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Right, that all sounds very sensible and something virtually every economist would agree with, the only question is if the concept of the URV really made any difference (which was the main claim of the "Planet Money" story).
The fact is that the value of currency is impacted by controlling demand (which the URV was att... | The psychological part of it was really not 100% the cause of its effectiveness a part of the reality of why it worked is the government couldn't print more URV.
This is why it was a great trick, it was a trick to the people but also a trick to the government.
Basically it was a double jedi mind trick. |
Programming Clojure 2nd ed, Clojure for the Brave and True. Probably others as well :) | +1 for clojure for the brave and true. Best overview book out there IMO. |
I still don't know what he was getting at, and neither does he. :) | So, are you his cofounder?! |
Rebuttals should be in the form of a working search engine. | that's included |
Not recognised as you say, except by the signatories of this on July 7th 2012.
http://fcmconference.org/img/CambridgeDeclarationOnConscious... | very interesting, thanks! |
I don't even have to read this article to say that no, Linkedin is not better than this, whatever this is. | Yeah, I can't get the article to load, but my reaction was pretty much the same. |
thanks man. i've also updated the graphs on my blog. | Still a small issue: the graphs aren't the same scale (64b goes 0-5; 32b goes 0-4) |
What is the extreme left for you? Stalinism isn't extreme left, it's just an totalitarianism promoted as socialism to gain credit. Just as north korea ain't a democracy even though they call themselves that. What I usually associate with "extreme" or far left is the "autonomous left" or similar where trade unions are c... | This is the "but it was never implemented correctly" argument. To the rest of the world, I assure you that Soviet-style communism definitely qualifies as socialism. |
Just to clarify, you wouldn't want to upload stuff to WorkFlowy, right? You'd basically just want to link to it from another location? | Um. It would be nice to attach (via upload or via link) a screenshot or PDF to certain items, but I wouldn't want to format this inline with my text. Just be able to click and view.
I definitely wouldn't want to sacrifice the simplicity and elegance of the text only view. |
I agree and have a hard time convincing friends/family, polarized on either side, this same point. The agenda of the elites is being advanced by whichever party will take the lowest bid. And cleverly enough this just keeps us pitted against each other while allowing for small victories/defeats, depending on what side y... | Bread & circuses. |
Yes, this might work. But I would be careful about replication and scaling - this could make things somewhat complicated. ;-) | Not necessarily:
Replication is basically just a provision for instant failover. Let's say that by policy the background data store (e.g. MySQL) always has a copy that is at most 10 minutes old. In practice it could probably be much more recent. So in general user data is safe but you want something very simple to prev... |
Also notably,
1. Mirzakhani is the first Iranian
2. Bhargava is the first Canadian
3. Hairer is the first Austrian
4. Avila is the first Brazilian | Mirzakhani is the first woman to ever win, which is even more notable than being the first Iranian. |
> Anybody that is not skeptical about 7% weekly returns on anything is just asking for it. That's 33x your money in 1 year. How can that sound legit to anybody?
If you were following the Bitcoin forums at the height of the Ponzi, anyone who suggested it was a Ponzi was called a troll who was libelling pirateat40 by wha... | At the same time— a lot of well respected people also called it out and did not participate.
(And made all the same points which are also obvious in hindsight...) |
A factor I think the article doesn't point out clearly enough is how the main attraction of dissing code is that it serves as an ego-defense mechanism. Understanding code is, almost without exception, challenging. It's much easier on our self image if we believe the code is to blame, rather than us.
An unfortunate side... | A good assessment in my opinion.
As a junior coder earlier in my career I found exactly the situation described. A co-worker was always griping loudly about how bad the code and architectural decisions of certain people supposedly were - all except his own, of course.
At first I was too diffident to form an opinion an... |
This is a comical level of rationalization from someone who is obviously still in school (and if not, I don't even know where to begin...). The whole point of taking a test in school is to see how well YOU know the material, not how well you can look stuff up or ask other people for help. If you have so little respect ... | Yes, that's what I'm saying. The whole point of taking a test in school is misguided.
Also, it's obvious you are mentally disabled. Otherwise you wouldn't disagree with me, because I'm objectively right. You should go back inside your padded cell and take your medication. /s |
Wow. I never even considered that they would differ on something like that.
