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One interesting thing I learned from this is how highly correlated mortality from heart disease and cancer are. They're quite different types of disease, but perhaps what they have in common is that they're diseases of civilization in the sense of being caused by de facto "toxins" (I don't mean this literally) of indus... | cancer and blood flow are very closely related: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angiogenesis |
The low-end Alienware box has specs that don't meet the minimum requirements for Batman Arkham Knight, one of the few AAA titles coming out this year that supports SteamOS. And it costs more than either the Xbox One or Playstation 4, both of which will run Arkham Knight fine. I think Steam Machines are a failure waitin... | Yeah, you basically are buying a PC-in-a-box in order to get AAA PC games. At which point...why not buy a PC and hook it up to the TV? |
This is effectively the software-only equivalent of a console launch.
Is anyone else skeptical that they can motivate publishers to spend time/money porting their games to the Linux platform?
Valve certainly has a better chance than most at pulling this off (and likely enough user/market data to make this seem like a v... | I wrote a response to your comment but it became rather long so I decided to make it into a blog post instead.
http://mortdeus.blogspot.com/2013/09/linux-core-component-po... |
This article is both accurate and highly misleading. The author is correct that there is very little reliable evidence that links glutamic acid and/or glutamate to health problems. The backlash against MSG as a result of the "Chinese Restaurant Syndrome" craze, was not rooted in scientific inquiry.
However, MSG is not ... | You hit the nail on the head. For most of us, it's not the MSG that causes the problem. It's what comes with it. For starters it's the sodium. For me it's the 1000 calories in a monster Doritos bag, or the 3000 calories when I eat three times what I should at a Chinese takeout. |
I doubt the lazy people who haven't moved to python3 will ever do a decent port of python 2. Python3 has been out for over six years now, with warning before that.
I'd much rather bet on the python developers who are shipping software. All major python libraries have been ported to python 3, many of them for years. ... | Reminds me of Ruby, IMHO the version jump from 1.8.7 to 1.9.* killed it. Different scoping rules made porting a non-trivial task, many packages have never been ported to 1.9 and one of the early 1.9.* major releases was extremely buggy...
Nowadays hardly anybody seems to use Ruby for new projects... |
Can you? The CPU alone is unbelievably expensive. Two high-end GPUs are not cheap either. I would be interested in seeing the cost of a truly equivalent generic PC build. ("Truly" equivalent meaning no non-Xeon CPUs and other "almost as good" parts, something that's all too commonly done with Mac Pro comparisons.) | Right now I think you can't, unless you can get your hands on a cheap dual socket motherboard for the new Xeons. Even then, the PCIE SSD will get you over the limit.
I really like the new Mac Pro, even if it's not upgradeable... |
If you are just starting, you should have the simplest setup - everything on one server - and scale it only when it becomes necessary. Premature scalability adds complexity and slows down your iterations.
My setups usually consist of an nginx serving static content and proxying applications requests (doing gzip, etc). ... | How do you protect against single point of failure and total data loss? Do you do frequent offsite backups? |
I am a scientist, and I have seen a lot of terrible code. Most scientists have no formal training in computer science or coding. Many advisors don't place much value in having their grad students take such classes, though even a short language-specific introduction class would vastly improve their students' productivit... | > "taking a thoughtful approach to the design of the software can vastly improve your productivity in the long run"
I think, taking a "thoughtful approach" is the key to a lot of different practices. "Best practice" as used by most people, in many different crafts and arts, is a method to avoid thinking on what it is y... |
The high end of the PC laptop spectrum has been neglected for years. I guess the market is just too small to care about. I have no idea where they're taking their profits if they're pushing down on the low-end prices too.
I've been looking for a new laptop for over 2 years, and nobody's been selling anything worthy of ... | I think Dell m3800 might be what you are looking for. Not sure how they will price it though. Specs seem pretty nice.
http://www.dell.com/learn/us/en/04/campaigns/precision-m3800... |
Investing money, creating new products, and all the other things we do are wonderful games and can be a lot of fun, but it's important to remember that it's all just a game.
I feel like this sentiment is very common, but is implicitly stating that all of the other things, family, friends, personal health etc... are not... | You think Steve Jobs lived a meaningful life because he sold some fucking electronic toys to rich people? You really think that's what matters? |
The biggest issue I have with Chrome is how aggressive it's been about linking Google IDs with the browser. I've lost data twice by bugs related to not having a linked ID.
Please Google, understand this; I don't want my browser linked with my Google account. | Chromium does not include the Google bloat and works flawlessly. I don't know whether it will make you lose data, but personally never had any issues with it. |
This is complicated.
1. rapgenius is probably the least spammy lyrics site on the internet, and definitely so amongst those on the first page of search results. As a consumer, I would not have a problem with Google, et al giving rapgenius results a special algorithmic bump to move them up. I also know that this is an o... | I can't tell if Hacker News hates African-American culture, or just white boys who take part in it. If they were annotating Opera Librettas and spoke in Victorian English, I'm sure HN would love them.
