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Maybe MS desktop OS division was sort of douche, or maybe desktop MS office is not all that innovative.

OTOH, MS Research was always very cool (and they started contributing to e.g. OpenBSD many years ago), OS kernel has always been much better than a glance over win32 API shows you, and Office365 is definitely world-class.

I suspect that the engineering culture in MS has always been rather good (with engineers like you and me, and many of them a good deal better); the radical transformation is probably mostly within the top management.
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Looks great!

One question - can regular apps use the digital crown? I was wondering why you chose + and - buttons to set an entry duration rather than spinning the dial. Or am I misreading the screenshots?
Star Citizen is being manned by Chris Roberts, who _was_ the rockstar developer behind Wing Commander.

All the 90s kids have grown up and have money now. They want another Chris Roberts realistic space sim.
A lot of open source developers go to great lengths to avoid admitting that anything competes with anything else. I don't know if it's just conflict avoidance, rationalizing failure, or what.
The reason why the author has a hard time finding a specific diagnosis is because her "maladaptive daydreams" are a symptom, not a disease. Her real problem is an inability or unwillingness to engage with reality, which is a component of any number of personality disorders.

Really, this inclusion of ridiculously overspecified symptoms and diseases-du-jour in the DSM has got to stop. It makes a mockery of what little credibility psychology has left.
How about organizing an effort to collect entries like the ones in Untranslatables, for endangered languages? This could be done as a CC-licensed dictionary with source on github. A markdown template would be useful, and a way to collect all submissions into a nicely typeset PDF.

http://www.amazon.com/Dictionary-Untranslatables-Philosophic...
I use mine almost exclusively for reading. I don't want an e reader because they don't have color and also because as far as I know you can't read pdf's on them
I guess there was no easy alternative, but I kinda hate that we had to crash a junked satellite onto a planet.
> What does Mercurial have over Git today?

Aside from what others have mentioned, the biggest thing for me personally is hg share, i.e. the ability to have two or more independent checkouts of the same repository. Git does not really support this. Your options are (1) git-new-workdir, which is not safe and can lose data and (2) doing a complete clone, which is cumbersome, because you can't directly diff/merge against branches in the other repository, but have to push/fetch first.

Disclaimer: I'm one of the strange people who (by preference) still uses Bazaar over Git and Mercurial whenever possible, so that may skew my preferences.
Ask HN: Building a property portal in Cake PHP?
Does anyone really use Cake PHP anymore for large websites such as property portals?

Would you suggest another language?
This is awesome. I've always wanted a massive dymaxion project and never thought of going about it this way.

Now I need to figure out how to convert open-street-map tiles into a dymaxion projection, which I can then print and mount on triangular boards.

http://www.learnwebmapping.com/2012/01/dymaxion-web-mapping/

http://indiemaps.com/blog/2011/04/dymaxion-projection-in-ope...

http://www.gislounge.com/dymaxion-map-projection/
It stops you from forgetting to do that. Especially for small, quick things like spell-fix PRs to random github projects it has happened to me that I forgot to set the right user before making and publishing commits.
> The PATRIOT Act [...] is purposefully misnomed in an attempt to hide what the bills does and to dissuade voting against it

When discussing the manipulative nature of the naming of the act in question, its perhaps useful to get the name right: it's not just the PATRIOT Act, its the USA PATRIOT Act, and USA PATRIOT isn't the full name, its an acronym for "Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism".
Haha I thought we were talking about beer. Presumably "swallow" is not a homonym in Slovak or Greek.
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I hope so. They would have and some code/features left over from a decade ago when you could write "java" code in Visual Studio as VisualJ. Conceivable the interfaces for hooking the debugger, the syntax highlighting, and all that jazz that VS already has to support could be (re)extended to support the JVM and JRE once again
Yeah, not sure about this either. What's exactly the point in having that Github UI in VS ?

A IDE is for writing code not integrating all kind of crap into it......
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That's exactly what I immediately thought when I started watching the video.

