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What I love about posts like this one is that they usually result in beautiful comment threads full of nostalgia and memories. And probably a couple of renewed game subscriptions, too. :)

I had a plenty of exciting real life experiences after I quit WoW back in 2010, but somehow I still look back at my in-game experience with an incredible warm and fuzzy feeling somewhere inside of me.
Friends are overrated. If you worked that much on those projects, you must have felt like this was more interesting to you than going out. And honestly, if you're an introvert, going out sucks, working alone is much more interesting. Also, have you heard about Julius Caesar who was crying at 30 because he hadn't done what Alexander the Great had done at that age? You still have room to grow. I can't be of help as far as business is concerned because I've failed a lot too. All I know is that my most successful project is the simplest in terms of technology, but that there's an evergreen flow of people looking for what I offer.
Starbucks stores open Saturday after suffering sales outage
There's just something grim about that /favourite star/ icon used by USGS to indicate the quake's epicentre on the map.
Cmdr Taco's take on the iPhone at /. comes to mind.
> The X201 also had a FULL keyboard. They used every cm of the laptop to fit all the keys in.

And it's not even crammed in, the X201 keyboard is identical in size and layout to the T400 keyboard.
Facebook had photos, status updates and sharing links long before the app store launched. Music was the only thing keeping MySpace afloat for a long time and eventually even that wasn't enough.
This is a very basic product, don't get me wrong, basic is a good thing.

Some feedback:
Registration is very nice, simple steps. However, log in with Gmail/Facebook/Twitter might be a nice option in the future too.

How do you handle links? I didn't check this since I'm on mobile but nofollow would be a good idea to prevent spammers. Maybe even add Google's recaptcha to prevent spam bots for anonymous users/on registration?

For groups/companies, it might be nice if we can register a sub domain and allow others to post new discussions in there to keep it all grouped. But that would mean there'd have to be a moderation option (?).
Good for them.

In the UK, when Oculus goes down, no coffee (staff tend to be younger people and perhaps not confident to set up a tip jar and ring the money in later).

A lot of Starbucks and other coffee outlets are franchise operations over here so it isn't actually run by starbucks and the counter may not run all the services. I wanted to have a meeting in a franchised outlet once and foolishly assumed that it would be possible to just run a check. It wasn't, but the lady simply got a box, I put £40 in and she rang each person's order through and put the change back in the box.

Initiative. People need to be allowed to show it when the system goes down.
>>A method of initiating...

Can you really patent an idea?
The reality is that any public company that does not file a patent related to a major service launch is foolish. The most important purpose is crosslicensing as well as using it as a licensing hook for compliance, i.e. ensuring compatibility. Aggressive litigation is usually a question of corporate culture, but patents need to be defended to remain valuable for licensing agreements.
To really teach the relational model would take quite some more time. I would discuss database normalization (3NF/4NF/BCNF), query optimization, indexes, foreign key constraints and bridge set-theory with the relational model. Optional parts would be triggers and other kind of constraints.

To understand the query planner is tantamount to making good schema's and requires insight in the underlying data-structures (B-tree) and join methods.

Then, for the student to get used to this way of thinking, I'd have them implement a simple project, e.g. a hotel-booking system.
I read the comments first and I assumed you may be exaggerating a bit. Certainly it's fine to use a "*" on the map to distinguish from cities?

It could only be worse if they had chosen a smiley emoticon.
My (rough) first day with Apple Watch
So a average European house then.
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Your discussion has been hijacked by somebody posting /r/spacedicks type pictures.
Good god, why the hell did I open that link.
School let us off early after the earthquake in Assam. It was felt for a full minute.
That was a mistake. We've made it fully opt-in now.

Also here's the whole Twitter conversation: https://twitter.com/feathub/status/591715888782520320
Some software that uses anti-debug measures can also detect when it's being run inside a VM. Skype famously did that too (before Microsoft changed the protocol), emplying a whole host of reverse-engineering circumvention measures.
It's a puzzle - it's supposed to be tricky.

