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For what it's worth, she describes herself as "bitchy software engineer. doing what i can to smash the patriarchy." in her Twitter bio.
I'd take whatever she says with a grain of salt. | >I'd take whatever she says with a grain of salt.
If you mean this universally, then you are not in favor of law enforcement, at least how it is carried out in the modern world. |
I'm seriously underwhelmed here. There's four new features on that page:
The Mac App Store
Maybe this is a naive point of view, but I can't see the value proposition for third-party devs to have their software in this store. Maybe I'm wrong and it'll be huge.
Launchpad
A touch interface for a screen that isn't touchabl... | I'm willing to bet that they went with what was ready to demo, rather than what they have planned. The stuff they've displayed seem fairly simple all things considered. However, I think they have a problem, what with twenty ways of doing things. Expose, Mission Control, the Launch Pad, the Doc, App folder, Spotlight,... |
Yeah! Haha the joke's on Facebook, Wikipedia, Flickr, Yahoo! Answers, Photobucket, Digg (RIP), etc ... Those fools have been using a joke language and didn't even know it!
Seriously, the PHP hate gets old. It started off very much as a scratch to one man's itch. That man wasn't the best programmer ever (wouldn't even s... | Who cares? It doesn't make the language any better. |
Curious - why are people so damn resistant to turning off their devices for takeoff and landing, given the chance it _might_ be safer?
Even in the absence of hard data, I would prefer to ensure all cockpit instruments work with minimal interference, than read another email or send another tweet. Then when data is avail... | I think a better question is why are you so resistant to making a sacrifice to Zeus, god of lightning, on the off chance it __might__ be helpful? There's a lot more evidence for Zeus than there is for iPods bringing down airplanes. (Lightning bolts are real, but there has never been a documented incident of the latte... |
Honest question: Has anyone actually found a good use for their Pebble? I wore mine once the day after it arrived, felt totally ridiculous, and it hasn't left the drawer since. | I've worn mine every day for three months now. It's fantastic. I can preview mail and read whole text messages without having to take out my phone or stop what I'm doing. Plus I use the Glance app to send quick replies to text messages I receive. |
Twitch is not going to be another YouTube success story. There just aren't enough great uses for live streaming yet and video game streaming is very far from being mainstream. Twitch obviously can't believe it's very close to reaching NFL-like status either or it wouldn't sell for a mere billion and change.
Amazon or G... | You do realize that the most subscribed Youtube channel is literally just that. A guy playing games with funny commentary. |
Thank you all for your kind words and thoughts. Aaron has been depressed about his case/upcoming trial, but we had no idea what he was going through was this painful.
Aaron was a terrific young man. He contributed a lot to the world in his short life and I regret the loss of all the things he had yet to accomplish. As... | Aaron was a unique, inspiring, and puzzling individual. I knew him only a little, but I always knew that whenever I heard his name it would be in the context of an ambitious and bold new adventure. It's truly tragic loss for the tech community, and I cannot imagine how difficult it must be for his family. Our thoughts ... |
A guy in a shirt, a guy in a polo, and an Asian lady. Why not a lady? Not calling you racist, but it is interesting how the race of non-whites seems to be included in some manner like it is always relevant. Why not mention the race of the two other people? Is it less relevant? You only mention the lady once. What role ... | You need to chill out. That is a seriously gigantic leap & stretch of logic to bring the word "racism" into. You do nothing but harm the foundation of the people pointing out real racism/sexist incidents. CONTEXT IS EVERYTHING(I'm saying that a lot these days), this is a satire story about a start-up's interview proc... |
You don't have to work in a field to be familiar with its problems. You can also be a user. But one way or another, you should understand the problems well. | I would agree with you on this one. I've never worked with news publishers before but we wanted to explore how the need for distribution affected news quality and what all we could do to extrapolate from there. Ended up spending a lot of time with a fairly large newspaper and iterating on ideas to finally arrive at per... |
Generating and caching are orthogonal questions. You can generate stuff, and then cache it. And in fact HN does do a lot of caching.
I wasn't asking how much faster "semantically correct markup" would make HN pages render as a rhetorical question. I'm genuinely curious. If you want to make claims that x is faster t... | Generating and caching can be intertwined. For example, HN seems to generate an inline script at the top of every page. The script doesn't change nearly as often as the posts do, so that script is sent redundantly at the top of every page. If that script were located at separate URL, set to expire never, every visitor ... |
And one can simply view source to get around that... | it was sarcasm, the "super secure" javascript part |
They already are crowd control weapons. Just not controlled. You probably meant to write aimable weapons.