It's not like they are complete posers. They got investment from Nas. |
The comments thus far show exactly what is wrong with HN. HN has become an echo chamber where we all love certain people/companies/ideas and immediately dismiss any counter viewpoint.
Instead of immediately discrediting the linked article because they're "haters" or "threatened", try reading it and understanding their... | I hear you, but I think the headline really invites the strong counter-response. The use of the word "dangerous" is provocative to say the least. |
> I don't care about being as strong as I can be.
You should.
From the introduction to Rippetoe's Starting Strength:
“Physical strength is the most important thing in life. This is true whether we want it to be or not. As humanity has developed throughout history, physical strength has become less critical to our daily... | let's face the obvious (actually insanelly obvious). Money is the most important thing in life. If you are strong and poor, you will live less. |
While civil forfeiture is scary, my (very very brief) stint doing criminal law as a public defender showed me that there's also a bigger side of this -- seizing the assets of individuals who are charged with a crime so that they cannot attain private counsel, make bail, or receive any creature comforts while incarcerat... | Why is this? I mean, are the police forces so (money) broke that they've needed to make up the difference by becoming this way? Or are they truly corrupt (I find this unlikely)? |
More people really need to watch this video. http://xiph.org/video/vid2.shtml | Thanks for sharing! I really enjoyed the video, though I didn't understand everything (english is not my mothertongue). |
I can't stand these coffee capsules. The amount of waste they generate is absurd for a process which should really only produce negligible compostable waste (coffee grounds and perhaps coffee filters). Plus, I doubt the plastic capsules are recyclable, since they permanently contain the grounds once used (at least, t... | The companies themselves are usually the ones that provide the recycling.
For me, the problem is price (and dependence on a single vendor - which is connected :)) |
We don't need an NSA or CIA or any other spy agency. I know I'm an extremist on government secrets, but I think there should be none. Nothing should be outside the reach of a FOIA request. In my ideal world all government officials' documents and emails would be made publicly accesible in real time, they're working for... | There are probably things that still need to remain secret, just like corporations need secret to protect their business. However, to insure a minimum level of transparency, the government should clearly SAY what kind of things are going to be secret, so that the scope is clearly defined (for example: locations of nucl... |
"OS X Mountain Lion arrives this summer. With all-new features inspired by iPad, the Mac just keeps getting better and better."
Am I the only person that doesn't want an ipad on the desktop? | I actually like the idea of it being both (and and ipad becoming a desktop) Launchpad for ipad like utility, the normal desktop for desktop things, have both on both systems. Lets be honest here, we are moving away from a central computing device model, to a model with many peripheral devices. I'd like it if they all... |
Slightly offtopic: I live in a city in Brazil whose heritage is basically german so I know a lot of people trying to learn german here. A particular friend of mine used to work for an IT german company and went to Germany a couple of times and he said every time he tried to speak their language they'd frown at him or f... | Thanks to you folks who commented on this! I really appreciate it :-) |
Is anyone's choice of distro influenced by the type of servers they find themselves working on?
For example, I find myself doing alot of work on REHL systems in the cloud, and thusly run Fedora (so I don't have to figure out where config files, etc. are kept in other distros). | Yes. CentOS minimal for servers, Fedora for desktop |
The real problem is the disconnect between math and "math".
"math" is the game of rote memorization that kids play in school where they try to memorize arcane rules that seemed to have been pulled from some greek dudes ass with no explanation.
Math is a legendary construct whispered about as a hypothetical possibility ... | We do do that in English, that's why most people with Degrees in English can't write a convincing piece of prose to save their life.
But they can tell you all sorts of arbitrary rules about English, and probably something about iambic pentameter. |
Since there are so many Duoling fans here, I have to ask: am I the only one who finds the app almost unusable because there's no theory?
For German I used to try the exercises on my commute, but suddenly the app expected me to use "dem" instead of "der" without any explanation. I can't be the only one with this problem... | I'm like you that I prefer to learn the theory before brute force memorizing. Just get a good grammar book and use it besides Duolingo, and you're golden. |
Pao had thousands of people calling her a ching-chong cunt. Why do you think your comment is relevant to this thread? | Like other people display Obama as a non-american, Donald Trump as Hitler and so on. As a public character you should be able to handle that. |
Anyone using Perl for new projects and why? | Yes. I'm too lazy to write code, so CPAN means I just pick the pieces I need and glue them together with Perl. |
Could be a MBP replacement for developers. The only thing is those of us running on OS X, how is Windows 10?
I love my command line and linux like commands and tools.
- Homebrew
- Bash scripts
- Docker (Windows 10 currently not supported)
- Vagrant
I just feel the tooling for MS isn't in the direction I am.
I still ha... | You might be interested in the most recent episode of Shop Talk Show (http://shoptalkshow.com/episodes/186-dave-goes-windows/) and associated blog posts.