I don't really think it's especially obfuscated though. You just have to think about why people are saying what they say, which is a fairly useful thing to be able to do...
Legitimate request of course. That was a genuine mistake from our part, the service is opt-in only now. Here's the full Twitter conversation: https://twitter.com/feathub/status/591715888782520320
Quote from the Risks and Challenges section of the OA

"you do need to keep in mind that you are supporting a research project and not buying an off-the-shelf product"

Perhaps they just want to keep the amount of money involved small in case of encountering a show-stopper later on?

I take your point, and a sticker or something at $10 might encourage some coffee-jar type contributions.
Howww to find the right colors for your next project
>People are always going to be interested in cheaper products

Ironically this has been the constant anti-Apple motto since 2003, and it has been disproven time and again, with cheaper alternatives that would "kill" (the iBook, iPod, iPhone, iPad, Air, etc) failing in the market.

It's not that people don't like cheap, but it's not the be all end all, and it can't be used for certain markets that are driven by other needs (including vanity).
Bitcoin Script is Forth-like RPN, why does it need AST?
Do you mean there are plans to add more languages/DSLs to Bitcoin which with multiple compiler front-ends generating ASTs. which then translated to "machine opcodes"? Something similar to Ethereum?

Or maybe it's a solution for transaction scriptSig malleability? [1]

[1] https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Transaction_Malleability
Hi. Thanks. I suppose the who idea is to keep it simple but some new features will be added for private conversations, better link handling as you mentioned. Will definitely need to start thinking about handling spammers on anonymous comments. i had to turn off images for that very reason. I'll change it so that only logged in users can post images from now on.
This was a huge earthquake. Aftershocks are still continuing and have been said to continue for next 2 to 3 days although they will be in descending order. People are advised to stay alert and be out in open areas. People should also stockpile food, water, batteries. Also, please use your phone less (save charge for emergency), and unclog the network for people trying to reach their loved ones.

I'm from Nepal (not living there anymore but have tons of family and friend back at home). Hoping everyone is safe, and asking people to NOT PANIC in any situation.

Some resources:
Google people finder - https://google.org/personfinder/2015-nepal-earthquake

Helpline numbers in nepal:
http://i.imgur.com/e0mRxgz.jpg

Helpline number in India:

+91 11 2301 2113

+91 11 2301 4104

+91 11 2301 7905
What do you do on LinkedIn?
Ask HN: What do I do with those employers who stopped replying to me?
So I'm looking for a job and I'm starting to gather quite a few email addresses of people who've been dicks to me…

One has interviewed me a few months ago and told me things like "great feeling, I feel you're motivated, hit me up in a few months and we'll hire you". I wrote to him as expected, never got an answer. I called a few weeks ago, he said he'd call me by the end of the week. I called once again after that, his secretary told me he'd call back. Nothing ever since.

Another has interviewed me on the phone for thirty minutes and told me his company was interested in hiring me but I had to do a test project first. So I woke up one Saturday (I was working full time at that point) and spent a day working on said project. I sent it and was told it would take two weeks to get a reply since the guy who was to review my project was on vacation. Three weeks later, I ask for some news. No reply. Two months later, I ping back: no reply.

Another is a friend's acquaintance. He's a freelance entrepreneur. We ate pizza and discussed about working together a few months ago. He basically told me "yeah, call me when you're free and I'll introduce you to the tech I'm using". I write to him and he says "right now I'm working on this and that, what about you? When do you want to come?". I tell him and get no reply.

(I have more examples in mind but have to stop here because of the length limit.)

For a few months I didn't care much, but I'm slowly starting to understand that most companies are just like that, rude and unrespectful. If you don't like me, why do you make me believe that you're willing to hire? And what does it cost you to tell me 'no'? You're not busy to the point where you can't do this. So yeah, what do I do with those addresses? Spam lists? Fake outstanding applications where the fake candidate never replies to them?
What is your opinion on gender bias on Kotaku?
That's because HTTPS Everywhere doesn't blindly attempt HTTPS connections, it redirects based on a massive set of rules. That's also how it accounts for more complex changes than just the protocol portion of the URL, like adding an encrypyted. or ssl. subdomain.