Not kidding about this either. For example there are ways to design the facade of a building to make wind intensely uncomfortable for pedestrians, thus repelling homeless from the building. This actually works ... | >Not kidding about this either. For example there are ways to design the facade of a building to make wind intensely uncomfortable for pedestrians, thus repelling homeless from the building. This actually works pretty well for a "car culture" building.
Remind me to get this feature for my evil lair.
Considering that th... |
In Australia everyone is legally required to vote. | Is there any law against submitting a blank ballot? If so you can just write yourself in for every office for which you are eligible, and pick a friend to write in for any others.
If there's a law against a blank ballot AND write-ins are disallowed, you live in a sham democracy where an elite wants to legally compel yo... |
I'm not worried about knowing when to see the replies... My thought was having something posted that was not accurate.
Like, if I know I'm going to go grocery shopping next Sunday afternoon, I could mail you a postcard with the tweet "At the grocery store. The produce looks icky". Well, you might get that on Friday an... | Cute idea, but I don't want to over-engineer... just add a date/time note somewhere on the letter and I can accommodate. |
I think it's more likely for Unreal Engine. Epic have said that they're open to new language implementations as long as they are free and open-source (this being why they didn't want C#). | That's changed now, though: Microsoft's Roslyn C# compiler is Apache 2.0 licensed. :-)
https://github.com/dotnet/roslyn/blob/master/License.txt |
I don't find it depressing at all. I find it empowering. It's the vehicle we use to drive technological progress. We've figured out ways to have people voluntarily give us money to drive technological progress, and so far this has been phenomenally successful. I was just thinking this morning about NASA's use of AW... | This is like saying we should create more government beauracy , because the software and computing tools companies will build to deal with it will in the end get us to Mars faster. |
> It's quite possible that fixing some of the social problems would be a way more powerful motivator to stop bike theft
I want to live in a society free of crime. Where children and other vulnerable people move free from violence and theft.
Is that unreasonable? | No, I think everybody agrees with you there.
What I'm questioning is your proposed method of achieving that - putting more people in prison - is it likely to help?
Does anybody seriously think that the threat of prison is deterring people from committing drug-related crime? Do you suppose a typical homeless person cons... |
Taxi Magic lets you request a licensed cab from an app. But licensed cabs aren't allowed to charge cheaper prices. | Uber actually lets you request a licensed cab from the app in NYC now too. |
CVV/CVC doesn't have much to do with it (I can process cards with nothing more than the number). The issue was that sites were not authorizing cards in real time. | 4013 3825 3468 1688 |
I honestly don't know why anyone would use Cascading or Scalding when Spark exists. | Huge spark fan here. Love the execution model, API, supporting libs etc.
Unfortunately, Spark doesn't scale well on large datasets (10TB+). Sure, it's possible (and has been done), but right now there are too many rough edges to make it a better choice than Scalding/Cascading for data processing at scale. Most of this ... |
> The best data is just hard to collect online. Photos of person in their social group to deduce personality type would probably fail since there are so many variables.
The fact that there's so many variables isn't the reason such an analysis would fail. The reason is that there's just not enough input to predict perso... | >The fact that there's so many variables isn't the reason such an analysis would fail. The reason is that there's just not enough input to predict personality type with any statistical significance.
Isn't this the whole idea of factor analysis/singular variable decomposition? |
Yup. The details are slightly different for Cogent (I think we had it setup as a separate BGP session rather than as a community tag like he.net does it, but that was because my customer requested it that way.)
But yeah, you give them /32s to null, and they drop those /32s at the network edge.
It stops the attack, wel... | This is what I don't understand about DoS mitigation. So i'd null route the target, but then I have to move the service to another IP. I will also announce this IP to the customers, but that would simply redirect the DoS to the new address and take it down too... I mean, there seems to be no way to deal with DoS withou... |
Didn't get any love:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=741639 | I think a big factor in that is when something gets posted and whether or not it gets traction immediately. If that doesn't happen it will be gone before someone notices.
I completely missed it yesterday. The 'new' page gets filled up so fast sometimes it's not even funny. And that's when ignoring the spam. One thing t... |
"hero" is a standard term for that kind of image size and position in print and on the web. | Ah. Thanks for the info. |
If you're doing it persistently you just end up flooding the blockchain with useless information. At least with CoinJoin you're reducing the number of payment TXs that need to be stored and validated. The blockchain is already getting annoyingly large (20GB+ with indexes) without adding fluff like that.
