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I don't see how Ikea could have any impact on that (short of sneaking into Apple's factories and secretly adding wireless charging hardware to their phones...)
That's also part of the reason why films are still shot at 24fps even with advanced cameras. You have fast-paced action scenes at 60fps and it doesn't feel as good as 24fps because you have more information. You take away information and add action blur and it feels more "film-like" and more frantic.
The AN-2 is the Ak-47 of airplanes: extremely durable, well designed, heavily mass produced and found all over the world.

They are also dirt cheap to buy ($20 - 30K) but they burn A LOT of fuel.

I'd always day-dreamed about getting one but I can't imagine it's practical.
You're exactly right. Not only is the ASL (average shot length) decreasing over time, but flurries of quick shots are great for hiding action that doesn't actually happen. It's definitely can be used as a crutch. Not always, it can accelerate the feeling of action, but often feels lazy, and a disservice to the viewer.

e.g. Citizen Kane had an ASL of 12 seconds. Transformers: Dark side of the moon? 3.4seconds! http://www.cinemetrics.lv/database.php Average ASL in 2006 was actually 2.9s.
Moto X 2014 version :/
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Ah, I remember the "white board" wall. Back when the Facebook API came out in 2007-ish, I implemented a functioning lookalike using the API -- at one point, it had around 17,000 users who had logged in, including Mark Zuckerberg himself(!!)

...then Facebook basically killed the API (changing it over to a more of an authentication system than an add-content-to-your-profile system) so that was it for my app.
FreeHAL[1], another (multi language) chat bot and distributed computing project (reading from Wikipedia, IIRC) was also done by a 13-year old.

But in general. A 14-year old isn't that unlikely to be able to program a chatbot, right?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FreeHAL
Even if Twilio were simply providing a proxy for accessing the Google Alerts API, I would use Twilio's proxy over Google's.

Twilio consistently provides excellent documentation and developer support, whereas Google's results on that front are very mixed (varies widely by product).
In politics, just like in life, you ask for the cadillac, you get the dodge. Just like the ACA - small baby steps, painfully small. Slow progress, or you upset the delicate balance too much.
I came back to reply to myself that there is now a Content Security Policy header to deal with this exact situation:

https://w3c.github.io/webappsec/specs/upgrade/

It is included in the Chrome 43 beta [1], and Firefox is working on it as well [2]. This is excellent news for folks looking to upgrade existing sites to HTTPS.

[1] http://blog.chromium.org/2015/04/chrome-43-beta-web-midi-and...

[2] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1139297
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For the downvoter - try it. I don't think i've ever seen anything like it on a mapping application - I added about 20 points, and it worked flawlessly.
This is also what I observed when I compared my life with my younger brother's life.

While growing up, I was surrounded by a peer group of high achievers. I had a generally stable home environment and my reading, math and writing abilities were better than class average.

My younger brother on the other hand never had that peer group. His best friends were bullies and destined to be jocks. He was never into reading, math and writing. This shows in his grades.

What really helped my brother not get sucked into the usual teen bullshit is a good home environment and constant reminder that other kids are not necessarily doing the right thing.

Peer group and family background are pretty much the strongest indicators of future success in life. Also, they are a great indicator of a potential mate. I pretty much use this as a yardstick while dating these days.
> As the An-2's stall speed is considerably slower than freeway traffic, we might actually have been going at about the speed of a car at that point.

Depending where you live, other planes have stall speeds considerably slower than freeway traffic (a Cessna has a stall speed of 50mph/80kmh), the An2 is in the range of urban speed limits (the article and wikipedia both quote pilots reporting full control at 30mph/50kmh airspeed).

Interestingly, it doesn't even trade maximum speed for being unstallable.
First impressions were, wow ambitious project. Then I saw the modest looking website. All along I'm somewhat skeptical whether the project could live up to the expectations in the title.

Then all of a sudden all my questions were answered... It's a Google project.
Did you not get the '5 year head start' bit?

Doesn't matter how fast developers create applications that are amazing, iOS has already had all these years to create an already fantastic subset of these applications.

Doesn't matter how 'good' it looks - for the use case of music, android has simply lost.
“Bye bye electronics ... all now in custody/seized”
I would argue that for the job you are aiming for, you could do it more than fine with a microncontroller like a 3 bucks ATMEGA or Arduino. You would program it in C, and you don't need a 60 bucks FPGA + a 200 bucks for the FPGA controller.

If you are learning, meddling with FPGAs your way is awesome. But nobody is going to use that approach for serious work on production.
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I wonder why barley was/is considered a downscale grain compared to rice?
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>>It's just chat.