That's a substantial hit on the "it just works" front. Some apps will not be able to do anything useful without this. Some people won't understand why. | The reason why is that Qualcomm and most 3G chip manufacturers bundle GPS, as it is required by federal law for 911 service. Just adding a standalone GPS module to the Wifi version would probably cost about as much as adding a 3G chip.
Btw, does anyone else find it striking how much patent licensing adds to the cost o... |
> Weird. It could be some test gone wrong, but I still don't buy Chinese gov attacking purposely and openly github like that.
A "test" that specifically targets two projects that promote anti-censorship. Yeah, that's some "test"... | In same way Trinity was a test, I assume ;) |
It's the same law; their logic is that promoting LGBT rights means promoting deviant sexual behaviour, and doing so publicly will inevitably reach children. | "Their" is referring whom exactly? I don't think Russia is a Common Law country, judges there cannot derive something from a law so whomever you think is interpreting the law. Were not media saying that gay athletes in Sochi are going to be incarcerated using the same logic? |
When you say Full House problem, are you referring to collision of names? (All Google comes up with is info on the 90s TV show) | Gibbler was a character on the show. Seems the name was chosen because it's apparently unique in the ruby ecosystem.
I know this only because I was in love with her at the time .. guh |
> 50% of their revenue goes directly to the company's running the campaign
False.
> sales are declining
False. | Groupon Loses Market Share as Online Daily Deals Decline(By Douglas MacMillan on August 15, 2012)
At Groupon Inc. (GRPN), daily deals are fading. That’s the message the company sent many investors this week when it reported a decline in gross billings, or the total value of goods and services bought on its site, betwee... |
great post. Where are the competitors in this market? Could duckduckgo have been made with Google tools? | Not under their current terms because Google won't let you change the look, content, or order of the results, or let you omit some--all of which I am doing with Yahoo's feed. |
Thanks for the feedback!
Yes, will definitely need to do a better job explaining how grouping works (and perhaps also fine-tune how it actually does work). Currently the time setting (e.g. the default 10 minutes) is the time threshold between successive edits for grouping edits together. Note that this only affects gro... | To whoever stumbles upon this thread: version 1.2.1 is now out (now live at revisionsapp.com and mac app store version in review) and introduces the following two main new features
- Ignoring certain files and folders based on regular expression match (note: premium-only feature)
- Ability to launch any diff app (inclu... |
The matter was not something that needed to be attended to at 9:45 pm on a Friday night. They could have done it during business hours. Actually, they did not even need to visit the premises. They could have used a subpoena. | They could have used a subpoena
If you're investigating a possible crime, you don't say "Hey, at your convenience could you get us your computers for us to look at?" You get a warrant and take the computers as soon as possible.
You can argue whether or not the warrant should have been issued, but once it was, the rest... |
From the email thread, it sounds like the decision to shard on UID was made mostly to increase locality of data, so that you didn't have to query more than one node to get a single user's data.
There's no silver bullet here. Hashing on insertion order would basically guarantee that writes would favor one node over anot... | This stuff can be very counter intuitive. Locality may not be what you want.
For example, last I heard google's search index was sharded by document rather than by term.
That sounds odd, since if it was sharded by term, then a given search would only need to go to a handful of servers (one for each term) and then the i... |
According to Wikipedia, 125 watts when it was launched, down to about 100 watts in 14 years.
The JPL guys claim that the RTG is really just a trickle charger for the batteries that actually handle the load -- which likely has transients that the thermocouple in the RTG couldn't handle.
I don't know the lifetime of the ... | There's a LiPo technology called "thin film lithium" which is claimed good for 10,000 cycles - assuming one charge/discharge cycle per day (and incorrectly using earth-days for simplicity), that'd give you ~27 years lifetime from the battery. (I wonder if this'll end up with the same "over engineered" reliability that ... |
Am I the only one who came up with the solution "embed the ads in your game" while reading the description of the problem? Of course, my excitement of having guessed this plot twist faded when I read on about how this was patented. Oh well, I'm sure the real genius was in the Romulan-like cloaking technology they inv... | It's also a poor solution! Getting people on your site is much more important than getting people to play your game, because some % of your visitors will return to check out what else you've done. If it's on other sites, they'll return to check out what else is on that site - not your games.
Ads pay out little but you ... |
The callback-based example is complicated for no reason other than to support your argument. This is how it translates:
f(print); | Of course its complicated for no reason. Its an example! The same logic would apply if I had 5+ nontrivial lines of code instead of just a print statement. |
This article got it almost right. Copyright notices aren't required but are generally recommended because they prevent an "innocent infringer" defense. Basically, courts will be unwilling to reduce damages if infringer argues that he/she didn't know the work was copyrighted.