If you really w... | You pay for transactions. Don't tell people what to do with their money. Most of the transactions wouldn't be mixed at all. Just using new addresses with small balances is good enough for daily purchases. Mixing is needed only in certain cases like before and after big consolidating transactions.
CoinJoin is nice too, ... |
"Not too difficult". Hah. http://immigrationroad.com/green-card/immigration-flowchart-...
The shortest route is 10 years. | It's not true. I got an employment-based green card a little over a year after I set foot in the country.
What is true is that the system is rigged against Indians and Chinese. If you are Indian and don't have a PhD, then yes, you may have to wait 10 years, probably longer in fact. Unlike the hardships of illegal im... |
Academic tickets are always tougher to get, if it's really important to you to go to the conference you might consider putting the full price one on your credit card and selling your swag. | That is a tempting idea, but I'm on the east coast, so I really can't handle the cost of a ticket plus airfare there and back, even if I got reimbursed a little by the swag. I'll probably just end up taking a few days off and watching the live streams like the rest of the world. |
That one doesn't require Chrome, but it does require Flash!
I'm pretty sure FF4 supports everything that's needed to run a game like this, out of the box. | In Chrome it requires flash to play the sound (same as the plugin version). Everything else works fine without flash. |
If you take an area without forest and plant a forest on it then when the tree dies a new one grows in its place. A mature forest is roughly carbon neutral but reflorestation is taking a bunch of carbon from the atmosphere and converting it to tree trunks. | Does that mean that the Amazon rainforest is carbon neutral? |
I don't see how it matters whether the buffering is implemented in software or hardware; it's still there and it's too big.
If the problem really is because your CPE device has too bigbuffers than build your own.
I think Gettys wants to solve the problem for everyone, not just ubergeeks. | What he's saying is that you can make custom hardware that's fast enough so you don't need any buffering. |
Would it satisfy the bug reporter if we show a HTTP 401 unauthorized for anyone who has DNT turned on? | I'm not the reporter, but I'd be fine with that. |
I think you're conveniently forgetting that most people choose a Mac so they have more time to create stuff, rather than messing with their computer. | the biggest condesenting pricks i have known usually use macs. It is rare to see windows users sneer at other people, just b/c of their choice of OS.
Remember, not everybody has 2K to spend in a computer, and if you are a student and do, your priorities are kind of backwards.
You can save a 1k by bying a decent PC, so... |
I have absolutely no idea whatsoever what he is talking about. Maybe it's all above my head :/ Did it make any sense to anyone else? | I am not an expert at interpretation but I think he meant the following:
Doing better then others is what bring traction but not always, especially when the market is crowded.
Sometimes it just doesn't work, coz there are numerous out there doing the same thing - trying to do it better. Only if you do it the best you g... |
> It's like the developers have never actually used it to draw something or edit a photo.
That seems like an unfortunately common trend. If you ever try any of the hex editors on Linux (ghex, Bless, etc), it's very evident that they were written by people who have no experience actually using hex editors. It's as if th... | Have you tried wxHexEditor? I found it as good as Hex Workshop, at least. |
Just about every pro sports league needs to manage its rules to ensure that the playing field gets leveled every season. For example, NFL draft picks are in reverse order of season success. If last year's Super Bowl winner was able to choose their next team on a completely free market, they would simply use their boost... | Outside of America there are far more sports that don't try to even the playing field artificially. Motor racing (I don't know much about non-F1 racing anyway) is pretty much the limit in the UK, team games generally work on the free market, individual games can generally be dominated by great individuals. |
> I'll assume you've heard all the counterarguments I want to provide right now, and simply choose to ignore them.
No I'm not ignoring them. I've heard them, understood them and disagree.
> If you want to be an ass online you're allowed.
So the fact that I hold a contrary opinion is being an ass? | So the fact that I hold a contrary opinion is being an ass?
No. The fact that you responded snottily makes you an ass. You're allowed to disagree, but it irks me when people get smug over a difference of opinion. |
The two examples most familiar to me are the Jean Valjean scenario (stealing for survival) and the Jack Bauer scenario (coercion or torture to save lives).
In both cases, there's an argument that the underlying activity (theft, torture) should remain illegal. It would be difficult or impossible to codify all the permis... | ...the Jack Bauer scenario...
I find 24 to be much more interesting when I view Bauer as a second villain, rather than the unquestionable hero as it seems he's portrayed. |
Startup entrepreneurs who might be going for the first time, because everyone is telling them "you have to be there" but aren't sure what the point is or what to do.