One notable thing from the blog side was significant issues with RoR, but otherwise I think there's a lot of good. |
I often read such articles from women, but never from men. After looking deeply at myself and how the world around me acts, I feel that it is really true: Women ARE evaluated mostly by their looks. Women who look good, wear good clothes, have a good makeup, will get what they want much more easily then others. To some ... | Let's put it another way - if you teach a girl that her good looks are super super important, and she's bombarded with adverts telling her ways to improve, and images of people on TV that are portrayed vastly superior to her physically, then she is being set up to feel that no matter what she does, she's never good eno... |
Secondary math education, for me in the UK, didn't deal with anything outside of elementary algebra, Euclidean geometry, some statistics, and relatively simple calculus. Nobody talked to us about imaginary or complex numbers, or bayes theorem, decision theory, or non-trivial mechanics problems until I was in college (a... | > So many ideas seem closed to mortals because of the nature of mathematics.
Which is why everyone, but especially programmers, should learn a lot more math. |
Hacker News double standard:
* A company like Zynga who runs a completely legal business and employ thousands of people with good wages and benefits by copying game concepts is generally considered evil.
* A torrent tracker or file locker that makes a handful of employees rich by ripping off thousands of artists, music... | It's not a matter of good and evil, it's a matter of due process. |
That's a very good point and very observant.
I too am highly skeptical of ALL of these claims.
My main gripe with Soylent (ever since I first saw it here on HN a month ago) is that they are making cooking seem like a horrible chore that nobody wants to do.
Shopping is convenient because I go whenever I have time and on... | You aren't required to buy it or use it. Cooking and shopping is a horrible chore for lots of people. Those are the people this is marketed for. "I am not the target market for this product" is not a problem with the product. |
Took a job in Bellevue in April and moved from Philadelphia to Seattle. So far it's a been an interesting experience. I've encountered many people hostile to software engineers in general. A bunch of people immediately ask if I work for Amazon with a hint of disdain after I state my occupation. So it hasn't felt super ... | I can't speak to every demographic, but I've lived and worked on the Eastside as a software dev for 15 some years now, and I've never had that reaction from anyone. Far from it, probably a third or better of the households I go to church with, or who my kids go to school with, have at least one engineer in the househol... |
And she said that one of the things that happens is that women don’t even think they’re qualified for something because it’s advertised in competitive language. The language of competition not only doesn’t appeal to many women, it actually puts them off.
This doesn't make sense to me because easily the most competitive... | > Why are women turned off by competitiveness in CS, but not in medicine?
From my experience, the primary thing driving those who aspire to work in the medical field is not so much salary as employment security. They compete early on (in college and in medical school) so they wouldn't have to compete later when they en... |
I'm currently working at a school district in Lancaster, PA.
We have gone with Linux laptops for all of our students. Even more, we've given them root access.
We chose this because of exactly the points that many people are bringing up in these comments.
What does the iPad offer to the pedagogical process? Not really t... | This program was mentioned at POSSCON earlier this week as one of the ways open source is improving society. |
"But technology is not neutral – and neither is code nor numbers. There are human, subjective judgements lurking behind the apparent objectivity offered by algorithms and the “user-friendly” operating systems. These technologies perform almost magically, while at the same time enabling all sorts of organizations to eas... | The obvious low hanging fruit is helping humans avoid error. But you have to actually be prepared to admit error for this to happen. You have to be ... cognitively dissonant enough to treat error as just another information flow.
The "software end game" looks a lot like the show "How It's Made". Frankly, most of that i... |
Sigh. I don't know whether I'm alone in being saddened that many of the excellent thinkers of our time, who once might have spent their lives probing the the very limits of our comprehension in their field, now end up comfortably turning their minds to the services of (in the long term) rather short sighted commercial ... | What if you consider the application a trojan horse for doing interesting things which are useful well outside the supposed domain of application?
I think the trope of "the best minds working on ad clicks" is perhaps not giving people enough credit.
Hackers and academics always find a way to screw around and work on in... |
Alright, let's do a group experiment. Choose one of the links below:
http://www.google.com/search?q=pressure+cooker+backpacks (insecure)
https://www.google.com/search?q=pressure+cooker+backpacks (secure)
and report back if you get a visit from a squadron of men dressed in green wearing helmets and holding guns. If an... | Sorry, didn't see this before I posted but this was exactly my though, yet done on a much larger scale with the assistance of bots. |
Looks like great fun!
I doubt it has close resemblance with medieval long sword fighting, though :-)
It must have been a lot slower fighting in leather, chainmail or plate armor than in this ultra light modern equipment.
And, I assume a medieval fighter would take far smaller chances than these modern hobbyists knowing... | I've seen a video of a big Polish swordfighting battle (you can probably find it on google), people in full armor and swords. What I could spot is that swords are completely ineffective against armor; swords glance off, are unable to penetrate armor, and just bend. I'd use a mace or club and beat people's head in. Whic... |
The enthusiasm around React is infectious and I'm thinking about integrating it into one of my projects but I can't quite tell what exactly it's supposed to be used for. Is it only for SPAs or is it reasonable to consider react when you just want to add some interactions and dynamism to a page that was rendered server ... | It's an idea for organizing the components of user interfaces, regardless of the platform. |
Out of interest, how many people here actually use async methods? Excluding being forced to by a library.