No, it is not "just chat." Chat is just one function. Slack basically brings ALL of the information that is relevant to your team in one place. It has out-of-the-box integrations with a TON of services, and all the data they are sending to your team's Slack feed can then be search on, which provides massive productivity advantages.
The problem is you were claiming discrimination where none existed. In that, yes, you were ignoring the other.
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Apparently authorities noticed this tweet: https://twitter.com/Sidragon1/status/588433855184375808 and confiscated his devices.

Edit: I submitted this link not because the action wasn't justified (joking about hacking into the electronics on a plane obviously isn't OK) but rather as a reminder of who is listening and what can happen.
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He means coupled using a magnetic field (like a transformer) rather than using an electric field (like a transmitter).

They're related, to make things more complicated, see Maxwell.

http://galileoandeinstein.physics.virginia.edu/more_stuff/Ma...
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Don't underestimate this kid. He probably has a great sense of humor, too.
I think there is a bug. Every answer starting with a word that starts with the characters N and O is considered a "no".
The 543 digit number encodes log(10^543, 2)~=1803.8 bits, and the image is 17x106=1802 bits. It's going to be hard to fit it in there.
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I'm not certain I understand how their use of _ is any different from Lo-dash or Underscore's use of the variable. Just because they're not first to the party doesn't mean they can't hop on the established semantics.

Their use of _ actually made it easier for me to follow their examples.
I'd hope that they would be current limited at a minimum, I can't see how IKEA would market something with such an easily remedied fatal flaw in it.
I don't know if you're aware or not, but the charging location on the Nexus 4 is a little off-center, so if you centered it, that might be causing issues.

> Nexus 4: One inch (25mm) below the center of the phone

https://support.google.com/nexus/answer/6073618?hl=en
Actually, that's a positive thought: deliberate usage of inductive coupling at very close range wasn't a problem to the rest of the device, to the point of such charging being included in the device.

The prime concern is that oscillating fields could interfere with the low-voltage low-current stimulus leads, inducing convulsions or worse. Secondary concern is overloading & frying the device.

I knew there was something I was going to ask my cardio doc a few days ago...we discussed potential problems with electric cars instead (user's manual is filled with "Warning! Pacemaker users stay away so we don't have to get this car medically certified!"-type notices).
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diminoten, you started by comparing one of @balls2you questions to a plan/plot/conspiracy. I commented saying that just because it's something you think that no government would ever do, doesn't means that they don't do it. I compared it to the NSA leaks, because until Snowden, everyone that talked about NSA (and other agencies) controlling the internet was called crazy. Now we now that those guys weren't that crazy.

I'm not saying that the US (or other country) government did change some code on some repo on Github, what I'm saying is: if they want, they can do it legally or illegally. Do you understand my comment now?
> http://goo.gl/vFf8oN

goes to: http://web.stanford.edu/~cdel/2014.asplos.quasar.pdf

It's my understanding that URL shorteners are frowned upon in HN posts or comments.
Turns out most words in many languages that begin with 'N' mean something negatory. A few exceptions, like 'nice'.
That whole thread is really interesting. Lot's of amazing code bases to read.
It seems related to Dunning-Kruger

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning%E2%80%93Kruger_effect
I think that it's pretty reasonable for a similar library to use the same character if the syntax is similar. As an example, the Domtastic library copies the jQuery syntax literally, allowing an easy transition for new users.

It also makes users aware that the library is likely to cover aspects of the other, so they should carefully consider if they really want to include the new one.
It's a garbled version of a latin exorcism: "Inimicus animo"

http://www.phrases.org.uk/bulletin_board/18/messages/777.htm...
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Paul, I already emailed you but I'm responding here because I have a feeling your response will be useful to other people interested in helping: could you give some direction for people like me who know Python 2 and/or 3 and want to help, but don't know the first thing about the structure of Debian packages or how they are developed?

For example: I'm looking at ./main/f/flask-wtf/flask-wtf_0.10.2-1.json and I'm not even sure what I'm looking at. The contents of that file are:

{"has_python3_module": false, "canidate": true, "trove_python3": true, "has_python2_module": true}

What's all that mean?

On my machine `apt-cache search flask-wtf` finds a package called `python-flaskext-wtf`. Digging deeper with `apt-cache showpkg` I find the homepage http://packages.python.org/Flask-WTF/, which in turn gets me to the code https://github.com/lepture/flask-wtf. I haven't updated the code to Python 3, but let's assume for a second that I have: now what? How do I tie this all together? Do I just send you a patch for this code? Is this even the right code?

If you point me in the right direction I'll be happy to write up a tutorial to help other folks contribute.

And as a side note: I really like Hy.
That was actually my point. There's no need for Android development to cover that ground - it can just start where we are now, with cool apps that can just be ported over. Once the Android audio latency issue is addressed.