May be it isn't chrome dev tools dependent? Or it has some CSS (lol), I don't know...
In short, the knuckle popping sound is more akin to quickly pulling your boot out of sucking mud--with the ensuing "schlorp" sound--than pricking a balloon with a pin and its more acoustically similar "pop". When joints pull apart, the joint fluid is viscous enough that gases cannot immediately rush in to fill the gap. That creates a pressure differential, and when the fluid finally gives way, the rapid formation of a gas bubble makes an audible popping or cracking noise.
I grew up with Lego. I am getting the rush!
Why not ... Just short tech stocks? No need for all this put option, inverse ETF, etc. nonsense. Pick a few tech stocks you think represent the sector and go short em.
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It doesn't have to be a simple hash either. You could have the author/release engineer sign it and then use the signature instead. This somewhat mitigates simple hash collisions
Not really, sorry. I had forgotten that the first letter is compared case sensitively as I remembered from Nimrod it was all insensitive. But I still think for nearly all cases in real world code you can instead of using nimgrep be equally served by a case insensitive search on (nimidentifier|nim_identifier) even if it's technically possible to have other variants or a mismatch, which you can grep out as a second step anyway, with the capital N.
It seems that the JS community keeps butchering the word "isomorphic". Now, no one has a patent on words, nor should they. But put the word "isomorphic" near to <programming language name> and confusion might arise fast.
I'm not a cryptographer, so I don't know the details on how signatures work, but this problem is already solved. It doesn't matter whether you have to have to establish a sidechannel for the signature -- it should still pay off for larger downloads.
Great project and lots of followup info in the thread - thanks!
Well yes, if you wade into an internet-wide flamewar, you will be flamed.
There a PBS documentary on deciphering the glyphs of the lost Mayan language, which has been so valuable to the history of the Mayan people that they began teaching the lost language in schools: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H5ppfC6y-5s

There's also a corresponding book, Breaking the Maya Code, http://www.amazon.com/Breaking-Maya-Code-Third-Michael/dp/05...
> The $130 million in revenue for 2014 is based on the combined net revenue from Lyft Classic and gross revenue from Lyft Line during the month of December, which implies $10.8 million in revenue during that month.

What is this sentence supposed to mean?
That's an even better idea, I like it!
Interesting point. It makes sense to use stdio.h in applications where size is the priority.
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A suborbital trajectory is an ellipse that intersects the ground, and it will do so twice within less than half the world's circumference. If you can make it halfway around the world, you're orbital.

New York to Tokyo is nearly half that circumference, so the energy required is nearly that of orbit.
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You know, there's a lot of insight here in this comment, and I think a lot of the moves made by Microsoft WRT open source in the last few months is in direct response to this (deserved) attitude.
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Totally agree. Mercurial really is the product that deserves the spot that Git has claimed in terms of being the defacto DVCS. It's generally easier to use, well supported, and more intuitive. The good thing is that there is still a healthy competition out there to push ease of use and features forward. I think promoting Mercurial to help it gain market share is important. You don't have to suffer through Git!
It may amuse, or bemuse, the authors that sticking the tongue out got an 11 year old tagged as 64, with a bonus sex change thrown in.

The other, accidentally studious looking, 11 year old kid in the same photo was spot on.
I am in a similar situation. My wife and I have stopped using full size iPad 3 after buying an iPhone 6+. It is way easier to read stuff on the phone and do everything else. Also more and more websites are becoming mobile friendly, obviating the need for a large format screen to do stuff.
We chose not to build an Apple Watch app prior to its launch precisely because it difficult to do good design and engineering for a device that you don't have and have never used:

http://blog.anylistapp.com/2015/04/why-anylist-is-not-availa...

See also:

http://www.macrumors.com/2015/04/29/qantas-customers-discove...

'Qantas's predicament serves as a sort of warning for developing an app for the Watch before actually having the device in hands to test. Qantas's lead app designer, Gabriel Santos, echoed a similar sentiment of difficulty in developing the app, describing the entire ordeal of building and creating the app without the Watch "a scary process."

"We initially locked in a concept but when trying it on the actual device, it didn't work as well as I thought it would," he said.'
It was not. I couldn't find the correct compiler flag.
Not sure where you get the idea that anecdotes count as "technical arguments", but let's stay with the Netflix example: According to another comment in this thread, Netflix measured severe performance drops with SSL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9465553
I want to see more and more countries adopt a similar measure publicly, because as more countries pass such laws, the more it bluntly highlights that the "Land of the Free" can only live up to that maxim if it too passes laws canceling mass surveillance of its citizens.
> It's not up to me to decide, nor does my income-level have anything to do with the validity of my arguments. You simply have to answer "is this person better off with this thing X".

By your logic of: better off == "helping the needy" == Saving a few $bucks

General Mills cereal coupons are "helping the needy". That's seriously complete bullshit.

If you are going to use strong terms like "helping the needy" I would expect e.g. improved quality of life or another reasonable indicator backed by a well presented position and/or statistics.

> my income-level

I very much doubt any person living on minimum wage would say "Yes, my quality of life would be improved by a budgeting app for my IPhone". But if you had lived on minimum wage at some-point and honestly thought so, I would have considered it relevant.
Well said. I think I learned basic programming and general computer knowledge thanks in part to King's Quest by Sierra.
For example: http://blog.codinghorror.com/the-case-for-case-insensitivity...
Pardon the squigglevision but I think there could be something about the H and I relation you're not seeing http://imgur.com/K4aeVVd
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Current theory is that cavitation damage is caused by low pressure bubbles imploding in a high-pressure medium.