They haven't revolutionized my code at all. I can't decide if I'm too stupid to realize when to use them, or if they're really just a bit useless for most normal code. I can see the point to it, it's just that most... | The style is great if you have a main thread you need to keep fast and responsive. |
Dude... the small, light gray text... are you trying to ruin our eyesight? | I'm guessing he changed it - looks fine here (text is #111) |
Somewhat tangentially, I feel Twitter sort of stopped innovating after they got big. If Google as a search engine can do Gmail, Glass and driverless cars, why has Twitter made tweeting the only business they do? | Google didn't really go full on expansive product company until after their IPO.
Maybe twitter will do the same. |
Maybe I was raised by a bunch of rabid dogs...
But after reading the cached page... I really don't understand what the creator did wrong?
He was a guy that I a lot of people can identify with, whom is publishing a book about his experiences?
Is seduction intrinsically bad? | There's paragraphs to write on the subject, but in short, yes this was very bad. Details here: http://caseymalone.com/post/53339539674/this-is-not-fucking-... |
I don't really understand how they can have such a radical view... If the pirate bay were to be the only media distribution system left after all of the traditional "Hollywood" corporations went out of business (b/c of the pirate bay), there would be no more movies which the pirate bay could distribute. I don't know ab... | if you're a consequentialist then you only care about outcomes. Every economic analysis I've seen indicates piracy rate does not affect the returns to creators. |
I'd like to switch to !GoDaddy, and Namecheap seems popular. Are there any useful pro/cons I should know about Namecheap before switching? | Tried to read their Terms of Service, long as hell |
But, but, but... they're not democratic! If only they'd put more power in the hands of the common man, they too could enjoy such luminous choices for statesmen as McCain vs. Obama, Bush II vs. Kerry, Bush II vs Gore, Dole vs. Clinton, Bush I vs. Clinton...
...we gotta keep saber rattling that our way is better than the... | Chomsky has a great quote about this: In the U.S. there is basically one party - The Business Party. It has two factions, called Democrats and Republicans, which are somewhat different but carry out variations of the same policies. By and large, I am opposed to those policies, as is most of the population.
I'm not agai... |
$100k isn't successful, it's the bare minimum as a professional. If you're an engineer, all that's required to earn that much is show up on time and be good at your job.
The cold, hard truth is if you don't earn at least that much, you either suck at your job or suck at negotiating. Your bosses and many of your peers... | My lifestyle-biz friends working over wifi at the beach in Thailand are making 1/4 - 1/2 million/year. Just like any other job, you just have to know what you're doing and do it well. |
We need a Butlerian Jihad against surveillance.
You know what will never stop this? Posts on hacker news. Letters to your congressman (LG can donate a fuqton more to his re-election campaign than you can). Voting with your dollar (people who know what a privacy policy is are few and far between).
You know what will? Ta... | >You know what will never stop this? Posts on hacker news. Letters to your congressman (LG can donate a fuqton more to his re-election campaign than you can).
Plus it's not just LG that wants that kind of data. It's the government itself. |
We are in the process of mitigating a large scale DDoS attack against our global DNS platform. We expect service to return to normal very shortly. Stay tuned and let me know if you have any questions. ted@namecheap.com | do you have ETA? |
No.
I believe in the concept of a natural monopoly for most utilities though - Building outside plant is horrendously expensive - it to me makes as much sense to have multiple cable providers as it does multiple sets of power/telephone/water/sewer infrastructure.
I'd even like to see a fewer wireless carriers (consider... | > it to me makes as much sense to have multiple cable providers as it does multiple sets of power/telephone/water/sewer infrastructure.
That's how things work here in Brazil, some cities have 2 DSL providers or 2 cable providers. Big capitals may have both, and fiber. Also, there are a bunch o local radio providers.
It... |
This attitude that everyone should be a programmer bothers me. The designer's job is to design, and it's the programmer's job to integrate the designs.
Why don't you learn photoshop and how to do basic design? That way you don't need to ask the designer to do minor tweaks.
It doesn't work. If you've never used version ... | I think that enra meant that git is a tool for people who are part of a team and modify files for the same project. Just like you know how to handle files and directories, you would know how this kind of tool works. But you are definitely right : the tool should be easy and quick to learn and understand. |
Very cool, but I sometimes worry that the illusion of safety is more dangerous than the original danger itself.
In Boulder, where I live, several crosswalks were identified as being particularly dangerous for pedestrians, and pedestrian crossing signs with big flashing lights were installed at these locations over the ... | I walk a lot and the times where I've been nearly hit by a car have ALWAYS been at crosswalks and traffic lights (where the pedestrian light is green and cars should be stopping).
Crosswalks are a problem because you can't predict car behaviour: some will stop. Some will completely ignore them (for reasons unknown). If... |
It seems odd that Buffett and the WSJ would call this price gouging. There are high prices brought about by low supply and high demand. Sounds like Econ 101 to me. Am I missing something? | Successful businessmen only like supply-and-demand when it benefits them.
They squall like babies when it works against them, however.