App developers LOVE to port, its another sale with small effort.
What I'd actually likes as a feature is an output telling me WHEN to start my trip based on the lowest travel time due to traffic. Would be wonderful to have a histogram by hour for journey times based on traffic prediction.
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In 1962, Shirley founded, with a capital of £6, the software company F.I. Group (Freelance Programmers), (later Xansa, since acquired by Steria and now part of the Sogat Group). She was concerned with creating work opportunities for women with dependants, and predominantly employed women, with only 3 out of 300-odd programmers being male, until the Sex Discrimination Act 1975 made that practice illegal. She adopted the name "Steve" to help her in the male-dominated business world. Her team's projects included programming Concorde's black box flight recorder
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There's a mention of smaller planes being more efficient, without details. I'm surprised at that: I thought bigger planes were more efficient (less fuel and other costs per passenger). Is that not the case? If not, why not?
Please do so. It's an amazing non-profit supporting the legacy and history of the internet
surprised they don't have any public members on their github org
Unfortunately we receive such a high volume of applications that we aren't able to respond to every one. A member of our team will reach out if there is a fit with one of our available roles.

Thanks,
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Elon Musk actually joked/hinted (in a tweet) that they were making modifications to the barge similar to the flying SHIELD helicarrier.
AFAIK M-Pesa transactions are denominated in national currency and thus M-Pesa is not itself a currency.
What Facebook looked like in 2004...
http://web.archive.org/web/20040212031928/http://www.theface...

(Don't forget it started as 'thefacebook.com')
I actually see this ("could of" and "would of") more in native speakers than non-native speakers actually. I have also seen it used many times in writing so it's not just a "heard it wrong" issue.

Here in the South (US), it's disturbingly common.
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As I recall its a 2-engine vs 4-engine situation. The big planes that need 4 engines have extra overhead and inefficiency.

That's one of the reasons that the 777 is so popular, close to the size of a jumbo and only two engines.
Here's a well known director praising another well known director for his skill in laying out a movie:

http://extension765.com/sdr/18-raiders
Picking an absurd number doesn't invalidate the original argument.
What are those significant regards?

While I also like the polished UX, I'd argue that the only real value that slack adds on top of IRC is the UI/X and integrated history - the latter being something that IRC just plain lacks.
For those of you located in Switzerland; you can "hitch" a ride at http://an2.ch – though you must become a club member or ride as a guest of another member (This is required by swiss law for non-commercial flights). Another possibility is to show up at airshows; where tours may be, and are given to the visitors for a modest fee.

It's quite an impressive experience, especially while starting, when the audio of the power plant's huge displacement is felt by your stomach.
Its exists, and has something to do with who 'recognizes' a country's claim to exist. There's a cool case in Australia where a guy with a large ranch wrote a letter to the territorial governor, styling himself as the leader of his fictitious nation. The governor responded in kind, maybe tongue in cheek, but using the same title. That meant, as Queen's representative, that the Queen had recognized him. Now he has a post office, currency, stamps etc, and Australia has to deal with him on that basis.
I saw an F-22 fly backwards, I'm sure it was much more impressive!
Show me where that is a real rule.
I recall reading something about WWI fighter pilots who could actually fly backwards (as opposed to "forwards into a headwind"). Apparently, with the right plane and a really really good pilot, it was possible to throw it into something like a bootlegger turn, spinning 180 degrees around the Z-axis and cruising backwards for a second or two to fire on an unsuspecting pursuer, before quickly slewing back around to resume normal flight. IIRC, Manfred von Richthofen, the Red Baron, was known for the maneuver.
For some reason, I'm not able to replicate the bug you caught. On my side, ACUMAN answers that question correctly.
Do you know how to deal with interruptions when coding in Java?
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Major things that would be useful to port for Debian's sake, because they're system utilities: supervisor, Fabric, carbon

Major things that would be useful to port because Python projects depend on them: Twisted, thrift, protobuf

Don't bother with these because replacements already exist: MySQL-python, oauth2
It also does not mean "feature X, taken (in some cases almost cloned) from somewhere else, is now an 'Apple innovation'."

I like all of those features (though AirPlay still is a struggle with HD, though to be expected; and handoff for voice is still very buggy). And others are genuine innovations or things that Apple has polished. But to point to, for an egregious example, "Look, Notifications, how innovative that is" is also disingenuous.
Interesting infographic on the history of Etsys history to IPO. Including details about their fundraising and what VC's participated in each round.
>granted, those were not official SpaceX statements

From the Elon Musk AMA:

Q: How will you secure the first stage of the Falcon 9 to the barge when it lands? Gravity or some mechanism?