You can see all the rulesets here: https://gitweb.torproject.org/https-everywhere.git/tree/src/...
reddit live thread: https://www.reddit.com/live/usqod2db8ogh
I love the idea of private group/companies. Keeping track of many conversations is another big thing that needs to be tackled. So for instance a dashboard to keep track of discussions you're involved in and any notifications around a discussion.
Very nice. Anyone know how the graphics are drawn? I had a scan and didn't see it.
I'm typing this on an X230, with 16GiB RAM. I busted the screen recently and considered an X250... it's such a shame that "ultrabook" means "one DIMM slot" these days, i.e. they max out at 8GiB RAM - same as I was using in '2009 on my old X61s!

Luckily replacement screen parts are quite affordable these days. And before anyone complains, I do use all this memory, currently dom0 has 4GB free.
I don't think she was saying that hiring unemployed people is a poor choice, just that if you require a number of on site interviews, your hiring process requires so much of the candidate's time you are selecting out people who may not have that time available. Some employed folks may make the time, but others won't.

Note that the process she suggests (one phone screen, one on site and a decision) is good for unemployed applicants as well.

Quick hiring decisions are good for all parties involved, as long as they are thorough.
So a HR who successfully poached an employed coder, hired someone who is willing to drop work at the moment he gets a better offer.

The other HR stupidity is, that its much easier to get a raise, if you switch jobs often, then if you stay in a job long enough to be productive.

The result are projects broken by HR causing to much fluctuation.
I've also used the X1 Carbon and the X230. Both had many small issues (and a few big ones) that made them feel like alpha-quality prototypes. Even simple things like trackpad gestures and scrolling were borderline-unusable. Instead of scrolling proportionally to my finger movement, their trackpads just triggered a "scroll mouse wheel" event, moving up/down by 3 lines. Options like smooth scrolling did nothing but add an animation in the 3 line movement. It's ridiculous. An iBook from 2005 has better trackpad scrolling.

I'm surprised by the "no true ThinkPad" responses. How am I supposed to know which ThinkPads are real ones? Apparently the X220 is, but not the X230? The only differences seem to be some keyboard tweaks, the trackpad, and newer CPUs.
And most incumbent players seem to like the current state of affairs.

The whole situation is beginning to resemble feudal Europe class system. You cannot sell a car unless you belong to a specific fraternity. You cannot sell Android phones unless you pay licence fees to some company. The free market is shrinking because of various regulations written by lobbyists.

Unfortunately this seems to a trend for societies across the globe. The older society, the more walls higher class builds to protect their status.
If hypervisor is commodity, why is VMware still on top?
Today is Debian 8 release day
Only if you have never opened a dictionary or an actual textbook.

A textbook example of racism is: "These people are inferior/primitive/stupid/immoral because they are black" (from which the colloraries come, like: "Lets exploit these infrerior people for slave labor". Or "I don't want these inferior people in my restaurant.)

This case is, on the other hand: "Black people in the US don't have us much income (a fact), and are much fewer than white people (another fact). We should better optimize our film for the most common buyer, which would be white people".

