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by jontas 12y ago
It is explained in the article: > The effect of a passing star on the Oort Cloud is a function of the star's mass, speed and proximity. The worst case scenario for stirring up comets would be a slow-moving, massive star that c
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by jontas 12y ago
This also seems to affect PHP when using the formatting character 'o', which is PHP's version of the ISO-8601 year number. Using 'Y' instead is returning 2014. php > echo date('Y'); 2014
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by jontas 12y ago
From one of the articles linked in in the HN comments [0]: > The particles, known as the Xi_b'- and Xi_b -, were predicted to exist by the quark model but had never been seen before. A related particle, the Xi_b 0, was found by the
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by jontas 12y ago
I posted a comment on the original article with a fix for this, or just follow the directions in this gist: https://gist.github.com/anonymous/969e460958ba3268a226
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by jontas 12y ago
I'm sure you are correct, but thinking about it from the perspective of the host country, it seems like allowing this might actually be in their best interests. They get the income/sales/real estate/etc taxes from the n
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by jontas 12y ago
Never mind, working for me now--no idea what the problem was easier..
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by jontas 12y ago
This isn't working for me (just hangs on Loading..) using up to date Chrome on OSX. Anyone else having better luck?
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by jontas 12y ago
I don't doubt that this is true, I've just personally never noticed the difference. Maybe I need to try a side-by-side comparison.
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by jontas 12y ago
I don't understand how you can say that is what happens in practice when the article (and me, personally) is proof of the exact opposite. As I mentioned in a different comment, I am the developer working for the marketing team describ
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by jontas 12y ago
That isn't how it works at all. As per TFA, marketing interviews and hires their own talent, and there isn't any crossover between the engineering and marketing team staffing.
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by jontas 12y ago
I am the web developer who works for the marketing team described in the article. I don't really know where (or if) to draw the line between web developer and engineer, but in my career before taking this job I was the lead developer
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by jontas 12y ago
The time I attempted to explain bitcoin to my parents I ended up starting with explaining how public key crypto works (to the best of my ability) and wound up dealing with so many tangential questions we barely managed to touch on bitcoin.
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by jontas 12y ago
The company I work for (based in NYC) offers exactly this kind of career track. Individual contributors are comparable with management in every way (salary, seniority, title, etc) but are not forced into management in order to continue adva
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by jontas 12y ago
When I saw your username I figured it had to be a new account registered to post this comment. I was wrong, well done!
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by jontas 12y ago
I'm guessing it's this, but I didn't go too far back in the comment history so I may be wrong: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7430250
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by jontas 13y ago
I dont understand why this level of access (if it is accurately described in the article) would only be of use to American intelligence, and "would['t] interest other intelligence services -- except to pass it on to the Americans.
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by jontas 13y ago
From the main FAQ[1]: How do I submit Unreal Engine 4 changes back to Epic? GitHub is our channel through which the community can fork and modify Epic's code alongside our own engineering team. Source code changes you check in at GitHu
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by jontas 13y ago
The latter would require a cross domain ajax request, I'm sure it is just a regular form POST.
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by jontas 13y ago
Yea, that's how I did it personally, but I figured the URL bar required less explanation for non-technical people. But you're right, on HN that was probably unnecessary.
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by jontas 13y ago
To view the redacted content directly on the Scribd original, just put this in your URL bar and then press enter: javascript:$('.absimg').remove(); Edit: I noticed that when you paste the above text, chrome removes the &
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by jontas 13y ago
Shouldn't it be easy enough for Twitter to just return the handle to the original owner? I guess Twitter has to cover their own ass to a degree, and it is possible the original owner is making up this story and actually sold the Twitt
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The Technology Behind the NYTimes.com Redesign(open.blogs.nytimes.com)
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by jontas 13y ago
This is also an issue with Freenet. Granted, Freenet has not taken off the way Tor has, however, it is still chugging along.
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by jontas 13y ago
Sounds like you didn't read past the first couple of paragraphs.. while he isn't offering any conclusive proof, his argument consists a lot more than "I think it looks fake".
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by jontas 13y ago
Watch it again.. the bad guys are not some random street thugs, it is OCP, a mega corporation that produces the robots and is essentially a government organization (since that world is a "corporatocracy").
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by jontas 13y ago
Here he is on video discussing it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IgV_Z6V_llk I guess I wasn't actually there in person to witness it so I can't confirm he wasn't one of those Tupac holograms[1]. 1: http:&
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by jontas 13y ago
That premium is there to cover the additional risk they have identified is associated with renting to people under the age of 25.
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by jontas 13y ago
They mention car accidents as a statistic that drops off after the age of 25 (I only briefly skimmed the article). I have thought for a long time: leave it to the insurance companies/number crunchers to best predict when "maturity
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by jontas 13y ago
If you're writing OO javascript, you often want to use "this" to refer to your object, but various things in js and especially jquery can change the meaning/scoping of "this". So for example, if you have:
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by jontas 13y ago
I'm just playing Devil's Advocate here, but if in fact the NSA required copies of all fingerprints, I doubt Apple would be allowed to publicize it.

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