Also, in the U.S. under federal law, copyr... | I wonder what happens in this case:
1. You think up a new poem, and speak it at open mic night at a club. No one is recording, so there is no fixation.
2. Someone else hears your poem, goes home, and writes it down from memory. That's not fixation, since 17 USC 101 defines one of the elements of fixation as being by or... |
Drew Houston has an amazing sense of humor. https://twitter.com/#!/drewhouston/status/194837482490179584 | Some of the responses are downright depressing:
Vijay Vasu @gunshotdigital
@drewhouston @Dropbox huh what? will people be able to search my files!!! #NOTCOOL |
From what you just posted your English sounds fine. If your English isn't great, and you feel there is some miscommunication, make sure not to hide it but just to ask for verification about what you're thinking you need to do. | Thank you, actually on Odesk 3 stars mean fluent in written English, but not so good in spoken English.
I wonder if a lot of people need to communicate on skype for example. |
The alternative is very simple and was already tried in Ancient Greeks:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sortition | How about campaign finance reform? At the moment it's like "one dollar, one vote".
There's also the issue that becoming a politician takes money, free time and a degree from somewhere where the College Republicans/Democrats have a really active chapter. I have no idea how to fix this problem. |
Plug-and-Play was a shitty alternative when far superior systems existed on other platforms. Instead they opted for a really horribly limited system. Compare Autoconfig on the Amiga, for example, which was older and provided far more advanced capabilities and was well documented if they could've been bothered to at lea... | I bought one of the early Amigas. They used commodity hardware, but would alter the connector so you had to buy it from them. No thanks. |
Exactly that. I really want to do an HN post asking people to curb all of the sensationalist headlines (especially if you haven't fully researched the situation).
I just feel like it will get lost in the noise though | At least headlines on HN are frequently edited to make them true.
That was always one of the things that drove me batshit crazy about slashdot -- nominally it has editors, but they let straight up flame-bait submissions go through. |
Thanks for your work!
I was trying to get IHaskell to build on Arch Linux(using the Hackage package). I couldn't get it to work with either the arch packages for ipython2 or for ipython3. The version that IHaskell tries to install also didn't work. Should I just wait for your latest release? | I recommend installing IPython 3 with pip, cloning the repository, and then running ./build.sh ihaskell. If that doesn't work, file an issue and I'll be happy to help figure out the installation woes. (Note that ihaskell install must be run for IPython to know about the kernel! Updating the documentation is the last b... |
The video was done by Symphony of Science.
http://www.symphonyofscience.com/index.html
From the about page: "Inspiration from The Gregory Brothers and DJ Steve Porter, coupled with my experience with remixing, composition, and auto-tune, led to experiments with remixing scientists, culminating in Carl Sagan's "A Glori... | ah, coo. |
They are different. Ubuntu for Android is for running a desktop Ubuntu from a phone plugged into a monitor. Meanwhile Ubuntu Touch is the stand-alone mobile OS. | Touch is both desktop and mobile. You have a full mobile OS, but plug it into a monitor and you have a full desktop OS. |
Why in the world would/should Fluke give away ~$800,000 worth of product (that sparkfun would make a ton of money off of) because someone decided to violate their trademark and paid the price for it? We're talking about 2,000 vastly inferior multimeters here.
You may or may not agree with the trademark being issued in ... | But they didn't violate their trademark, there is no use of the name Fluke or their trademark.
"A trademark is a brand name. A trademark or service mark includes any word, name, symbol, device, or any combination, used or intended to be used to identify and distinguish the goods/services of one seller or provider from... |
Filing as an independent doesn't help. I had a friend who was in all ways independent (was basically disowned by her parents) and she couldn't qualify for any FAFSA based aid because she was still required to disclose her parents assets, and her parents refused to sign the forms to do so. | This is the biggest problem for many kids. The system assumes parents are willing to pay a "fair share", when many are absolutely not, for any number of reasons. Those kids are penalized and it is completely unfair. |
Fair enough. I didn't mean to criticize Haskell. In fact, I'm planning to learn it.