This has nothing to do with racism, it's basic economics. In fact if blacks were the most affluent or populous group, the same companies would target THEM in a heartbeat.
I'm running Ubuntu 15.04 with GNOME Session Flashback: a sort of GNOME 2 for GTK3. It's Ubuntu how it used to be, but with the latest upstream features. I've been using it for about 2 months after I moved back from Arch. It's stable and fast, so everything I want from a desktop environment. However, as you point out, the UI is still quite big, even on mid-resolution displays (1600x900).
The aftershocks were felt in many parts of India. There have been casualties in Delhi.
From a user perspective, I find the statement that "Lean Clojure" works based off these charts a bit daring. Why?

a) Without having access to the numbers, (Skummet) startup is ~5 times as slow as the Java version. That is a noticeable difference. Plus, even Java apps sometimes tend to take a second or more to start up if they're reasonably complex.

b) The "Lean Clojure works" statement is derived from comparing _only_ the startup times. The fact that the task time is around two times Java's for Skummet is a big thing. Ignoring startup time, and without further data/tests, one could argue that Clojure Android apps run twice as slow as Java ones... that's a big no-go given the high amount of sparkly UI features of most modern apps. Or at least a no-go for having a Clojure-only stack?

(Skummet's probably in its early stages and I'd expect improvements but ... from those graph I'd argue 'Lean Clojure' does not work (yet?))
Instead of being mad, you should be glad for having dodged multiple bad employers/partners because sometimes having a bad employer/supervisor is poisonous to your work environment and will lead you to hate your work and burn you out.
I sent an email to your @me.com email address :-)
Why not just port Plan 9 to a Parallella board ?

They do plan to have SATA which isn't on any other Zynq dev board AFAIK, this will require some FPGA work as it isn't provided by the SoC.
> A HR who only poaches employed people, is doing a bad job, and hiding his laziness under an evil prejudice.

But the reverse is also true. HR managers that devise a recruitment process so arduous only the unemployed (and possibly then only the involuntary unemployed) will consider participating in it is doing a bad job. There are good unemployed candidates, but there are more good employed candidates, and most of the good unemployed candidates also have better options than your 6-8 interview process, which also screams of bureaucracy, indecisiveness and pedantry further down the line.
Some small businesses might not turn a profit per se but if the owner(s) get a descent salary each month that might make them happy, the aim is not always to optimize profits for shareholders or get venture capital...
It wasn't "great" but reddit used to be a nice place to stop by and find quality content on the front page.

These days on reddit, you will find on the front page:

reposts;

"dank may-mays";

pictures of someone's kids, relatives or pets;

celebrities who are peddling shit in exchange for the most generic answers on AMA;

advertisements disguised as normal posts (e.g., subreddits of movies, tv, music);

world news posted with a spin to stir outrage by government agencies hiding in military barracks of US and UK and "troll houses" in Petersburg;

and other junk that's posted to appeal to the lowest common denominator.

This is especially true with subreddits that are promoted to default status. It used to be that you could find refuge in other subreddits, but even now, as soon as word spreads of their existence, they too become saturated with the Facebook folk.
If you haven't made it big at 25, you can just as well kill yourself now, because as everybody in tech knows, your life is practically over.
Why continue to bother with those? What can you gain from it? It won't make the world a better place. Don't be bitter about people who treat you lika a "dick". They don't mean it. They just did not notice. We all have very limited attention to others. In the same time, you probably have been a dick to others without noticing it.

It will make the world a better place when you find a job where you are welcome and can work with people you click with. What is your skillset?
Assuming that is true, and while IANAL I read it that way too, it is baffling that someone in the patent office can read something like this and not feel compelled to laugh and toss it in the dustbin.

Replace 'network carrier' with 'fishmonger', 'device' with 'person', and 'network' with 'fish' and you can probably find prior art that predates recorded history.
The initial estimate of the magnitude certainly went down - the page now says 7.8.
I'm pretty sure that's Ubuntu's fault :)
> under the order of operations implied by e.g. the vector space axioms

What, exactly, about vector spaces implies an order of operations?
I would hesitate to describe Google as 'just like the others' until Google uses their patents offensively. Apple has a similar patent to this one and I presume Google got this one as a defence
Video technology is one of the few deep technology plays in mass market web - sheer number of protocols and standards, securing digital video, streaming video using non QOS means catering to each and every device and bandwidth, content personalisation, ad targeting all are problems of a magnitude bigger than the mundane ones you encounter on transactional/social web. Youtube has become the golden standard of video streaming - and without Google technology and money - this would not have been possible.
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Having a char encoding issue