OPs Q: who is this directed at (good Q) | I like the way you write. It's straightforward and cuts the crap. I kinda wish there was more articles like this. |
Apple Siri uses Nuance speech recognition technology; afaik Siri run on their server at launch.
It seems they outsourced tasks to another company to improve the speech recognition. The classification task that the Reddit user does can be used by Nuance to improve their data.
As another Reddit user mentioned that after ... | There are hundreds of millions of iOS and Android devices out there. If someone is starting to recognize voices, it supports a common sense reaction that a subset of voice commands are being used for QA/QC purposes to improve accuracy. |
Do you mean HN or YC? | It was a joke, since the goal of HN is not to make money. It wasn't very well received though... |
Not in Python, because you wouldn't globally override it. You would just override the __getattr__ of the appropriate objects and be done with it, and nothing else would be affected. If you want it to be isolated a bit of work with "with" would make it easy.
Though I would go an entirely different direction, personally,... | What do you mean by "reusable"?
You're basically using Python as if it were Lisp, which is kind of ugly :) |
I hide mine in the folder on my desktop labeled "porn". Neither myself or my girlfriend have any problems with it, but I know plenty of my friends who would be offended if they saw it. On my laptop I keep it in a truecrypt folder with a password I share with the girlfriend (because she adds to it and uses it, not becau... | http://xkcd.com/981/ |
Too bad this guy never took a data structures course. Binary search on an array is O(log N) in the DAM model, while search in a B-tree is optimal: O(log N/log B).
Note that if your elements are english words, let's be extremely generous and say they are 12 bytes on average, with a 4-byte offset, that's 16 bytes per el... | Indeed, this post falls into the category "things that people often rediscover". Using storage optimized data structures and algorithms is very, very old.
[ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merge_sort#Use_with_tape_drives ] |
While you are correct, Many of the points apply to mass transportation in general, and society might no have a choice due to environmental/growth/resource problems. | I don't understand your statement.
Mass transit is a different issue. A good mass transit, which holds to a schedule, does not have the same built-in variability that an "everyone is an Uber driver" scheme has.
My ferry example, for example, is mass transit. If I live in the countryside, and have an hourly bus or even ... |
Or go for the Play framework: http://www.playframework.org/ | Thanks I checked out both Play Framework and Stripes Presentation Frameworks. There is so much out there, it is amazing! |
Breaking News: The Dow goes above an arbitrary number!
I know we as humans have a tendency to assign meaning to things like this, but the truth is it doesn't make much difference.
Especially the Dow. Stop paying attention to it. It's a terrible measure of anything but what the Dow weightings are. First, it's only 30 co... | It matters because it matters to people. It's completely arbitrary, but sometimes humans just work that way. Like it or not, there are going to be individuals watching the nightly news tonight and will hear about the Dow crossing 16,000, and they will think "Wow, it's going up, I need to get in on this," and/or it will... |
I would say pick one language to begin with and spend about a year trying out beginner material, building small things, and learning how to find information for yourself online.
I suggest Python, check out these resources:
http://wiki.python.org/moin/BeginnersGuide/NonProgrammers | Thank you. This looks like a good place to start. |
Not trying to minimize anything he did with NeXT, but I would be shocked if he did the coding for it..... he was already wealthy, and was an executive trying to launch a premium product.
I'm sure he had a vision for it, but it wouldn't make sense for him to have been bogged down at that level. | There was a demo he did of NeXTSTEP where he coded some stuff (can't provide a link - work blocks streaming video). It's certainly possible that he memorized it, but he didn't have any hesitations so I think he had more than a casual familiarity with it. |
If you're using strict Javascript (and you should be) there are no implicit global variables. | how would an example of javascript without implicit global variables work?
For example, how does it get access to "Array", "require" or "window" ?
(I don't think "use strict" goes to the length of turning javascript into bracha's newspeak but I may likely have no idea what "strict javascript" actually refer to) |
For D&D people often create their own stories, and they display their imagination in acting it out (even with pre-fabricated stories, the options for actions are infinite). WoW only allows you to follow actions that have been written into the game by Blizzard. I think it is very different.
However, you are right, emplo... | I've never played, but my perception (from what I've heard) is that in D&D one person does the creating and the rest just sort of play. Is that inaccurate?