I was just surprised that this code was presented as a good example of Haskell's fit to the parsers domain. It would be interesting to see if my perception of this code changes once I get more familiar with the language. | Ah, okay, I misunderstood you. Yes, I think your perception of the code will change. In particular, the operators from Control.Applicative (the ones that look especially like line noise) are critical to making heads or tails of it. When I posted that link, I momentarily forgot that they're not obvious. They make sense ... |
A lot of the smaller drupal modules are unmaintained, buggy, or just plain don't work. Drupal advocates like to brag about the thousands of developers and modules in the ecosystem, but the truth is only the core modules and the most widely used contributed modules are production-worthy. | That, and even core-ish modules are maintained in a manner that's just plain unprofessional (I'm looking at you, Ubercart / Drupal Commerce): "Hey, there's a new version of Drupal Core! Let's drop development of (and support for) the current version of Ubercart that people are actually using and start writing a complet... |
Interesting. I use my tablet landscape except if I'm reading an ebook. Maybe there's something more natural about landscape views, and I've been conditioned to read in portrait by printed material.
On smaller devices I find portrait more natural, possibly due to the one-handed nature of use.
Out of interest: do any of ... | Most of the apps are landscape or are better in landscape (e.g. YouTube) so the decision may not be as natural as it seems at first glance.
Another thing to consider, though, is that a high proportion of books for under 3s are in landscape too (in my experience at least). So maybe the book industry has also had this qu... |
I once built a system that pulled multiple TV channels, encoded them on the fly and rebroadcast via multicast over the office LAN to reporter's desks. This was for a newsroom and would have otherwise required dozens of DVB cable drops (and subscriptions). The DirecTV guy was mighty suspicious that I had a pile of Linux... | I've heard a similar setup is similar in hotels. The hotel gets a box per channel, re-broadcasts them onto coax (same as VCRs used to put eveything on channel 3, but with more channels), and then the hotel TVs can use their built-in tuners. |
He could have at least had the good sense to say something like...
I am skeptical of your position. I wrote an essay on a similar topic back in 1988, here's a link. | Which essay are you referring to ? |
I don't care about the other requirements, but the part where you get in if you have a degree from Stanford or MIT is downright mean. Those schools costs tens of thousands of dollars to attend to per semester but does not make you a better developer than having gone to a cheaper college.
There is no correlation between... | As an MIT grad, and a PhD, I must say.. you've nailed it. Bravo |
Bingo, there is something very attractive about a small community. | therefore every growing community is doomed to die? |
I get an exception when I try to view the page:
ErrorException
Trying to get property of non-object (View: /home/forge/rankopolis.com/app/views/pages/dashboard.blade.php) | Thank you, just caught some bugs in our preview feature and are fixing them now. |
I got the VM up but can't get it to do anything useful.. No next steps after getting the VM up..?? Also, I would be very nice to have a more granular install.. I just spent the day fixing my system after attempting a native install on Ubuntu 13.10 (still have more to repair) A list of prerequisites would be better that... | Once you have the VM up, you can try running demo scripts, located at ~/bayesdb/examples//.py after you've checked out and pulled master from ~/bayesdb and ~/crosscat.
Yes, the install process is a pain in the current release (sorry!), but the next release (almost ready) will be much more friendly and granular to insta... |
Here's a very rough mockup that was put together with some brainstorming, just to give an idea of what the first user introduction might be like.
http://quarkfactor.com/topiat_example.png
| "... Here's a very rough mockup that was put together with some brainstorming, just to give an idea of what the first user introduction might be like ..."
Better. Now make some more that demonstrate your key points and that will also help you start building. Wish you'd put this up first as it starts to put flesh to wo... |
When I used a bicycle I would often change the position depending on the road type. If in a city the beam would be directed down with a larger angle to prevent from blinding the other drivers and pedestrians, as the road itself is lit and the light is used merely to bring attention to yourself. Also the angle varies re... | To elaborate on that last part, aiming down in the city is helpful because you can see far away objects with the street lights already and the bike light is helpful for spotting potholes |
Would be good if this information was on the website. I was trying to find out if it was available for android but couldn't find anything about it (or the app in general). That aside though, this looks really great. | Hi dsyph3r - the app will be available on Android too. I'll follow up with the relevant link tomorrow when it's live. Looking forward to seeing you on on the app! |
KloutCoin? So all the "attention economy" peddlers had it right after all? Then many of us doing old-school value-adding are royally screwed. | Haha KloutCoin. Don't tell that to klout they WILL do it. |
Nowadays drugs work in tandem with biomarkers, so how do you explain what a EGFR mutant individual mean to a layman who has no knowledge about genetics and mutations ? You'll end up with "Drug A works better than B for EGFR wild type mutations but no different for other subsets". And? Is the layman supposed to understa... | > Nowadays drugs work in tandem with biomarkers, so how do you explain what a EGFR mutant individual mean to a layman who has no knowledge about genetics and mutations ? You'll end up with "Drug A works better than B for EGFR wild type mutations but no different for other subsets". And? Is the layman supposed to unders... |
Jobs is a legend. RMS is simply infamous. | Wrong.