And, this will only work until the hotel goes out of business. Then the AirBnB crowd will lift their rates, as well. |
A little while ago I would've agreed heartily with Peter. Now, as a "born" software engineer with a decent portfolio (now age 21) recently frustratated by a fruitless job search, turned down again and again (I believe rightfully so) because the competition all had college degrees, I beg to differ.
A good college degree... | You're talking about vastly different fields. If you want to be a scientist and study DNA, college seems like a great option. For computer science? Not so much.
You probably feel like you've missed out on something really important but once you actually get to college, you'll realise that it isn't as great as it is por... |
I wish people would stop calling this a hack. It's not a hack, it was a cyberwarfare. I know someone who was working on the team trying to recover from this attack, and Sony Pictures is basically fucked. Their IT infrastructure has been utterly destroyed, meaning they can't even pay their employees, pay their vendor... | Yay, another confusing term without an agreed upon definition! |
You know what the problem here is? There is no material difference between a 10 person game studio and a 3000 person game studio. Zynga likes to pretend that their Z-Cloud gives them an advantage over their competitors. Maybe it does in terms of operations, but games isn't an operations business, it's a hits business. ... | What does "FUD" mean in this context? |
doesn't really work for me with Chrome on Windows 7 - an image flashes for a split-second, then it's back to "Finding pointer" (I'm not even touching my mouse) | Doesn't work in Chrome but the 'right mouse click' hack works.
There are likely some good opportunities for this code however speed of response may be a problem? Runs a little slow on my PC. |
As a front end web developer, I am not really sure I understand any "advantages" to VIM or VI, or any command-line based edit for that matter. Sure, they might be great if you're doing scripting, messing around with the back end, or dong DB stuff. But for me, writing day-to-day JS, HTML, CSS code, VIM seems like a very... | Your problem with vim is that you don't grok vi: http://stackoverflow.com/a/1220118/885262 |
It's a genuine problem and has been growing gradually worse for a while. I think the cause is simply growth. When a good community grows, it becomes worse in two ways: (a) more recent arrivals don't have as much of whatever quality distinguished the original members, and (b) the large size of the group makes people be... | Good. Something needs to be done. Every time I click on a link about a start up or a new site, I see the negative feedback and I cringe at the thought of putting anything I do on here only to reach an inevitable fate that could permanently damage the reputation of the project during its launch phase. |
You know, I've been messing around with Java little lately. Nothing too fancy. It's actually not a bad language -- with a modern IDE it's actually pretty quick and breezy to work with.
If the standard library was cleaned up and the warts were all removed and filled in, even if it broke compatibility (call it Java X or ... | Lots of things in the library have multiple ways of doing things. Eg File, NIO.
Generally if you use the new class you're in for a nicer time.
I agree about the regex literals. JavaScript does it right. |
>This is overwhelming. Even when you always hear the claims about we knew this was going on, somehow it is still shocking when you see it all laid out infront of you with screenshots and the capabilities described.
It has become a bit of a pet peeve of mine recently to see self-aggrandizing comments from users around t... | From the slides, apparently a node in
the system just connects at an ISP
or peering site and grabs all the
packets. Then they essentially 'parse'
the packets to TCP/IP sessions, logical
user sessions, e-mail messages, etc.
Then back at HQ, can send
the node what are essentially 'filters'
to return 'alerts' and the ass... |
Satire works when you hold folly up to ridicule. Central banking is possibly the greatest human invention since sanitation. The U.S. central banking system ranks among the finest of its kind.
Bitcoin handles 7 transactions a second on a good day, has no reliable institutional actors, and I can neither pay taxes nor sat... | Satire: "the use of humour, irony, exaggeration, or ridicule to expose and criticize people's stupidity or vices".
What is being held up to ridicule are the various criticisms of bitcoin, not central banking. For example the article quotes an economist saying that paper money is evil, satirising Krugman's article abou... |
What I don't get is why it's necessary to have comedy to get people engaged? What is it that news requires the 'chaser' of comedy? I don't think we can attribute it to people being base/vulgar. Why can't a serious, well researched news program do well? Why does there have to be a chaser to make it successful? | I would speculate that the audience for TV news these days might not be looking for well-researched news. |
If you pay a man by the hour, he'll work a lot of hours. If you pay him by the brick, he'll lay a lot of bricks.
These "games" are basically the equivalent of counting lines of code or checkins. We're measuring poor proxies instead of the things we're actually interested in. The solution isn't an arms race to build ... | I'm in favor of ending the cap on representatives in the House. The House was never meant to be capped at 435. |
No one likes surveillance but can anyone provide a better/cheaper option to prevent large scale crime like terrorist attack? | Don't have a foreign policy so shitty that people are willing to kill themselves flying planes into buildings just to attack you?
Hell, I bet we'd save money. |
I "Google" less and less for search results, as they become increasingly crap. They are mostly best for "big name" items; also, the prominence of StackOverflow means that some computer technology queries still work pretty well.