I really just meant it as an example of a hobby people obsess about though. I don't doubt it's a little more food for the brain than WoW, which I rank possibly belo... |
On the other hand, 3k is not a lot and gets you a guaranteed meeting. | It's a lot to the average person. By having a paid tier system like this, you're ensuring that only the rich and businesses have access to politicians (which actually goes a long way to explaining why American politics is so biased towards those already on top of the food chain; or "capitalism" as those in power often ... |
I know! (I didn’t mention it because my comment was getting long enough already.) It seems if you can’t sell to the low end you absolutely need to show off your analog film chops in some way to be really taken seriously. Or at least you had to. (I mean, Sony’s current cameras are certainly thoroughly modern and you can... | Yeah, although their lens strategy seems a bit of a mess - Minolta, Alpha, and Alpha Full-Frame. |
I actually am his mom.
Just curious, though, do you actually have any evidence that Intellectual Ventures is charging people for stuff they were already doing? Have they taken anyone to court over these patents? I'm not buying their spin, I'm assuming their innocence until guilt is proven. | > I'm assuming their innocence until guilt is proven.
They are extortionists and vultures. Their business model is to buy cheap patents from people who just do pure research. Then they go and sue the pants off people who do real work and make a honest living by doing things that make real products.
So I don't know ho... |
(I loved phrasing this as "You could certainly have your engineering team do this, if you want to write a $10,000 payroll check with the memo 'Reading free information on the Internet'.")
This is probably one of the best arguments for niche specialization that you'll find. Say you're a Ruby developer, but you know a lo... | Clients also have a tendency to reach deeper into their pockets when the risk of failure is lower
Yep. Basically, it's an expected value calculation: your project actually costs the sticker price divided by chance of success. (If you quote $20k and the customer's experience is that 20% of projects fail the "true cost... |
I love browsing through a tons of different subreddits that have now matured and grown very interesting. In decreasing order of interest to me:
http://www.reddit.com/r/somethingimade/
http://www.reddit.com/r/longtext/
http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/
http://www.reddit.com/r/PhilosophyofScience/
http://www.reddit.co... | http://www.reddit.com/r/somethingimade+longtext+programming+...
This will aggregate all of those subreddits in to a single view. |
> 'Sexist' is thrown about too much, imho.
On the contrary, I don't think it's thrown around nearly often enough, at least in the tech/entrepreneurial community. In the name of rejecting political correctness, the cultural norm has swung in the complete opposite direction -- and virtually no one has been willing to spe... | I forget the details of the arrest, but there are plenty of reasons possessing a gun is illegal. Don't immediately assume he was innocent and rule out the possibilities that concealment laws or registration laws didn't come into play. Maybe he didn't violate any laws after all, but that wasn't his defense so it seems... |
Ouch.
They're probably encoding in XML and several nested layers of base64!!
(yes I have actually seen people doing this in a finance company's integration platform). | They're storing all the metadata, and for better or worse they are storing each string field as an "object" whereas they could have used a fixed-width field. The former of course is something like a reference count and a pointer to a string elsewhere; the latter would have some overhead when strings are of varying len... |
There's a Radio section. You can choose genres and decades, but nothing equivalent to an "Artist radio". | "For now, the Radio feature will not be available for U.S. users."
"The radio feature will eventually be available. However, I can't say exactly when that will be. Be reminded, that Spotify is not chiefly a radio service. The lack of a radio feature for the time being is a factor of licensing agreements with the rights... |
Because the law doesn't automatically enforce itself. It takes times and resources to go to court -- and usually more of each than a single individual has available. | How about legal expense insurance? |
You are also shoring up the banks balance sheets, remember. As others have said, money invested isn't dead - it is actively lent to others.
Money spent on Stella, kebabs and fags doesn't really count. | Poor people don't buy Stella, dude.
And you missed the point like 4x in this thread.. people weren't saying that funneling money to banks was unstimulative, they were saying that giving money to people who will consumer-spend it is more stimulative. This is pretty much accepted in the economic community. |
That is true. But also noone is writing critical systems staying up all night drinking Red Bull. Look at other engineering disciplines. Where are the bridge and dam building rockstars? Where are the nuclear power ninjas?