Jobs is a legend.
RMS is a pig. |
I think it's a fantastic idea, proposing open standards for books but there's a major incumbent people aren't looking at: academia still doesn't trust the Internet. Students are often limited to one Internet source and the rest hard copied sources. We on HN know how well open licensing goes on the Internet because we... |
academia still doesn't trust the Internet.
Partially because the internet is academia's competition. For centuries, academia was able to keep their knowledge locked away because, while many knew a little, they were the only ones who knew enough (both in breadth and depth) to really teach you anything. Today, the ... |
I understand the security implications, but how is it important for persistence? | Because if you use a hash on your content the chances of a collision are actually much higher than you'd intuitively think they would be and the problem of determining just how likely that is is very closely related to the birthday paradox. |
FYI this appears to be for the ebook edition. | Indeed. They do something similar everday weekday. |
True, you won't get a single thread. You'll get a Threadpool. But we did like the flexibility of the Threadpool for things that had to be done synchronously or were not worth optimizing. It also allowed apps to take advantage of all CPU cores without extra configuration. With the new IIS you have a lot more control ove... | > With the new IIS you have a lot more control over the threading context (you can even run things straight on your IOCP thread if you want).
I am curious about this, can you provide a link or reference with more information? |
Not possible for another 17 years.
I am sure your average 13 year old could tell you that. | I'm sure average 13 year old can't, and doesn't give half rat's ass about it, since average 13 year olds have different interests, but I would be glad to be proven wrong. Any proof? However, more interesting is that you think while you can disenfranchise US citizens at will, somehow you can't change eligibility age for... |
The rabbit-hole goes deeper... Search for gwan with hnsearch, this guy is the losethos of webservers or something. | The way he claims that PHK (of Varnish fame) has "difficulties with C and UNIX" on http://gwan.ch/blog/20120413.html (but at the same time is apparently unaware of "dpkg -L packagename" to find the files installed by a .deb in http://gwan.ch/blog/20121021.html ) is just... jawdropping |
I believe they have quite some involvement with Toyota with regard to transmissions / battery packs or something along those lines. Commercially it seemed a successful deal for them. | Tesla is building the drivetrain and batteries for Toyota's new all-electric Rav4. |
Why the hate?
The project was self-funded from previous successful ventures. That answers your first question.
As for the "SEO consultants" - neither one of us does consulting work, so I don't know where you got that either. We're all quite technical actually. | I am not hating - I am just giving my opinion based on what I read on the first page. I guess SEO engineers is a better way to describe your work (tbh like many people SEO is a killer word that stops my attention i did not click through too see this was a tool not a consultancy) so I apologise for that.
So what is the ... |
Perhaps 'pedantry' would be more idiomatic? :) | Hah, I see what you did there. ;) |
looks good, you might want to look at swipe.js so you can provide a touch optimised version. At its simplest you could use swipe.js so your carousel can be swiped as opposed to clicked when viewing on touch enabled device. | The flexslider plugin I used does support swipe feature.
Demo : http://srikanth.me/modern-resume
http://www.woothemes.com/flexslider/ |
In Canada they are also $150 but Canadian dollars (like $200 NZ) isn't it built in Canada? | yes I think they are built in Canada. Actually I just checked online and it looks like the NZ price is $295. Maybe I just forgot how much it actually cost. |
>modifying a large collection, at the moment, can trigger the entire collection to re-render which can be extremely expensive.
How large is large enough to cause problems? | It really depends on your environment and the complexity of the rendering tied to your collection. For example, on a fast desktop-class system with a collection that renders one element with 1 property, you can probably have hundreds (or maybe even thousands) of items in the collection before you start to notice slowd... |
My favorite kind of graph paper is engineering paper. The grid is printed on the back, so when scanned it isn't visible.
What it looks like in person: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/55/Engineer...