A: Mostly gravity. The center of gravity is pretty low for the booster, as all the engines and residual propellant is at the bottom. We are going to weld steel shoes over the landing feet as a precautionary measure

http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/2rgsan/i_am_elon_musk_...
Python2 is a ticking time bomb - it's officialy EOL'ed in 2020, all new development is happening on 3.x

It's like the jump between Ruby 1.8 and 2.0 - there is no reason to be doing anything in 1.8 in 2015.
Didn't Google use some sort of auction at their IPO? They're the only company I've heard doing something like that.
It also compensates the fact that we have a very near field of high-res vision, that is constantly pointed at a different direction, by still keeping the big picture in mind.
It feels suspiciously like there's some life lesson to be had here. Something about tacking to the winds of fate or similar blather.
Too bad it's on Meteor, it's going to be a pain to keep this running.

Good luck!
It is amazing that both Boeing and Airbus are in a constant state of teetering on collapse.
This reminded me of this http://hnalerts.com/. I think it still works. Mind you it's been a long time since I've submitted anything that made it to the front page. ;)
Duplicate of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9389737
You forgot thunderbolt, mini-display port, hdmi, micro-dvi, dvi, adc (their own spin on dvi), the two different flavors of magsafe, multiple flavors of firewire, usb-a, and now usb-c.

They did skip DisplayPort though.
I don't like all that verbosity in short debug text at all, no matter which syntax is used. I would have done, e.g.:

print 'result:', long_var_name

I do like your idea of a custom formatter though, perhaps it could be installed as a formatter into the logger beforehand, getting the slightly improved syntax without frequent object creation.
Interesting seeing some of these "unicorn" companies quickly raising massive rounds of funding due to the relative ease of raising large rounds of private capital over the past 12-18 months.

There is definitely a trend for these companies, Quora, Snapchat, etc to raise large private rounds to avoid the stress and uncertainty of IPOs.
> True. They probably should have used some Lumias and Android phones since there are plenty of those that look sufficiently glamorous for these photo shoots and won't leave observant technical audiences feeling misled.

You obviously didn't even open the link - the very first thing you see on page 1 is a Samsung (Galaxy S4, I think?).
But ASIC is 100x better than FPGA for energy per computation. Know of any mobile devices that have FPGAs on them now?
Roman legionaries also disliked being being forced to eat barley and meat, but in lieu of wheat.

A lot of it must be to do with taste and quality, but also a desire to not eat like a poor person or barbarian.
...or releasing a case with inductive charging built in, like they're doing for the other iPhones?
> Interestingly, it doesn't even trade maximum speed for being unstallable.

Depends on how you interpret it. The bi-plane design does impose quite a drag at higher speeds. There has been research into making the design faster, so far, that meant getting rid of the lower wings.

On the other hand, the designer never intended her to go fast.
That's a bit of a stretch. You wouldn't get better results than using Google's APIs, if anything you introduced another failure point and authentication credentials that you need to track and update regularly.
Nice writeup - I just saved the PDF in my keep for ever PDF repo.

When I contracted at Google at 2013 I loved their infrastructure. For my task I had to run huge Borg jobs and the job submission, monitoring and logging system were very easy to use. I really liked the summary of hardware failures that occurred - hardware really is not very reliable when running at scale.

After not using AppEngine for a few years I have started using it recently for two personal projects. Using AppEngine's logging and scaling features is a tiny bit like using Google's internal infrastructure - makes me a little nostalgic.
The thing that springs immediately to my mind for me is the anti-vaccination movement. I really do think it'll be looked back on in a century as a monumentally stupid backlash based on poor 'science' and scaremongering.

I think a lot of what is taken as gospel in the field of nutrition will probably be looked back on as barmy or the result of ignorance. The low-fat thing already seems to be going that way.
I like Teresa Teng's music a lot, but I'm not sure the lyrics are uniquely poetic. And most of her songs also have Japanese versions, despite the two languages having little in common besides a lot of lexical borrowings.
If you'd rather not have to code to make this happen: https://zapier.com/zapbook/zaps/675/post-message-slack-when-...

(works for comment mentions, too)
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Very interested as I use Async.js in virtually all of my node projects. I'm liking the idea of a 'toolkit' approach more than Async (which just feel like a monolithic lib), will definitely be trying it out soon.
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That's one hell of a post. Thanks for sharing it.
But the point of FPGAs is to be cost effective. They are a substitute for custom PCB designs with RT components and somewhat low production numbers (500~5.000 devices, depends on the FPGA etc).

Either you build something big enough that it doesn't make sense to make a PCB + components, and mass produce them on a medium level using FPGAs, or you aren't using FPGAs for what they are. It's fine if you are learning and toying with them, we like to hack on things, but you are never going to use them that way in a job, in production.
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Or how about way back when it was still called theefacebook

http://web.archive.org/web/20040902031403/http://thefacebook...