I wonder what "rock stars" are going to do when they discover other uses for their time, hobbies, f... | I think you're talking about two different things:
1. People that are dedicated to their craft, write A LOT of code and self-study in their free time.
2. Red bull drinking Valley stereotypes.
People from camp 1 don't live up to the stereotype of the "rock star" but definitely work way more than 9-5. Where work is defin... |
That's still literally more expensive than the main computer I use at home. | Well Mathematica is really ridiculously feature-rich and sophisticated software. |
Wine is hell of a project. Having all those windows programs running on linux/os x is really a huge achievement. I know that there is still a way to go, but I really admire this herculean effort put into this project. | I'm always really impressed when things just work in Wine. I started using YNAB this year and sure enough, it worked in Wine _with Dropbox integration_. Pretty cool. |
I thought diamonds have little to no resale value, or is there other ways to speculate or use them as a something valuable ? | How can a diamond be "used"? I think it's only the person offering to buy it trying to convince you of this.
Diamonds are cheap and easy to appraise, and with laser etching easy to identify. I buy all my ice with AGL certs off eBay.
There are more degrees of freedom than with something like gold coins, so diamonds aren... |
I was hoping for something a little more scientific... | Here's the 35 page exective summary of the IPCC climate change report: https://www.ipcc.ch/pdf/assessment-report/ar5/syr/AR5_SYR_FI...
If you want to know more about how realistic implementing substantive technological changes will be before we hit 500 ppm CO2 or some other benchmark, I submitted a link to a talk by V... |
Programming language names seem particularly bad in that respect: python, ruby, Java, C... | Python is very much googleable, and C isn't that bad either. Just differentiating between C, C++ and C# wasn't possible on Google until lately. |
You're doing that with the atom.xml already anyway.
Your approach right now doesn't seem to work with search engines very well:
https://encrypted.google.com/search?hl=en&q=site%3Ahttp%3A%2...
https://duckduckgo.com/?t=lm&q=site%3Ahttp%3A%2F%2Fnikolay.r...
https://yandex.ru/search/?lr=114311&text=site%3Ahttp%3A%2F%2...
... | looks like it works perfectly |
...now made irrelevant by gait analysis. | Couldn't you deter that by just putting a rock in your shoe? |
I like that! Any typefaces you would propose in particular? Not sure if you noticed, but we've used two typefaces on the current version of the site: Adobe Caslon Pro and Proxima Nova. | Design/typography isn't my thing. I couldn't tell you much about them, but I would imagine you'd like to have some sort of interesting collage of quotes where the typefaces complimented each other. That's probably the most important aspect, typefaces that wouldn't clash.
I'll have to defer you to someone else who knows... |
"Each jumper, no matter how many there were, brought fresh horror, elicited shock, tested the spirit, struck a lasting blow."
That is a seriously overwritten article. There are few things worse in journalism than people who think they're making a big statement, just making the statement bigger. As if they needed to exp... | It's esquire. Of course it's overwritten. |
Charge leaks through the conductors as well into the connecting circuits, through the packaging and the adhesives. No insulator doesn't leak. | Your remark applies to any storage device, including batteries. So it's not an issue that sets supercapacitors apart. |
Star Diaries +1 (what a surprise that you... :-))
Brave New World.
I read those when I was 12... then everything I could find by Lem and Huxley too. | Me too - also when I was a kid. |
This isn't the first alternative parser for MediaWiki content -- there are 28 rows in this table. (I just added Sweble's and my own project...)
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Alternative_parsers#Known_impl...
Most of these are special purpose hacks. Kiwi and Sweble are the most serious projects I'm aware of, that have t... | Hey Neilk!
Did you ever turn up anything regarding this? http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2216249
btw, neat js parser, i'll have to check it out. :) |
YSlow isn't weighted properly and offers you a false sense of security.
Your site, in current setup, wouldn't last very long if you had hundreds of concurrent requests since you have so many requests. You do realize that most browsers allow two concurrent downloads per IP? You should distribute all these images across... | It isn't weighted properly you are correct, however it is a good guideline to cover your bases.
I appreciate the tips, but at the moment we have pretty much all of your points covered
- We are currently using asset hosts (assets0..assets3.revzilla.com) (Rails provides this functionality out of the box with 2.0)
- All s... |
Clink is just what I need for those times I ahve to use cmd.exe - thank you for the tip! | Thank my brother, he's the author! :) |
This could be related to the fact that soundcloud is an european company and none of the legislation in Europe actually provides a means for donating works to the public domain (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_domain#Dedicating_works_...)
I remember the creator of SQLite talking about this on a very old episode... | He solved that by allowing us to buy an SQLite license for 1000 dollars, though :)
I wonder how many of those have been sold! |
(UK) This is basically what you get from John Lewis, and the Co-Operative; both are the last vestiges of the old mutual movement.
The building societies used to be a good option for non-aggressive finance, but almost all of them sold out. | The Nationwide Building Society is still a mutual. |
This is not true.