What it looks like scanned: http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_wP_s3WyQd4A/S-s4B-sm4oI/AAAAAAAAAe... | As a college freshman, my physics professor took me aside and said that I'd never pass the course unless I could read my own handwriting. He pointed to several mistakes in my work that were obvious transcription errors from one line to the next.
He sent me to the college bookstore with a shopping list that included a p... |
All the reflection and abuse of mixins are pretty worthy of hate. | That's like saying you hate lisp because of macros or that buffer overrun exploits are reason to hate C. That's just shitty programmers doing shitty programming. |
Yes, but I am talking about python as it is now, not what it might be if it combined the features of other languages. I don't know anything beyond the most basic characteristics of Haskell, so I can't really comment further. | Obviously there are some differences, but type classes are pretty similar to the way python normally works - type classes specify methods that a type has to have. So in the case of 'print', the type specifies that print can be called on anything that implements the method that turns a value into a string. The neat thin... |
As someone who understands networking at the office / rack level (but not the datacenter or nation-wide level), what are the single points of failure that could bring down an entire nationwide network? I would think that things would be setup by regions just to avoid this type of scenario.
At least the 3G networks are ... | At a guess, things like nation wide authentication servers? (I don't know how devices are authenticated in LTE though) |
Discussion here --- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5575841 | thanx |
It already does, but not overtly. The current iPhone YouTube app doesn't read FLV, YouTube re-encoded its whole video library to get on the iPhone. | Are you sure about this? Wouldn't it be easier to write FLV support on the iPhone than to re-encode hundreds of millions of videos? |
For those who don't click through, can you explain the essence of the issue?
Something like, "Your cable company already charges you the world's highest price[1] to deliver data. Now they want to get paid twice for the same data, or they'll put you in the slow lane. Stop the monopoly toll collectors."
[1] http://www.bb... | I'll chime in and say the analogy was lost on me. A slow loading bar with "that didn't feel like a fast lane, did it?" -- no, it didn't feel fast. So what? "Tell your government you support an open internet." How is it that related to a slow loading bar. I agree the OP needs to look at rewording the message. It's conci... |
But I think the biggest winners are deal sites like slickdeals.
The biggest winner by FAR in "last click wins" is Google. Brand queries outconvert just about everything else, because they frequently happen late in the sales cycle after the customer has picked out what they want to buy and now just need navigation to t... | All those little yellow boxes -- the ones many Google searchers think mark the extra quality results (no joke!)
Citation needed. |
"Emacs+SLIME is the de facto standard answer to every Lisp beginner who asks for an IDE"
Is a good advice because emacs is awesome, multipurpose, and free.
But, you have choices. You could use also slimv, the "slime for vim" for example. And Vim is also awesome, multipurpose and free.
If you are a total beginner that d... |
But, you have choices.
Correct. It would be nice if they were appropriately presented to beginners.
like allegro for example that comes with a nice IDE: allegro-composer.
Do you... use Allegro? Do you find it good? Have you used LispWorks?
In the past couple/few years, Franz introduced a single-stepper.[1] ... |
LGB at least. http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-BKgdvjmFK4c/TwN5PxXVH1I/AAAAAAAAAr... | Just LG I think many people would say, actually.
I've come to the point where I think the acronym is silly. I think right now we are up to "LGBTQIAPK". I may be a little out of date on that.
The fact is, some of the issues between the groups in the acronym are shared and some aren't. At one point in time, banding toget... |
Yes. It's explicitly allowed.
>Thanks for being concerned for the quality of HN! We're grateful for users like you. But please don't flag stories only because of a paywall. Accounts that repeatedly do so lose their flagging rights. You should flag stories because of content, not provenance.
>The HN guidelines explicitl... | Thank you. I didn't see it in the faq. Is it something one could suggest mandatory tagging for? Like [video] and [pdf], since a curious looking link might not be worth clicking if a) you need to wait for it to download or play, or b) you have to pay or go and hunt search engines to track down the content.