These days, I'm fortunate when I know specifically enough what I want that I can jump strai... | > I "Google" less and less for search results
Google is absolutely unusable for some search terms that are not part of the primary association of the term. Try searching for "caravan" in a query not related to buying caravans, or caravan holiday parks (I was searching for a particular book that featured a caravan). If ... |
IMHO, this list contains only BS books. Tim Ferriss? Seth Godin? Malcolm Gladwell? Please. This is a list for those who need self-help and "motivation" books. Only exception is Livingston's F@W. The rest is pretty much junk.
Please allow me to write down my personal list for those who love to learn:
- The Art of Comput... | That's interesting, because I liked a bunch on the original list but I'd probably consider most of the books you listed to be junk. To me this looks like the kind of list you'd put together if you wanted to look intelligent, but weren't actually intellectually curious. The only common thread among the books you've list... |
I've been hellbanned here on HN on at least three different IP addresses and accounts...that I am aware of. Probably more.
In each case nothing I'd ever said would be considered trolling by any rational observer. Here on HN, however, as with most communities where you start to recognize the regulars (tptacek, raganwald... | The fact that you consider the observation obvious, is a sign that you were possibly trolling. You were probably being intellectually too lazy to make your point without resorting using tactics like calling your own opinions seemingly obvious.
It is not obvious that increased competition leads to declining margins. O... |
We're assuming these are fake, and that someone just got hold of their Facebook and Twitter passwords.
On the other hand, I notice the same statement has appeared on their blog. So maybe it's real. Or maybe their blog was compromised too.
The really suspicious thing is that they don't seem to have confirmed it to a r... | Is there a systematic process to follow before being allowed to kill a submission?
The feeling of censorship is real, although unintended. |
Websites are growing in their nuisance of DOM-level UI breaking. I'm increasingly using the Inspector dev tool just to delete entire chunks of elements on websites.
"Oh, you need me to click LIKE on your page? ... Deleted!"
"Oh, your news article is 25% of the width of the page and the other 75% is navigation, ads, and... | Extensions like Readability and Clearly let you read just the main content on the page. It would be nice if they had an option to automatically load pages like in that mode. Besides avoiding all the clutter websites put, the pages would also load faster that way. |
In the time since that comment was written (just under 5 years), Linux replaced most graphics drivers with ones based on in-kernel modesetting and the DRI2 interface. This was done without breaking applications. So, the assertion that changing the video driver model would be disruptive is kind of disproven by reality. ... | > "This isn't it. Is there one?"
I don't think there can be one. Even if one existed, its value would be questionable since the rest of us are unable to prove or disprove the claims therein, seen as we don't have access to the nt kernel code. We're stuck with uninformed rants by microsoft's evangelists, unfortunately. |
Honestly, I don’t understand why it’s so difficult to create a camera chip not susceptible to any software hack. The camera sensor needs electrical current to work. Simply place the LED inline or in parallel to the camera and you are done. Any time current is sent to the camera sensor, the LED cant help it but light up... | One of the best ways is to have a dedicated "Chip Enable" pin on the camera module. You then connect an LED to the state of this pin and when the Chip Enable pin is "Hight" the LED is turned on. However, there needs to be additional circuitry (an extra pin) and some work to ensure proper voltage levels are met for bo... |
I can't help but feel like these brothers are also victims here. Of course, their victimhood is nothing like what they inflicted on the people of Boston and the marathoners, but they're victims nonetheless. Humans are glorified chemical reaction vessels; somehow, they ended up going down a path that led them here. W... | Denying people agency for their actions is just as dangerous and dehumanizing as vilifying them as inhuman monsters. They are human monsters who are responsible for their own actions. |
If this merger goes thru, (and the AnitTrust people would have to be really asleep at the wheel for that) two things are certain:
1) Americans can expect some of the worst Cable price gouging they have ever seen
2) NetFlix, Amazon Prime et al will become really popular as a result of all the customers saying "FU Comcas... | Show me how Comcast and Time Warner Compete? They have 100% non-overlapping service areas.
If anything, I'd expect prices to stay the same, because they have far greater leverage over the other media companies. |
What's amazing to me is the cognitive dissonance required to make the leap from Adria publicly outing someone (questionable, but not egregious given you know, the public venue) making an off-color joke to 'she got these people fired'.
Their boss finding out what they said got them fired. Because what they said wasn't a... | The person being fired is a direct consequence of her tweet and/or blog post. She has thousands of followers. It isn't likely she thought nothing would come of it. |
Wow, what a complete shitbag (DPR = Dread Pirate Roberts):
DPR sent a message to "redandwhite" stating that "FriendlyChemist"
is "Causing me problems" and adding: "I would like to put a bounty on
his head if it's not too much trouble for you. What would be an
adequate amount to motivate you to find him?... | "the unsocial network" .. this movie is going to be big. |
I can't really treat this article seriously when his second graph illustrating "real" growth of startups requires that we are able to breach time-space continuum and go back in time. | I read a little way into the article to see whether he'd explain the lack of axis labels or just how the graph maps to anything real. Nope.