There are companies selling development kits with GC enabled system programming languages, like Oberon, for embedded development.
http://www.astrobe.com/default.htm
Granted, ARM Cortex-M3 and NXP LPC2000 microcontrollers are more powerful than typical Arduino hardware, but one does not need to target ... | http://technical.io/ even managed to run Node.JS on a Cortex-M3, but in the deeply-embedded world where performance/$ and real-time constraints matters, having a always-GC system like Golang (especially considering it's designed for cached cores) doesn't sound very promising.
However I did look Golang because it makes ... |
I'm pretty sure sneaking into a server closet and patching your computer into their network was already against the law before this incident happened. | It was a janitorial closet, not a server room. And connecting to a network is not illegal. |
How fast does the market move? If someone buys my coffee based on the posted USD/BTC conversion rate as of 12:00:00, and I convert those back into dollars at 12:00:01, how much variance am I likely to see between the original USD price and the USD amount that I finally collect? | Any service that converted between BTC and USD would probably require at least 1 confirmation - i.e. it would take 10 minutes before the USD were sent to your account.
The market value could change in that time, perhaps by 10% or more when the market is unusually volatile. However, assuming that these rises and falls a... |
2 differences between MS and Apple in this context. MS was very supportive of developers in its ecosystem. And they were never this arrogant. | Unless, of course, you were a developer at Stac Electronics:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stac_Electronics
... or one of the many other companies that produced something that Microsoft decided would be better if it was bundled with the OS.
I'm not defending Apple here, but come on, be realistic. |
Related to this is the no-complaining bracelet challenge, which I think has been mentioned here before. I've been doing this challenge, and finding it life-changing. The idea is to wear a bracelet, and never complain. If you complain, you must change the bracelet to the other arm. The goal is to go for 30 days stra... | I never heard of this. It sounds like a really cool experiment. I might have to try this out with my watch. I don't wear bracelets and I don't plan on starting. |
Netflix/Amazon Instant/iTunes is not making as much money as it could in a market full of perfect angels, too. | Their catalogues are also much more limited, especially outside the US. |
Thanks for peddling your unrelated application. | Your welcome. In what way do you feel it is unrelated? I'm doing something in the group collaboration space. There were a bunch of other links posted. Some of which I hadn't ever heard of. I though it was a good contribution.
Log in. Create an item. Share the item. Let me know if you still think it is completel... |
You can mock me all you want, but communicating effectively with your customers, especially during a "crisis", is important.
It will affect how people perceive your product and your ability to continue to provide it. If they want to monetize, they need customers.
We're not talking about a major undertaking. Simply prov... | Actually, I'm phenomenally impressed with how Posterous is responding personally to all of their customers. Their messages is pretty straight forward "DOS - hope to be back up within the Hour" - That's all I'd really need to know.
Ironically, I came to ycombinator first to see what the status was and didn't even have ... |
i dont think the chrome multiprocess model works well on mobiles yet.
it needs more memory specifically if you start having a few tabs. | it needs more memory specifically if you start having a few tabs
- have you seen the specs of the latest high-end phones and tablets? 1GiB of RAM is the norm now
- the number of concurrent open tabs can be limited. It has already been done on Android and iOS (and might still be the case). |
Be careful. There is a very fine line past which repetition of my name feels condescending to me. Customer support representatives, particularly those that are clearly outside of the US, go way past this line every time. | I completely agree. I just wrote that to illustrate my point that the reason they do this is to build rapport. Of course, too much of a good thing is bad. |
Isn't that like saying that your car's movements records of its movements are business records of the manufacturer, or of OnStar, and subject to subpoena? | OnStar or undocumented GSM systems in Tesla...
See http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3619088 and http://theunderstatement.com/post/18030062041/its-a-brick-te... (under Prevention Measures).
"After the first 500 Roadsters, Tesla added a remote monitoring system to the vehicles, connecting through AT&T’s GSM-based cell... |
You can't stand people who believe their political views/beliefs are the RIGHT ones? How should people feel about their political beliefs--what would be an appropriate attitude to take, if not to think theirs are RIGHT? | This is a blatant and deliberate mischaracterization of what EpicEng said. Of course everyone believes that their beliefs are correct (I can't even believe I had to type that).
It's the belief that anyone with a different ideology or party registration is stupid/greedy/brainwashed/naive/etc he was referring to. |
Then it seems like this story is more "corporation raids corporation" than "corporation raids academic seed corn". | Basically. But that headline doesn't play nearly as well to the heartstrings of a readership already primed to assume Uber is the antagonist in any story with its name in the title. ;) |
What I typically do is start "leading the witness" by asking genuinely objective questions.