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Anyone know what encoding this is, and why it only seems applicable to part of the text?
Why the downvote? I know I didn't answer his original question, but I was worried for the OP. If you think I gave bad advice, explain why.
Comment to the maintainer of that page: Don't put dark blue on black background. It's very hard to see and read.
That's a prior patent not prior art i.e. Apple hasn't used it in a product yet. Moreover Apple having a patent suggests Google applied for a patent for their own implementation to avoid getting sued by Apple. Apple has a history of litigation to stifle competition.
Also after a while MySpace got really laggy and spammy, which was frustrating!
The hard part is not the logic, it's actually figuring out that this is a logic puzzle that needs to be solved by deduction and not a bunch of nonsense with terrible grammar. To borrow your Ode To Joy example, it's like trying to learn to play the piece after the sheet music had been torn and tattered, burned and stained with coffee. Sure, the music is simple once you get past all of the garbage in your way.

The original version of the puzzle (in the Singapore Math Olympiad) presented the dates in a sparse table format. This little bit of symbolic communication makes it much clearer that the answerer is supposed to cross off the dates by a process of deduction, making the puzzle simple to solve.
> The patent appears to be about selecting a network carrier using a bidding process. The device can choose a network based on price and quality of service. What prior art is there for this?

It's a common-knowledge approach in general: Obtain a service based on price and quality. Modifying that to obtain service of type __ should not represent a novel patentable idea.

In a non-broken system these kind of patents would only apply to the specific selection technology/method and not to an obvious general concept. How broadly applicable it will be in practice? Who knows? I'd say since http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_Corp._v._CLS_Bank_Interna... it's more promising.
To be fair, Europe is packed with barely liveable spaces being rented/sold at exorbitant prices

Yes, I'm talking about the UK (and Ireland)
I'm having the same issue on Arch Linux, Chromium, Version 42.0.2311.90 (64-bit)
Oh, yes, absolutely.

To refine that statement a little– I don't mean that people won't want iPhones and Macbooks and Apple Watches. The latest Macbook looks so amazing, I totally want one!

What I mean is that if two products were IDENTICAL, people would want the cheaper version. The way Apple stays ahead is by ensuring that their products are always better in SOME way (even if it's "just aesthetics" or "just branding"– it translates to real value to the customer.)

This applies more obviously to commodities– say, equally good shaving razors, equally good refrigerators and so on. You're totally right that it's not the be-all-end-all.
And this is why I've been using Thinkpads for the past 17 years. After becoming competent with the Trackpoint, any other laptop input method seems frustratingly slow and prone to unnecessary movements. It is especially well suited for working with Vim and keyboard-heavy workflows where every second you spend with your fingers on the keyboard is a second of productivity.

You can pry the Trackpoint from, cold dead fingers. It's too bad that no other laptop vendor has adopted such a fine and well-designed input interface.
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Well, another clear argument that 'composing music' is far more complicated than sequencing notes.
It would be better to feed this tool with hooktheory's API containing common chord progressions...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9394176
"Favourite star" icon? Sorry but stars have been used as landmarks since forever.
Oh, fair enough. I think that's a function of large audiences– the larger an audience gets, the more it allows puns, jokes, etc to rise to the top– and the more incentive there is to be thoughtlessly controversial, and the more incentive there is for advertising and spam.

The challenge to maintain standards when an audience grows is really hard. There are some subreddits that try, but it seems like a universal problem (as far as I can tell.)
Thanks I'll take a look into that. Haven't really done a huge amount of cross browser work on this. Appreciate the help.
Links are not actually auto-linked at the moment for that reason. They just show up as plain text.
Here's an interesting article on the right way to measure turnover: http://www.ere.net/2003/10/06/the-right-way-to-measure-turno...

Tl;dr: provide context.
The right way to measure turnover