That way the ... |
Actually, the greatest trick of waging war is to convince people to kill other people, and that's done with plain ol' operant conditioning: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operant_conditioning
Read "On Killing: The Psychological Cost of Learning to Kill in War and Society." The author, Dave Grossman, is an Army Ranger and... | It improved with attempts to dehumanise the enemy (Germans -> krauts -> Gooks) and the distance with which you face them (hand-hand in a trench -> carpet bombing of jungle)
It has swung back the other way with soldiers have a live view of the target in a sight/TV picture - the proportion of willing to kill has reduced. |
Maybe they only tweaked the free? | my apps are currently ranked #2 and #4 in their respective categories but looking at usage stats I highly highly doubt that is factored in. Seems to be downloads only. |
Fowler has a habit of inventing "special terms" for what people have long considered "programming", and people get sucked into some fundamentalism. I don't like how the author of this article appeals to authority when trying to justify the use of a service locator over DI.
> So if Martin Fowler says that it is possible... | > So if Martin Fowler says that it is possible to use a service locator instead of DI in unit testing, then who are you to argue otherwise?
There are good arguments against a service locator - one of them is presented here:
http://blog.ploeh.dk/2010/02/03/ServiceLocatorisanAnti-Patte...
Another argument again the servi... |
Try our Woobius Eye tool, too, it's pretty neat for collaborative visual work.
See: http://woobiuseye.com
And a video of how it works: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vhox59Ia5yc | Thanks for that link. It looks promising, but the canvas is just too small. |
As I go along...
1) First thing I care about is localising the jobs to my area. I live in London, and most jobs on this site are irrelevant. I was only able to localise to London from the "Startup Companies" tab.
2) Only one job in London, but oh well, I guess it's still a new site. Surprised not to see Songkick on the... | Thanks for the feedback! (All of it)
A couple things that I hope will help:
- To search a location, use the modifier "in". So, the search [in London] will parse jobs that have London in their location field (we have a pretty good amount of structured data).
- Right now, the map only shows company "headquarters." Many s... |
Yeah, combined with the above comment, I think this is a good idea. This was actually my initial thought (but with 2 friends) early on, but I wanted to experiment with the idea of only having a paid version because I believe paid apps get more usage (I might be crazy here). | From my experience free trumps paid unless the paid app is promoted by apple/lots of blogs. You may get more return users with a paid app (since they shelled out the cash they will probably want to get their money's worth) but if you're trying to build a user base and especially if your app relies on one, which yours s... |
Sheltered, entitled and delayed adulthood. You give every indication of all three in these short comments. I suggest you put down the sociology book, forget your dreams of having the next (insert app clone) and get job at the nearest Wal-Mart. Life happens differently and faster when your opportunities are limited. | Would you care to elaborate on your assessment, or do you just want to bash people who want to live in a better world? |
The best creations are the ones inventors are making for themselves. I was reading the interview with Steve Wozniak in Founders at Work, and what most struck me was how he talked about Apple's biggest innovations as being things either he or Steve Jobs made for themselves, because they wanted their computers to be bett... | The best creations are the ones inventors are making for themselves.
I agree with this, and this is something many successful entrepreneurs have said. But here's the dilemma I was pointing out (maybe not so clearly) in my previous comment: After your initial success, when your customers clearly want you to add widgets ... |
Yeah, the space really helped.
With regards to meeting investors, it's actually fairly easy. It's their job to meet with you. I would recommend meeting with the young VC's at firms first. You can also find investors at most tech events. | 100% agreed. Lots of newbies think it's hard, but the best investors usually try to meet as many people as possible.
We haven't raised a series A yet, but the feedback is quite useful. We also get free advice and introductions to people that can help us prove our thesis. |
https://github.com/h2o/h2o | I don't think that was the "Hey, look! Haskell beats nginx!" one, but very interesting nonetheless! :) |
I agree with most of what you're saying here, particularly the historical roots of the design and the post does acknowledge the importance of the interface the BMW Motorrad brand.
But I think you make a false assumption about the potential order of operations - I'm not worried about signaling a lane change when I'm in ... | If you're not already covering the brake, there is no penalty due to putting the turn signal there. In my opinion, adding a linked-braking system to the pedal would do more to improve rider safety than moving the turn signal controls. |
Consider programmers that you respect; why do you respect them?
The expertise and dedication that I consider respect-worthy have not been deemed so by others.
most people don't just set out to be a respectable person in the abstract; they work to excel at particular things in their life.
Again, you assume a meritocracy... | My apologies. I did not think you expected respect free of charge. Your description of your job as that of a "code monkey" suggested to me that you were at the most entry level of programming work, and had yet to "pay your dues", as it were.
Since you've been working hard at becoming a good programmer, I suspect you'd ... |
I'll try lay-mans this for you. Time doesn't really slow down.