Genuine is the key there. You can never beat a boisterous person by being a prick with belittling or subjective questions. However, if you stick with concrete questions and examples then I have found it tends to disarm overly co... | This is great advice - the socratic method is really key. It also helps to drill into the concrete details (aka facts) rather than staying at a higher subjective level.
I've also found it very helpful to write down the conclusion in a follow up email/slack. Writing helps people consider and rethink their commitments. ... |
There's a polyfill that works very well actually: https://github.com/ModuleLoader/es6-module-loader IE8/IE9 depending on what ES6 features you use. | I wasn't following JS loaders for sometime. Are you saying that most people now use ES6 modules instead of AMD? |
Are you just storing it as a quick way to get the score with tallying votes?
A) I can normalize something scaled on 1 to 5 just as easily as -1 to 1. Is it that much harder using 3 as your middle, as opposed to 0? As a bonus, you don't have to account for negative numbers when you display stuff.
B) A non-vote could j... | When I say a non-vote, though, I mean a real non-vote. Like, the person did not submit a vote. The total number of participants went up, but the rating stayed the same. If a non-vote was anything other than 0, this wouldn't work. |
No. That's simply not true by any macroeconomic definition of "value". You're making the classic (and wrong) assumption taht there is only a certain amount of "stuff" available, and spending it in one place means that you can't use it elsewhere. That works for checkbooks. It doesn't work for economies. | There is a finite amount of funding in the federal "checkbook"/budget for a given year. Spending that money means that it can't be used on projects that will pay much better dividends in the future, even if it just means paying off a debt, reducing future interest payments.
A useless bridge will be a drain on the budge... |
The algorithm is not targeted against the type of password which the XKCD comic suggests. The algorithm is designed to exploit common human behavior, which is similar to the XKCD method but not identical. The significant difference is that human behavior in picking words is not random, while the XKCD method requires th... | Where are you guys getting this? All I read was this:
> Steube was able to crack "momof3g8kids" because he had "momof3g" in his 111 million dict and "8kids" in a smaller dict.
> "The combinator attack got it! It's cool," he said. Then referring to the oft-cited xkcd comic, he added: "This is an answer to the batteryho... |
MySQL DOES have support for foreign keys.
create table foo (blah, blah, blah) engine = innodb
Sorry, I'm not trying to start an argument. That sentence just struck me as a bit inflammatory. | The GP's point is that the default engine, and hence the one used by probably 90+% of people using MySQL doesn't support FKs and other "standard" data integrity features that you wouldn't even know to ask about, since every other major db supports them by default.
Plus if you try to create an FK on a myisam backed tabl... |
Don't forget, 'real' bank accounts work like this as well. The money is no longer yours once you deposit into an account. The bank represents it as a liability on its balance sheet. As an account holder you are an 'unsecured creditor' of the bank. I have a feeling a lot more of us will be aware of this arrangement with... | US banks have FDIC insurance to protect deposits up to $250,000 [1]. To the extent that you trust the US government you can trust that your money is safe in a US bank up to the stated FDIC limits. Banks fail all the time. There have been 8 failures in 2014 so far and not a single penny of depositor money has been lost.... |
I've had a laptop with a broken keyboard, that I tried to drive with a pointer. And a system without a mouse driven with a keyboard. I was surprised how much I could do with the former.
I like the terminal, and I am also a reasonable touch typist. I don't particularly enjoy typing though. I've tried a few different... | Counterpoint: I was with a bunch of friends when I was young, we wanted to play some music, and we had a computer with some MP3s on it, AND speakers, but we happened to not have a screen lying around at that time.
Didn't have. A screen.
So I asked the guy, "Where are your MP3s?" (Answer, "D:\Mp3"), turned on the comput... |
Apple is a US company and the keynote is in the US. Inches are not considered "uncool" nor "old fashioned" in the US. The US tried switching to metric many years ago, but it didn't work.
I'm sure their localized advertising for other countries lists the dimensions in metric units. | Nope. The UK and German stores give e.g. iPad Air 2 thickness in mm, weight in grams and screen size in inches.
They are sticking to inches deliberately for screen measurement. They even use the German 9,7" instead of the US/UK 9.7" so it's not that they forgot to translate. |
55% - that's frighteningly low, for a developed country. | "55% of employed Americans" != "55% of Americans are employed" |
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