The article is reasonable but the loops just annoyed me too much. |
Only crazy people put sugar in cornbread:
10" round (iron) skillet
2 eggs
1 cup milk
1/4 cup cooking oil
3/4 teaspoon salt
4 teaspoons baking powder (not baking soda)
1 cup yellow cornmeal
1 cup unbleached white flour (or 1/2 whole wheat + 1/2 white)
Preheat oven to 400 degrees:
In a large bowl, beat together the eggs,... | Southerners are never averse to sugar. |
I actually support "vicious" speedbumps. People regularly drive 40 mph on my road which has official speed limit of 25 mph.
Instead of spending money policing main streets, I support draconian camera-driven enforcement on side streets.
Make unmarked google-maps-like cars with high quality cameras and software. Park it ... | I take it that you don't live in a place that has winter (speed bumps == ice humps) or have back pain. |
I am very surprised the article doesn't mention the american "shoot-to-kill" policy, despite the fact it gives the perfect example of how this policy is overkill (pun intended). If a knife-yielding attacker runs toward you, police in other countries (say western Europe) will shoot at the legs to NOT kill the attacker b... | I saw someone asked about this (sorry, can't remember who) in an interview after one of the many recent shootings and he said that in a scenario where deadly force is not required, the gun should not be used at all.
It makes a lot of sense and I can only imagine the lawsuits and riots we'd have here if police were allo... |
I violated Responsible Reading Of The Internet Rule #1 and accidentally looked at the comments. I am having a hard time reconciling the vehement anti-net-neutrality anti-government hair-on-fire screaming there with the reasoned discussion and general attitude here---I would have thought the majority of readers of Wire... | You thought Wired readers were as naive and as communist as you and you're disappointed they are smarter and more cynical. Boo. Hoo.
There's no reasoned discussion in HN as discussions get downvoted. There's only a huge circle back-patting which your comment is a part of. |
I still can't justify anything better than my $10 Casio Bin Laden watch.
There is literally nothing that has an advantage over it for me. Status and cost mean nothing.
I think the smart watch is purely an example of conspicuous consumption, nothing more. | > Status and cost mean nothing.
Saying status does not matter is of course an attempt to signal high status. No one's out of the status game. |
I'm all aboard with being pleasant and respectful of others, but find some aspects of this distasteful. Specifically, the portions of the author's "politeness" that involve performance, or adhering to a script I find off-putting. For example:
"Just ask the other person what they do, and right after they tell you, say... | > I think one can be both respectful and charming without having to fall back on a script and cheapen the interaction.
Sure, one can be. But what about with people you find incredibly boring or distasteful? Usually we'd just choose not to interact with those people, but that's not being charming. |
Regardless of your ideological background, you cannot possibly assert the U.S economy is healthy.
0% interest rate for several years is not healthy.
QE is not healthy.
100+ % debt:GDP ration is not healthy.
Inflating assets is not healthy.
A vanishing middle-class is not healthy. | Cherry picking much? |
I'm glad that my LBG friends can now marry anywhere. But damn, Scalia's counter opinion (and Roberts' opinion) strike me as well-considered and well-argued in the 2nd half of http://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/14pdf/14-556_3204.pdf . In brief, their view was that resolving this issue in the courts erodes the democrat... | Should the courts have waited for the state legislatures in the deep south to desegregate schools? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brown_v._Board_of_Education#/m...
Should the courts have waited for the state legislatures in the deep south to legalize interracial marriage? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interracial_marr... |
I'm glad that my LBG friends can now marry anywhere. But damn, Scalia's counter opinion (and Roberts' opinion) strike me as well-considered and well-argued in the 2nd half of http://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/14pdf/14-556_3204.pdf . In brief, their view was that resolving this issue in the courts erodes the democrat... | > In brief, their view was that resolving this issue in the courts erodes the democratic process.
That the issue made it to the supreme court shows that it is following the democratic process laid out in the constitution. If it has to be decided on by SCOTUS, the issue has already been through a number of other checks ... |
Over the last decade, the distributed system nature of modern server hardware internals has become painfully evident in how software architectures scale on a single machine. The traditional approaches -- multithreading, locking, lock-free structures, etc -- are all forms of coordination and agreement in a distributed s... | > one process per core, each locked to a single core; use locked local RAM only (effectively limiting NUMA); direct dedicated network queue (bypass kernel); direct storage I/O (bypass kernel)
I have no idea how to do any of these things. What are the system/api calls to lock a process to a kernel? How do you bypass ker... |
Over this past weekend I had the idea to build a sort of link shortener but with a payment system built-in. There have been many times in the past where I wanted to share a link - on Twitter or just through IM with a few friends - but did not want to go through the overhead of setting up a whole store.
So I built Gumro... | I've tried it and purchased on my own link.
1) How soon until the money reaches PayPal?