The pop in your joint is coming from the shockwave of bubble formation and expansion. That energy is diffused around the surface of the bubble. The shockwave of an imploding bubble is focused on a much smaller area. It's like the difference between trying to burn ants in sunlight using a concave versus a convex lens.
> Languages were invented as means of communication, so if all languages disappear except one it'll be tremendous boost to humanity.

It isn't at all obvious that it would be a straight-up boon. It would help some things, hurt others. And in a few generations, we would have dialects and languages again. It's just how brains and (by extension) communities work.
Checksums can be simply listed on TLS-enabled websites, or in PGPed emails, or whatever. They don't need to be on CDNs, which in many cases would be indicated for software distribution. The other thing to keep in mind is that a checksum can certify the entire distribution process, from a packager's personal machine all the way to your hard drive. TLS only proves that no one eavesdropped on the connection between your client and whatever machine claims to be the CDN, which for software distribution is pointless and unhelpful.
Cool!

Forgive me, but what is the advantage of buying Github enterprise and then having it hosted in Azure? I was under the impression that most enterprise customers were interested in self hosting.
As I think a lot of the people who tend to respond to these kinds of things are people who take up pitchforks over changelogs, and everyone else is like "engh, changelogs: boring conversation", I feel like it might be my duty to get over my initial reaction of "engh" and explicitly say "no". (I also happen to have a few minutes to kill as I need to wake myself up more while I'm waiting for someone else to finish something so we can go get lunch.)

I use changelogs for libraries and tools, but I certainly don't use them to decide whether or not to upgrade something... the things that are most important are often the one line fixes that no one really ran into or characterized well but when someone came across them was like "wow, I can't imagine how this ever worked before". I will decide whether or not to upgrade based on tests: if it doesn't work, then I don't upgrade; if it works, then I upgrade.

For apps, or minor little things, the idea that people care about changelogs is just strange to me: people use websites constantly that just kind of change in minor ways and the world doesn't end. The Facebook app on my phone automatically updates, and I know they send a new build of whatever they have to Apple every week whether they have major new stuff or not. Their changelog is forever essentially "we push new stuff every week, hopefully it will make you happy".

And, strangely to me, because it is an app and not a website, some people seem upset at this and want a better changelog. It seriously has made me prefer making websites and server-side components to client-side stuff, as people never ask me to do the extra useless-for-most-normal-users work of maintaining a changelog if I make a website, yet a tiny extremely-vocal set of people occasionally complain about changelogs if you make the mistake of writing software they install.
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> A IDE is for writing code not integrating all kind of crap into it......

The "I" in IDE stands for integrated
If you know php use it. Cake has generally fallen out of favor as a framework though things can be cyclical.

Laravel, symfony and zend remain the full featured frameworks that seem to have the most traffic.
This is absolutely not my area of expertise, but if I had to guess:

* Spend a fairly fixed amount of money developing the app and related infrastructure
* Keep a slush fund for covering loans
* Potential customer provides their bank account info, run it through a risk analysis program
* Have a human approve or deny the customer based on that program's results
* If approved, give them some coaching & onboarding training
* Largely ignore the customer unless they go in arrears, make $12/month for your SaaS offering

Note that monthly cost isn't much different from something you'd pay for a Shopify store, say. And they have very high touch onboarding in some cases.
This will sound weird, but... Have you ever stabbed a big piece of meat with a thick knife? And you know the sort of sucking sound it makes when you extract your knife from the meat? This is similar to what's happening inside your knuckles. The sudden in-rushing of gas into the space between your knuckles.
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The thing about Twitter that doesn't seem to get discussed that often is that it's a heavily unbalanced platform between content producers (tweeters) and consumers (readers), and there seems to be a perception problem with how it's supposed to be used.

The people I most often see talking about how amazing Twitter is are those that get to reap the benefits of having a large following -- sure, if you have 10,000 followers and you can just pop on and write "Hey Twitter - any suggestions on a new ...?" and you get flooded with responses, of course you're going to think the community is amazing.

Now, as a _consumer_, Twitter can also be amazing -- if you curate who you follow, and understand that you're basically there to read and consume.

But then these folks see that "tweet" button, and they dip in to being a producer, and they're effectively screaming into a crowded room. "Hey, nobody's paying attention to me - this Twitter thing sucks" and then they shrug and walk away.

So Twitter's biggest problem, it seems, is that Twitter is actually different things to different people, and it needs to better differentiate what its purpose is so expectations are set properly.
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Blackthorn is spot on. It's not enough to just "upvote" it.
If you do it once or twice then no big deal, but if you do it repeatedly, or a bunch of fingers one right after the other then it's rude.
Mapping human knowledge – analogic approach to make sense of reality (UX and UI)
Hello!
Feedback time!

