is not that it isn't eager enough. It deoesn't free the memory ever (for value of ever "till the whole stack is not freed, that can be the whole runtime of the program").
That's correct; I don't use the mouse for everyday computing, just for occasional game playing. The last time I used it nontrivially for work was when I did the PCB design for the Atreus.
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No. Using different code points for the same character used in different languages creates big problems. It would be like having different code points for 'A' depending on whether it was used in English, Spanish, German, etc. If you somehow ended up writing "color" with both 'o' characters from the Spanish ABCs and the others from the English ABCs, you'd have a real mess when it came to sorting, searching, name matching (what language is "Hans"?) etc. It is far more convenient to allow the character sequence "color" or "Hans" to be language independent, even if the font choices, pronunciation, sort order, etc., are language dependent.

Chinese, Japanese, and Korean writers face similar issues. The characters they use to write the name of China or Japan, the ten digits, the characters for year, month, and day in dates, and so many thousands of others in Chinese characters are what they all consider to be the same characters. That is not all characters, but it includes so many that insisting on different code points by language would make a real mess. Hong Kong has many characters that are unique to HK Cantonese. So, should Cantonese have a full set of all Chinese characters that are the "Cantonese characters"? How about Shanghainese, then? Or Hakka? Teochew (Chaozhou) or a dozen Chinese languages? Full, independent sets of all Chinese characters for each? Suppose you accidentally used an input method in HK and wrote the name of some Beijing gov't ministry using characters that looked identical to their Mandarin counterparts but were entirely different codepoints? Now what? You can't find your search term? You mess up the database and have two identical-looking keys?

No, Han unification is not conceptually different from unifying ABCs used by English and Spanish speakers, Cyrillic used by Russians or Serbs, etc., except that there are many more characters, so the boundary between what should be unified and what shouldn't contains more items in the gray zone to cause debate. Having no Han unification at all wouldn't solve all problems, it would create all sorts of absurdity.
Thanks for that. I've already made use of it since you pointed it out.
>[on YT] Everything plays at a similar loudness, regardless of how it was mastered. And no-one has noticed.

None of us noticed; it seems like the labels and sound engineers may have; take this image comparing the dynamic range of the CD and youtube releases of Pharrell's "Happy"[1]- I thought at the time it might just have been a mishap or random occurance, but now it looks like it was a very deliberate move.

So, rather than ending the loudness wars on CDs and radio, we might end up long-term with the ludicrous situation where CD's sound worse than technically inferior Youtube videos. Youtube is the new vinyl.

-

E: I added links to the YT release[2] and (presumaby) a CD-sourced video[3] for anyone who wants to listen to the difference. Pay attention to the claps and drums (but I think it's obvious even on my laptop speakers).

1. https://imgur.com/KRj5DDS

2. https://youtu.be/ZbZSe6N_BXs

3. https://youtu.be/nVH6RcLHqMo
My understanding is that Colemak isn't any more effective than Dvorak; it's just closer to Qwerty, which makes it easier to learn up-front.

But honestly once you get away from Qwerty there's a law of diminishing returns. The differences between non-Qwerty layouts are pretty miniscule compared to the difference between Qwerty and good layouts.
Good to get some figures on this. Quantifying fear and inaction is always going to be tricky.

Having recently taken part in the 'Don't spy on us' campaign by the ORG, my local MP replied with how proud we should be of our services and how 'GCHQ operates at all times in accordance with the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act (RIPA)', also noting that:

It is important to balance protecting national security and protecting
the British public with the potential intrusion on individuals' rights
to privacy that could be caused by intelligence activity.

So in essence, "Don't worry, dear subject, any privacy you do give up is for your own protection and I can assure you that it is all handled most sensitively. As such, I won't be representing your views in parliament. Sorry, Snowden? What's one of those then? My blind faith won't let me consider one of those."
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No don't do this. Just buy the ring. Buy flowers and nice cards more often than valentines and apologies -- buy flowers when you're not in trouble.

Edit: a word
That AOL/TimeWarner merger tho...
Read the first bit, then scanned some, then read the closing, so fair warning: I may have missed some important parts. (I like The Atlantic, but I do not always have time to consume it)

I think the problem in digesting all of this that the author describes is due to the fact that this is not a science -- it's philosophy. That doesn't make it any less real, it just makes the issues and questions more difficult to grasp.

I would find it odd if people traveled half-way around the world to go to a conference on NDEs and all thought the idea was hokum, so the author may be a little unfair in his observations. If you're looking for falsifiability and reproducibility in something that so far has been intermittant and subjective, then you are using the wrong tool.

What's probably going to happen -- especially with some of the suspended animation stuff going on -- is that we'll start seeing an emerging "science of death". Assuming the suspended animation stuff keeps chugging along, the AI guys start augmenting/transferring small bits of consciousness, and we gain better and better instrumentation to look at what happens at death? We're going to start seeing a really cool field of study open up in another 20-40 years. But we ain't there yet, sadly. Right now it's just a lot of fumbling around in the dark.
OK kind of TLDR; I just took the packages that they use from the link they had provided.

boltons==0.4.1

cffi==0.8.6

clastic==0.4.2

cryptography==0.7.2

enum34==1.0.4

faststat==0.3.1

gevent==1.0.1

greenlet==0.4.5

hyperloglog==0.0.9

lithoxyl>=0.1.0

psutil==2.2.1

py==1.4.26

pyasn1==0.1.7

pycparser==2.10

pyjks>=0.3.0.1

pyOpenSSL==0.14

pytest==2.6.4

sampro==0.1

ufork>=0.0.1

six==1.9.0

Werkzeug==0.9.4
I am not sure it's the final nail. I think at some point they may start playing the commercials louder. I had to skip a lot of Czech commercials simply because they were too loud.
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They also get around the increasing delay enforced after a certain number of failures, to slow down bruteforce attacks.
Google+ has ( or had ) this feature.
Zero stroke
The actual paper contains much more information than this BBC article. I'm not sure why they didn't link to it, but here is the original paper at the Lancet [1] as well as the full-text pdf file [2].

[1]: http://www.thelancet.com/journals/langlo/article/PIIS2214-10...

[2]: http://www.thelancet.com/pdfs/journals/langlo/PIIS2214-109X(...
What we can perceive collectively tells us little about our collective consciousness. Humans are more than just meat.