You have a reference frame, your reference frame simply describes something along the lines of "where you are". "Where you are" could be how close you are to something massive (a star, a planet) or how fast you are moving.
If you have a watch on your own wr... | Yep, this was the most difficult thing to grasp when I started learning this stuff. I thought that somehow the body knows to slow things down when it is in motion. But when you think through it, it is easy. Its all in the reference frames. Imagine yourself going from Earth to Alpha Centauri in a constant velocity. In S... |
Everyone that says this doesn't know how hard it was to get back then. I started looking for a way to buy it when it was at a buck fifty, and it took me until it was at four dollars before I finally was able to do the transaction (in cash in person at a cafe in Toronto with a off-grid cryptoanarchist).
The easiest way ... | Ease of purchase was definitely an issue. When it was $1/coin there was a guy selling them through PayPal, maximum order size of 20 bitcoins. So I bought 20 because it was easy and it reminded me of some cool Neal Stephenson stories. Shortly after, PayPal shut him down and I didn't immediately see any other easy way to... |
If you observe carefully, Star Trek doors seem to detect intent rather than proximity. Sometimes people are just in front of them talking and as soon as they finish and want to get through, the door magically knows it needs to open.
On the other hand, when they are facing someone through the door and want to close it, ... | You just need a director that opens and closes the doors at the right moments. |
This is a desktop mail client. It is also a web-mail you can run on a server somewhere if you so choose. It depends on how it is deployed.
Contrasting Mailpile with other tools, one difference is that the basic design is that of a search engine, not a tool for reading mail from folders. Most current desktop mail client... | I've been working on an extensible console-based mail-client for the past while. (http://lumail.org/)
I abhor the idea that clients only ever interact with messages from a single folder. |
Amazon hosted all these servers for free? | All of you should know that this was paid with campaign dollars, not government funds. To pretend otherwise is an incredible indictment of our education system and an example of the assault on k-12 civics courses. |
I have not downvoted you but can tell you why others are. You implied equivalence in the two systems, which is nonsense. India's issues are due to corruption. The US immigration system is instead faced with a very high load, inadequate resources, and a great many people trying to game it, which all cause it to be qu... | Agree. The two systems aren't equivalent. The U.S system is worse. You can't even bribe your way to what you want. |
> Just out of curiosity, how did you get out and what are you working on these days?
I quit and went to grad school. I'm now a computer science professor. | Awesome. |
Now this is the first good argument I've heard. The fact that pretty much all the people using crap browsers are running Windows means that any effort to get people onto better browsers ought to be focused on the Windows platform.
I think you may have just convinced me. When it is being presented as "Windows killer",... | As a Web developer, I don't care if Windows lives or dies. But I want Internet Explorer killed, and the sooner the better. It's costing me and my clients a fortune, in time and in frustration. If it weren't for Dan Cederholm and John Resig IE might have driven me to drink by now. [1]
[1] I should say "John Resig and t... |
No, there's actually a good amount of evidence that poverty does in fact cause low IQs. For instance the divergence between the IQs of East Germans and West Germans during the partition, and the way they converged again after the Cold War.
It is true that people with low IQs will tend to become poorer (though conscien... | Be careful about causality and correlation. Poverty probably does not "cause" low-IQ, but poverty is a good indicator for low-IQ due to correlation. |
There are two important pieces to your Tent identity.
1: Your Entity (this is the url you're referring to. I could be https://jonathan.tent.is and then change to https://titanous.com). Think of entities like a name. You can change it but you really want to think carefully first. Other Tent servers know you by your enti... | So if I wanted to just my own domain, and not leejoramo.tent.is what do I do? I am assuming that it would be something like this:
<link href="https://leejoramo.tent.is rel="????" />
and how to I configure things on the tent.is account? |
I would be curious to read the downsides of systemd : i.e why are some people still complaining about it ?
I'm personally using systemd since I switched to arch and never ran into any problem, but I'm just using a regular laptop so I'm guessing it's different on a server configuration. | Question already came up a few days ago in a different thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8672761
> Can someone TL;DR the problem with systemd? |
Agreed. You don't even need to add any gems or do any rails magic for this to work. In your controller:
def edit
@aws_credentials = current_user.aws_credentials
end
def update
current_user.aws_credentials.update_attributes(
params[:aws_credentials].slice(:a, :b, :c)
)
end | Don't forget `destroy`. |
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