Please see below a seminal project I've been working at.
I'd like to receive your feedback about:
- applicability in markets (in this case, education + reference)
- UI / UX and the type of domains you'd like to explore
- discuss about AI , machine learning and models adopted in neuroscience to mine semantic-trees for knowledge prediction.

This first thread (1/3) is about feedback UX/UI tailor to knowledge domains.

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Atlas of Human knowledge
http://www.xdiscovery.com/en/atlas

A seminal project to use mindmaps of public knowledge to let anyone make sense of every topic, instantly.
The topology of mindmaps zips information about a subject, and allows manyfold UI to make sense of it.

###

Maps shown on the web page, are created with:
http://learn.xdiscovery.com/

LearnDiscovery - mindmap of Wikipedia is a mobile tool I designed to access the mindmap computed from Wikipedia dump and save visual references.

Recommendations have been benchmarked VS Google's Knowledge graph:
respect to Google approach, you get correlations for all topics, even the least popular (e.g. "American Indian Wars", "Dna", "Machine Learning" + you can traverse the whole domain...)

I see it as a milestone in education and reference: also novices can visually make sense of what smtg is about.

###

1. Which domains do you feel useful to apply knowledge discovery ?
[e.g. public knowledge, scientific articles, prior art, which verticals, internet of things ...]

2. Would you play around with the Atlas and send your feedback on the use you would like to make of it?
This isn't a squabble about "naming" so much as an observation at intentional deception for the purposes of dodging debate... there isn't any real progress outlined in the bill being discussed anyway, it's just another cover for fewer freedoms and more totalitarianism.
I have 18 servers running for this game at the moment. If you want to write me a check to pay for all of them, I'll give you my address.
Plenty of flight-tracking sites let you look up scheduled flights on any route and see how many flights and what type of aircraft.
You're right that Blue Origin is older than SpaceX, as it was founded in 2000 vs 2002 for SpaceX

However, SpaceX is using off the shelf russian engine designs, if I recall correctly (possibly off the shelf engines in the early days?[1]) Blue Origin, on the other hand, seems to be developing its engines from scratch.

SpaceX's strategy certainly should have gotten it to market faster, and has. Blue Origin's in theory should give it a technology lead (engines designed now rather than 50+ years ago.)

It appears that in the 2020s we'll see when both companies (I believe) start launching heavy lift vehicles. SpaceX will have more launches under its belt then, but maybe Blue Origin will have caught up?

[1] I remember reading a blog post that the Merlin engine was based on a russian design, but I can't seem to find evidence of that now. Maybe I'm mistaken.
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Some people hate it, so you might want to be aware of that.

Some people find it distracting, like tapping a pen, so you might want to be aware of that too.
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Um, all I see is a bunch of binaries, two header files and a sample app. Just header files do not qualify as an open source project.
Everything can be looked at as a mere tool. To other people, it's more than that - an identity, a culture, a history, self-expression.

It might have felt like a drag if I was forced to learn to play and listen to jazz, like in music classes. But I don't try to project my personal feelings of how playing and learning jazz feels like work and drudgery onto actual jazz musicians. Now imagine if a jazz musician woke up one day and there were no one left to jam with - just curmudgeons like myself who don't appreciate jazz. Man, what a drag.
America had the most conservative, violent revolution I can think of. The rule of law at the colony level was never really challenged. Each colonial government, which did the day to day governing, stayed in power.

Even the Declaration of Independence occurred via a vote of the government. And it was written as an indictment against the King. It made legal arguments. He was violating their rights as English subjects.

Americans have a very strong respect for the rule of law. The Supreme Court is unelected, has no power, no money, no army, no police force or agents to carry out it's will. Yet it the absolute final word and Americans follow it.

The constitution isn't an example of the limitation of the power of law, it's the greatest example of the extreme power the law has in America. The rule of law is so strong that the constitution (a law) can override the will of the President, the congress and the people.
They took the $10.8m in December 2013 revenue and multiplied by 12 to get the $130m number.
I'm pretty sure "integrating all kind of crap into it" is the distinction between an integrated development environment and other environments for writing code, like a simple programmer's editor (though the line is somewhat fuzzy, and programmer's editors also tend to integrate all kind of stuff, and provide extension points to integrate more.)
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Rockets are phallic, but this one is exceptionally so. The proportions are very similar to a human penis. The payload on top flares out like the glans of the penis.

I saw a video of it being lifted from a horizontal to a vertical position and it looked like a penis getting erect [1].

I think if a sex toy was made out of this design, it would be more agreeable to its users than one modeled after the Saturn V or a Falcon.

[1] http://gfycat.com/GorgeousScentedChinchilla