2) There are no assurances that the CC data is safe. It looks to be sent over HTTPS, but you're assumed to be trusted. |
I know this is just anecdotal coincidence (and not really that interesting to most people other than myself) but today when I weighed myself I had my ideal body weight for the first time in my life. This is after following a low carb diet for six months and losing 50 pounds... so throw another vote in the "yes, low car... | The slow carb thing is fine (better than atkins, keto, high fat, etc) but still probably overly restrictive. I think what remains easier and possibly better for almost everyone is 1) eat in moderation, 2) avoid processed foods and 3) be minimally active (ie, 10 miles of walking per week). |
Not trying to be a problem here, but what problem does this solve? Why does someone undertake to make a new desktop environment? Is XFce/Kde/gnome/cinammon/what-have-you not enough? | I don't like Gnome3 or KDE. I just need a bottom panel. I'm already used with configuring Openbox, LXDE is just a layer on top of that.
If LXDE wouldn't exist, I would just use XFCE. |
HN'ers asking why this isn't a cell phone app take note - this exemplifies why we (geeks) don't make good use cases for consumer tech and we should always be careful looking to our own habits and values when in a Product Development role.
We're rarely the target customer and rarely behave like "average Joe". We're natu... | To some extent, though. When I'm home, my mother gets extremely frustrated (still!) that there isn't one remote that does everything. |
>Companies that support remote workers and do it well seem to have a huge leg up on the competition.
I'm a remote worker and I'm definitely spoiled by not having to deal with open office plans and disruptions.
That said, I see no evidence that the article's statement is true. (I want it to be true, but that doesn't ch... | I don't really see it being true yet but I think it's coming.
Right now if you're based in SV you can hire the best talent in the world, pay them a fortune and build something great. Investors are reluctant to touch anyone outside of that bubble.
With lack of housing (and no more construction virtually) alongside bette... |
I'm a tad frustrated. I love Apple and the Mac OS, but sometimes it really gets to be that the Mac space is a one supplier game. Apple has decided for me that I like glossy screens. I was pretty sure I hated them, but I guess Apple must be right. I also hate real buttons I guess. I'm looking forward to when Apple ... | Why don't you buy the last generation of Macbook Pro which was the best machine until yesterday and it will have all the features you want(matte screen, real button, firewire) and you'll save a ton of cash if you go refurb.
http://store.apple.com/1-800-MY-APPLE/WebObjects/AppleStore.... |
I don't get it— do these people hit more often than they miss? Why do we still listen to them? | They see traffic again on a list published back in 2006. Thats the target. Not to publish accurate stories. |
Great idea; shame about the name.
Here's the problem with using words like "bro" (however jokingly): the problem is not with what you[0] are thinking when you read the word "bro", but with what other people, especially newcomers, are thinking. The locker-room atmosphere that stuff like this creates is a huge barrier t... | I'd have named them "spartan" pages.
The name is a LOT more sexist, but few people would realise (spartans famously didn't think highly of wom¹), but it also has the metaphorical meaning of being b¹-bones, which is what these pages are. But that name is seven whole letters and that's harder to type than m¹, so I'd abbr... |
Great idea; shame about the name.
Here's the problem with using words like "bro" (however jokingly): the problem is not with what you[0] are thinking when you read the word "bro", but with what other people, especially newcomers, are thinking. The locker-room atmosphere that stuff like this creates is a huge barrier t... | So if we name them girlpages will that have the affect of attracting more women into tech? |
If you thought I was insufferable before... | Congrats, Thomas. I'm glad to you have you around. |
Copied from the other thread, because it bears repeating:
I think it's important to keep in mind that the 12 vote margin is comfortable for Amash and supporters of new NSA restrictions and uncomfortable for its defenders.
Here's why: opponents of Amash wielded an argument that "split the vote". Representatives who vote... | Agreed. This is the closest vote on anything related to the Patriot Act in a long time; and the bipartisan support is very encouraging. |
> Tesla are a sideshow and we desperately need to stop talking about them, because they're harming efforts to improve energy efficiency.
Completely disagree. Tesla is, I think, unquestionably the most impactful company in the game, including GE and Nissan. For two reasons.
First, before Tesla people thought of electr... | Their critical product is their battery technology. It is second to none, in a business where the battery is everything.
vs
As to the article proper: it seems to me that running down your car is a pretty simple problem to engineer away.
So, on the one hand you say that their battery technology is in advance of everyone... |
One thing I always think about brain emulation/mind uploading/strong AI research is we need an legal/ethical framework in place before we get there.
I still think it's far off, but not everyone does.
If you believe consciousness is a property of running a brain or sufficiently advanced brain model, at what point are yo... | You raise a great point. Definitely agree on the fact that legal / ethical frameworks are required.
However, it might be very hard to do without knowing what the emulated "being" looks like. Its hard to imagine placing legalities and ethics on something whose powers (and possibly, limitations) are absolutely unknown. C... |
My wife has been failing to lose weight for several months, she is literally weighing everything she eats and recording calories (~1200/day), plus doing a several hours of quite intense exercise (stairs, etc) per week yet has hit a plateau for well over a month - any advice, things to read? (Note: she "can't" do low c... | Bullshit. This is 100% bullshit. If she is on ~1200/day she would be losing weight. That is how physics works. My advice is stop lying or tell your wife to stop lying. |
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